1st Rate Blog

Whiners Need Not Apply

Throughout my 14 years as a professional resume writer, I've done quite a bit of volunteer work at various job search clubs and halfway houses. Job search clubs are a great idea because when you're low on cash and need help honing your job search skills, you can get...

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Work Camping from an RV

According to NBC News more and more people are buying RVs. Their "On the Road Again" story points out that RV purchases are a sign that the economy is rebounding because RVs typically been a discretionary purchase. In other words, retirees and those with deep pockets...

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5 Telltale Signs Your Resume is Outdated

If you've been adding new information to a resume you created years ago, there's a good chance it's out of date. Sure it may have worked well for you in 2005, but will it work today? Maybe. Maybe not, depending on how out of date the formatting was on that first...

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Don’t Let Facebook Ruin Your Career

Last week I was at a trade show in Las Vegas chatting with some fellow vendors about Facebook. The guy I was talking to at our booth "doesn't do Facebook" and I understand why. I mentioned that someone in my list of Facebook Friends had been going through a public...

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Should you Link Out of Linked In?

A conversation was started with one of my Facebook friends today questioning the validity of Linkedin. "to me it's pointless," he wrote, and was asking for help on how to shut down his account and "link out." Because my friend has a heap of influential and quite funny...

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