Comments on: Top 10 Tips for Getting Your Resume Read http://babyboomertalkonline.com/2009/top-10-tips-for-getting-your-resume-read/ This blog is a positive affirmation of our lives as boomers. We all bombarded daily by media with all the bad news. I/we will always provide a positive slant to our daily lives. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:42:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Carleen MacKay http://babyboomertalkonline.com/2009/top-10-tips-for-getting-your-resume-read/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Carleen MacKay Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:56:38 +0000 http://babyboomertalkonline.com/?p=64#comment-10 Ah....the resume...otherwise known as the best screening out tool ever devised. Resumes are an important part of any marketing toolkit but, in my opinion, not the most important tool in that kit. I like biographies for networking, websites for amplifying information and demonstrating current skills, succinct brands for twitter and signature lines, blogs such as this one and more... Knowing when and where to use well-crafted resumes is an art and a learned skill. As for learning to deal with bias and myths (#7 and #8), take a look at the "myth cards" on our website. We researched the facts guaranteed to overcome the "Big O's" - overqualified, overage, overpaid, over (fill in the blank). Mahalo and Aloha....Ageless in America Ah….the resume…otherwise known as the best screening out tool ever devised. Resumes are an important part of any marketing toolkit but, in my opinion, not the most important tool in that kit. I like biographies for networking, websites for amplifying information and demonstrating current skills, succinct brands for twitter and signature lines, blogs such as this one and more…

Knowing when and where to use well-crafted resumes is an art and a learned skill.

As for learning to deal with bias and myths (#7 and #8), take a look at the “myth cards” on our website. We researched the facts guaranteed to overcome the “Big O’s” – overqualified, overage, overpaid, over (fill in the blank).

Mahalo and Aloha….Ageless in America

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