A Day in the Life of…
An IT Recruiter
Should a resume be pretty or plain?
Oct 14th
While this post is covering what seems to be a very obvious topic, it has been prompted by a resume I recently recieved which had been typed in entirely blue text.
If you are sending a resume to a recruitment agency OR in response to an advertised vacancy it is really important that it be as [...]
Should you customise your resume for each job application?
Oct 9th
The short answer to this is “Yes”…. but again I will preface this post by pointing out that my opinions are specific to someone who works as a recruiter, reading resumes all day.
No two jobs you apply for are the same (generally speaking)… even if the differences are only slight.
The important thing to look at [...]
Resume Structure – Back to Basics?
Oct 7th
My suggestions on how to structure your resume and what information to include have come from spending hours reading through resumes as part of my job. This is what I do for a living. So these are what make it easier for me (and possibly people like me) to read and understand resumes.