Resumes & Cover Letters
by Phil Stott | Published: Tuesday, May 07, 2013
A few years back, one of the resume buzz phrases du jour involved describing yourself with some variation of the following: "good/great/strong/effective multitasker." It had all the hallmarks of a great catchphrase—it sounded fresh and exciting, it conveyed a sense of its user as someone with their finger on the pulse, it had very few negative connotations, and it seemed to cover a lot of ground without actually saying anything at all. (Really: it can just as easily mean "capable of drinking coffee[...] Read More >>
by Cathy Vandewater | Published: Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Twitter is becoming the new job board—or so says the Wall Street Journal. The sprawling site, with its disjointed snippets of conversation, endless links and retweets, and tangled webs of followers can be tough to navigate. But master the waters, and you'll have world of opportunity on your hands. Here's why:
1. Links are clickable
Online resume? 6-second Vine video? LinkedIn profile? Work samples? Infographic? It's so easy to link to your stuff on Twitter, where employer mouses will be at the ready.[...] Read More >>
by Phil Stott | Published: Tuesday, April 16, 2013
If you're out of work, there's one major factor that can predict how successful you're likely to be in your job hunt: the length of time since you last held a job—with an almost mystical dividing line setting in at the six month period. A recent article in the Atlantic reported on a study that examined the callback rates to interviews for a set of fake resumes where the only major difference was the duration since the "candidate" had become unemployed. Here's the article's author, Matthew O'Brien,[...] Read More >>
by Vault Careers | Published: Tuesday, March 12, 2013
As a modern day career counselor, nothing is more fascinating to me than the opportunities that social media can give job seekers. Any of these online networking sites can lead to internship and job opportunities if you do it right. And when you’re doing it really right, the internship and job opportunities could actually come to you.
I’ve watched this happen to many students and heard countless stories of social media success in the job search. Every time, it’s just as amazing a story as the last.[...] Read More >>
by Vault Careers | Published: Friday, February 15, 2013
by Juliana Weiss-Roessler
A statistic came out a few years ago about how the first thing 70 percent of people do when looking for local businesses is fire up their browsers and head online to do a search. Pretty amazing, right? Not too long ago, Googling something was called “using the Yellow pages,” but now you’re lucky if you can find someone under 30 who knows what the Yellow Pages are.
How does this relate to you, your job search, and digital resumes? It’s pretty simple, really: every single[...] Read More >>
by Vault Careers | Published: Thursday, January 24, 2013
Sad news has been making the internet rounds this week: Aleksey Vayner, of Youtube, Gawker, and Ivygate fame has apparently died last week at the age of 29.
Don't recognize the name? Vayner, who later changed his last name to Stone after months of harassment, is the auteur of a video resume grandly titled, "Impossible Is Nothing." It features an interview with Vayner, as well as dramatic scenes of the then 23-year-old power lifting, catching air on a ski slope, slamming serves on the tennis court,[...] Read More >>
by Phil Stott | Published: Monday, January 07, 2013
It's the start of grad school application season and, like clockwork, the debate has rolled around again: is it even worth it to spend the next two years of your life pursuing the opportunity to put three little letters on your resume?
Once upon a time, the answer was a no-brainer: if you could get into an M.B.A. program, you did it, and came out the other side with a license to pick your job and print money.*
Nowadays, however, potential applicants are having to do the sort of cost-benefit analysis[...] Read More >>
by Vault Law Editors | Published: Thursday, January 03, 2013
How Overqualified Attorneys Can Market Themselves Competitively
by Diane Rifkin, Rifkin Consulting
We didn’t fall over the fiscal cliff, but our economy is still not on solid ground. As the economy still struggles forward, the legal community has seen some high profile law firm collapses that sent shockwaves through the industry. The legal industry is struggling and attorneys are struggling to find their place within the industry. When the only jobs you can find are new Associate positions, how[...] Read More >>
by Cathy Vandewater | Published: Friday, December 14, 2012
Ah, holiday parties. Harmless gatherings of merry-making. Or are they actually fields full of of conversational landmines?
Social stuff can always be tough when you don't really want to talk about your job situation. After all, if you don't have anything nice to say...
But parties can be especially rough around the holidays, when people you haven't seen all year want to catch up and ask all kinds of probing, judgmental questions. So what do you do? Get sloshed and cry to your uncle's coworker that[...] Read More >>
by Vault Careers | Published: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
From The Monitor Group and Dewey & LeBoeuf bankrupcies to a simple act of ingenuity at Krispy Kreme donuts, 2012 has been a big year in career news.
Revisit some of your favorite stories and advice blogs with our list of Vault's Top Read blogs of the year, 2012:
1. 6 Trickiest Interview Questions and How to Nail Them
Guesstimates and brainteasers are two types of interview questions commonly asked by Wall Street firms, consulting firms, and tech firms. They're also the types of questions that[...] Read More >>
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