Tag: RESUME

Hey there, motivated team player with incredible problem solving skills! Are you looking for a job? Well, you probably won't find one -- at least, not using those words. Along with "results-oriented," "innovative" and "fast-paced" (your writer being guilty of that one, herself), the aforementioned are among the ten most overused words on professional networking site LinkedIn. LinkedIn's ...

The economy may be showing signs of improvement, but it's still hard out there for job seekers. If you're going to get hired in today, you'll have to get noticed first. Inventive job hunters, then, are turning to the Web and dreaming up some rather innovative techniques to make their resumes stand out. The good people at the Huffington Post (or HuffPo, to its friends) have assembled a slide ...

While the rest of the job-seeking world is busy uploading pristine, video-enhanced resumes or marketing themselves on Twitter, one brainiac at MIT has decided to set his CV apart from the self-marketing masses -- with a little help from Microsoft Paint. Flagrantly disregarding all ladder-climbing protocol, computer science PhD grad Eugene Hsu recently created a surprisingly coherent resume ...