Your Career: The multimedia resume

After Ryan Dougherty sent out about 70 traditional resumes to prospective employers and got no responses, he decided he needed to shake things up.

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Graduation gifts for job hunting

You’ve just graduated from college. B-bye finals and all-nighters. Time for the real world. And that means using some tech tools that can help you in your search for a job.

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How job seekers can get their foot in the door

Landing an interview is becoming as rare these days as a night without a presidential debate.

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Here are the worst 10 boilerplate phrases -- the ones to seek out and destroy in your resume as soon as possible:

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No matter how effective your resume or how fine your interviewing skills your references can be the game changer. Here are some lessons and tactics that give you the edge on references in today's competitive market.

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Season of Nonviolence 2009 |Day 56: Self-Sufficiency

Day 56 -- SELF-SUFFICIENCY (Mar. 26) People need the dignity of work and the opportunity to provide for themselves and their families. Economic self-sufficiency is a requirement for a nonviolent world.

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Highly educated workers were the most likely to telecommute, according to the BLS study. If telecommuting is your goal, career training can be a good first step.

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In October of this year the unemployment rate grew 0.4% to 6.5%, its highest rate in 14 years. Ten million Americans are now unemployed: 240,000 people lost their jobs in October, and 284,000 lost their jobs in September.

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The ugly economy came home to roost on Kyle's head in the form of a pink slip, so we read with great interest his post at Amateur Asset Allocator called "11 things to do immediately when you get laid off."

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Most people embellish their resumes.

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The frustration of not getting any calls back together with the stress at home could of devastated me. But then I found a great piece of software where I learned how to make a resume.

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Sequence Systems, The Premier Executive Search and Staffing Firm dedicated to the environmental, engineering and light industrial industries has announced the launching of it new website presence.

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1. Spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. "If you are careless enough to send out this most important document with a mistake ...

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For $10 a month, ReputationDefender.com will search your name everywhere -- even "beyond Google" -- including password-protected sites, and give a report of their findings.

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These are fun to read.

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Is Isabont just a nice Web2.0 interface covering an Excel spreadsheet or a real time-saving job search organizer?

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You attempt to wade through an ocean of applicants and determine who might actually match your needs while insuring that you meet all compliance restriction. You may never get around to your sourcing needs.

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Résumés From Hell... and 10 Lessons They Teach Us

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If they do away with the resume and interview, how are people going to be hired? Is everything going to be based on how well the candidates fill out forms? I'm sure there are people who excel at this, but does it really tell you much about them except that their good at forms? At …

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Job hunting today, aside from networking, consists of putting your resume on hundreds of job boards and hoping for the best. Recruiters and companies search these boards looking for the proper buzz words.

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Dylan Hunter, 34, of Northborough, Mass., notes on his resume that he received a master's degree in business administration from Babson College, in Wellesley, Mass., in 1999 and graduated magna cum laude.

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hResume - Microformats and Job Search 2.0

As part of what I am calling Job Search 2.0 - there is a push for creating a standardized way for people to control their resume data.

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