Top 5 Ways to Help Your Recruiter Help You
Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by bcoin in Career Advice, Job Hunting News
Our Resume Writers are real-time Recruiters working every day to fill job openings for hiring managers across various industries. We polled our team to see what are the Top 5 most important things a job seeker can do to help make it easy on their Recruiter to give them the best chance of landing key [...]
Resume Writing Secret #1
Posted on 13. Feb, 2009 by Morgan in Job Hunting News, Resume Formatting, Resume Tips, Resume Writing
I’m about to share with you arguably the single most important secret to making your resume stand out from the crowd. Out of all the resume writing tips and tricks I believe that this one is critical from getting out of the pile and on to the short list for a job interview. The biggest [...]
6 Words that can kill your interview chances
Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by Morgan in Job Hunting News, Resume Tips, Resume Writing
I just finished reading a great post called “6 Words That Make Your Resume Suck” that highlights some of the most common errors that people make when they’re writing their resume. And while they frame the article around the six words what they’re really getting down to is choosing results-oriented language over and above [...]
Resume Review Service: Half-off
Posted on 26. Jan, 2009 by Morgan in Company News
It’s my birthday this weekend and to celebrate we’re giving away our standard resume review service for half-off its low, $39.95 price. That’s right, it will cost you less than $20 to get your resume reviewed. Simply use this code: RDHALF0209 at check out to get your discount. Remember, it’s only on our standard resume [...]
Resume Format Tip: Company descriptions
Posted on 24. Jan, 2009 by Morgan in Job Hunting News, Resume Formatting, Resume Tips
If you’re like most of us, one or more of your jobs has been for a company outside of the Fortune 1000. This reality requires you to take this important fact in to consideration: the recruiter or HR manager doesn’t know anything about this company. If you’ve worked for Apple and Google and GE all [...]
Another Satisfied Customer
Posted on 27. Dec, 2008 by Morgan in Company News
Here at Resume Donkey we’re always happy when we get positive feedback about the work we do. We’re especially proud when folks who’ve felt let down by more expensive services feel like the get great value out of our affordable resume review service.
Here’s the latest kudo for Resume Donkey’s resume review service:
Morgan and ResumeDonkey are [...]
What’s the point of your resume?
Posted on 27. Dec, 2008 by Morgan in Job Hunting News, Resume Tips
Pop quiz hot shot: What’s the purpose of your resume?
The answer after the jump.
If you don’t know the purpose of your resume how can it work for you? The simple answer is that it can’t. Without knowing what your resume is supposed to do you’ll be unable to achieve the results you’re looking for with [...]
Release: Resume Donkey Launches New Resume Review Service
Posted on 17. Dec, 2008 by Morgan in Company News
Here’s our press release that went out today announcing the launch of our company!
Service offers cost-effective way for job hunters to get a leg up on the competition for scarce employment opportunities
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – December 17, 2008 – Resume Donkey, the dead-serious online resume review service with the funny name, today announced the launch [...]
Resume Writing Tips Part 4: Contact Information
Posted on 16. Dec, 2008 by Morgan in Job Hunting News, Resume Formatting, Resume Tips, Resume Writing
In the first three parts of our resume writing tips series we covered some of the basic building blocks to writing a successful resume:
Resume Spelling
Resume Formatting
Resume Readability
Today we’re going to cover off the last basic building block of resume writing. It’s the no-brainer of the group: contact information. If there is anything that should be [...]
Resume Writing Tips Part 3 – Readability
Posted on 11. Dec, 2008 by Morgan in Job Hunting News, Resume Formatting, Resume Tips, Resume Writing
We continue on our series of resume writing tips with part 3, readability. In parts one and two or resume writing tips we discussed other essentials, common resume spelling errors and resume formatting. In this post I want to talk about improving the readability of your resume. This is a little more subjective than the [...]