Career Advice
AfterCollege brings you Career Advice. This section includes articles on
writing good resumes, finding a job and contacting recruiters, as well as general career and industry information.
- Career interest assessment
AfterCollege, through JVIS.com, brings you a career interest assessment test. The test is an on-line version of the well known and highly regarded Jackson Vocational Interest Survey (JVIS), and provides a comprehensive picture of your career interests.
- How to Become Comfortable Networking
Mac Carter feels like a hero. As a HR administrator for a nationwide retailer, he has opportunities to serve people in a variety of capacities. But never has he felt better
about helping someone than he does now....
- Is your Resume "Byte-Able"?
Within the past few years there has been a complete re-organization of the rules for job hunting. It was less than ten years ago that applicant tracking technology came into common use. Today, it is estimated that well over 50% of large and medium organizations are using this technology....
- 15 Tips for Writing Winning Resumes
The thought of writing a resume intimidates almost anyone. It's difficult to know where to start or what to include. It can seem like an insurmountable task. Here are 15 tips to help you not only tackle the task, but also write a winning resume....
- Hypertext Resumes - Marketing Yourself Online
Do the best jobs always go to the superior candidate? Not necessarily! Often the best job offers are made not to the candidate with the best qualifications, but to the candidate who understands and utilizes the best job-searching techniques...
- How To Research Employers on the Internet
Crucial to a successful job search campaign is knowing how to research potential employers. The more you know about a company; their business objectives and goals; the better able you will be to communicate your value to them...
- What Is A Resume?
Depending on whom you talk to, a résumé may be viewed as the vehicle to securing your next job, or as an unnecessary nuisance. In both cases, this is information is wrong...
- Basic Principles Of A Good Resume
There's probably no aspect of your résumé more important to selling yourself to prospective employers than the benefits you've made to your previous employers...
- Resume Strategies That Increase Salaries...
The key to jump starting your career after graduation is to show how your education, internships, volunteer work, paid employment, involvement in associations, extracurricular activities, honors or awards relate to and support your career goals...
- Job Hunting 101: Related Experience
If you're a college student, presumably you (or your parents) are entertaining the thought that one day in the not-too-distant future, you will be gainfully employed...
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