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I’m currently unemployed after spending 2+ years on an assignment. Several other staffing agencies have been calling me wanting to present me for various assignments. One in particular agency has a job for me but they are asking for unreal information. My resume is full of contract jobs that go back many years and I’veRead more

I see all of these fancy designs in the newer versions of Microsoft Word. People have created resume templates with kinds of green, blue, brown, yellow, etc., colors in them. The word “Experience” may be yellow, for instance. The bulleted text may be black. Usually a lot of them have some silly square design atRead more

There are 500+ student organizations in my university, and they are all student-run, so that means there’s no way they could vertify that I was not part of the Anime Club, for instance.Read more

I see where a lot of resumes nowadays seem to be more plain looking and basically have the dates worked, position title and location. Then job duties aren’t bulleted on a lot of modern resumes. Instead, they seem to be typed out in sentence form to make small paragraphs of several sentences paraphrasing their jobRead more

Im 17 and have been working at Kroger for about 3 weeks now as a bagger. I just got hired somewhere else that pays a lot more. I would rather work at my new job that pays more rather then spend my hours at kroger making minimum wage. Should I still put my 2 weeksRead more

Mid-30’s, lots of experience in previous jobs related to logistics, mostly in retail. Some other jobs weren’t retail. I’ve got a year of corporate office experience doing clerical stuff, data entry of a huge client database. I don’t have a degree, just a high school diploma. A considerable amount of computer experience. I have beenRead more

I would just like to start off saying I have a pretty full resume. I have put down six months of volunteer experience, two sources of job experience (one as a target cashier and the other as a file clerk), my most recent education (being my second year of college while i am only 17)Read more

I didn’t graduate with a professional job like everyone else, and didn’t reach the class average salary.. although, my resume was stronger than most of my peers. I am struggling with an hourly job (production) that I applied for in my industry. They are not letting me work on easy jobs because they don’t trustRead more

I’m almost 19 and have never held a formal job. I’ve just been doing stuff like babysitting and mowing lawns for the past 6 years. A family friend offered to give me a reference saying that I worked for them cleaned their office, shredded paper and stuff, just something to make them think I haven’tRead more

If on an online job application it asks for a resume but I don’t have one, would it be wise to make one first? I’m 17 and applying at a fast food joint. Also, how exactly should I go about creating a resume? What do I use to make it?Read more