Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. This week, I thought I would investigate the employment impact of the most recent Olympic games in the U.S. This chart shows employment spike that occurred during the 1992 Atlanta summer games and […]
Each Sunday, #CareerGravity sends our heaviest articles of the week to our newsletter subscribers. Here’s our newsletter for the week of 29-July: Most Common Resume Mistakes (Chart of the Week) Typos top the list. Doh! Your resume should have no mistakes whatsoever, let alone typos. It’s a competitive job market, more so than in the […]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. In CareerBuilder’s annual survey, they asked 2,298 hiring managers a series of questions about job applicants. This chart shows the nine most commonly cited resume mistakes they see on a regular basis.
In CareerBuilder’s annual survey, they asked 2,298 hiring managers a series of questions about job applicants. One of those questions asked them to share the most memorable and unusual resume mistakes that came across their desk. Candidate called himself a genius and invited the hiring manager to interview him at his apartment. Candidate’s cover letter talked about […]
In CareerBuilder’s annual survey, they asked 2,298 hiring managers a series of questions about job applicants. One of those questions asked them to recount the most creative resumes that stood out in their memories. Here are their top 6: Candidate sent his resume in the form of an oversized Rubik’s Cube, where you had to push […]
