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Hire Older Workers If You Want To Improve Your Workplace

Facts: Young people take things for granted. Don’t argue with me, it’s a fact of life.  We all take things for granted in our youth and don’t really regret it until we get older.  Again, don’t argue. I’m 46 now and for the past 6 years, I could have been a candidate for age discrimination […]

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Network to Get Work: Tips to Help You Network Better

Networking has been on my mind lately. It is a key piece in finding new jobs and opportunities. I think the perception of networking is being at a party or gathering and reciting your elevator pitch. (An elevator pitch is a quick summation of you and your value proposition in the time it takes on […]

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Convicted Felons Have No Place In The Workplace

Human Resources | Hiring Managers | Recruiters | Sourcers These people can be awfully judgey at times. Looking at all the expert resume and interview tips, most of them are just long lists of “Thou Shalt Nots” - or you will be banished to job hell.  “Don’t do this, don’t wear that, say this, use […]

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Let’s Breakdown Those Ridiculous Automatically Generated Responses from so called Top Companies.

I hope you are a regular reader of the ResumeCrusade because if you are you already know I try to do things a little different than most resume writers. I really try to get a feel of what my clients are going through today. One such client was so frustrated with the job search experience […]

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Recruiters Can Be Lazy Too

Recruiters Can Be Lazy Too Unfortunately, some recruiters will read the title and get really upset with me, they may even troll me on social media or drag me through the comment section, but the truth is some recruiters ARE lazy. And the lazy ones will probably never see this article because they are too […]

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Keep Your Head on a Swivel (Stay Woke)

Keep Your Head on a Swivel (Stay Woke) It’s December, 2016. Normally, at this time of the year, I do not have very many clients and I adjust for that, however, as we all know by now, 2016 has been and is like no other year in recent memory. This December, I have a few […]

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How to Prepare for a New Job Search in 2017

Well as you may know, in America, we have just elected a new President, who will be taking over January 20th 2017.  No matter how you feel about the President-Elect and his future administration, one thing remains constant – you want more in 2017. Many of you plan to stick it out for 2016, until after the holidays […]