Deborah Walker

Change Your Career With a Better Resume

One of the toughest career challenges is changing occupations or industries, especially if you have spent decades in your profession. If you are in the midst of a career change you've no doubt experienced the frustration of trying to gain interviews. Af... Read >

Resume Red FlagsTen Reasons Your Resume Gets the Cold Shoulder

If your resume has been floating around in cyber space without a nibble from prospective employers your frustration level has probably reached all-time high. There could be identifiable reasons your resume is getting ignored. Here are ten top resume red... Read >

How To Get Recruiters To Help You In Your Job Search

Recruiters can be of tremendous help in your job search. Most often they are the gate keepers to the first interview. Gaining their help gives you a big advantage in today's competitive job market. Recruiters fall into two basic categories. Either they... Read >

Win a Second Interview With a Great Thank You Note

In today's highly competitive job market employers are interviewing more candidates per job opening, making it even more difficult to stand out as the preferred candidate. Just as your resume helped you get the first interview, your post-interview thank ... Read >

Move Up In Your Career With a Resume That Says "Can Do!"

Do your career ambitions include a promotion to greater responsibilities? Are your efforts to move into management getting you no where in the job market? You are not alone. One of the most common career challenges is moving up the corporate ladder. A... Read >

Three Ways to Reduce Job-Search Stress

Conducting a job search is one of the most stressful things you'll ever do. In fact it ranks right up with losing a spouse or bringing home a new baby as the most stressful times in life. Stress in a job search is unavoidable, but there are things you c... Read >

Three Tips to Help Recruiters Find You

The first step toward a new and better job is when a recruiter calls you. The goal of every job seeker is to capture the eye of a recruiter who will invite them to interview for a job. But with competition for jobs at an all time high the chances of capt... Read >

Is The Kyoto Protocol a Failure of Political Will?

The Kyoto Protocol is still considered as among the greatest achievements in the initiatives to curtail global warming, although it can be a spectacular failure. Launched in the winter of 1997, the protocol was designed to establish a broad agreement b... Read >

How To Make a Great First Impression In a Job Interview

The first few minutes of a job interview are critically important for creating a good first impression. In fact, the first 30 seconds can make you or break you. Interviewers gather clues about you based on the way you look, how you shake hands, the eye ... Read >

Top Five Interview Questions and How to Answer Them

With interviews few and far between there is no such thing as a "practice" interview. Your interview skills must be perfect the first time and every time you interview. While there is no way to anticipate every question you may be asked, there are some ... Read >

Turn Your Career Challenges Into Resume Achievements

Accomplishments are an important part of your resume. They set you apart from your competition and give potential employers a reason to consider you above others with similar qualifications. Most people, however, find it difficult to write resume achieve... Read >

Are You On the Right Career Path?

If you are unhappy with your job chances are your career focus needs adjusting. Whether you've worked in your field for 20 years or five, anyone can find themselves on a career path that leads to dissatisfaction, frustration and less-than-adequate earning... Read >

"So Why Should We Hire You?"

If you are currently in a job search chances are you've been asked that question already. Undoubtedly, it is the most feared interview question, but one of the most common. It pays to be ready to answer it. helps to understand that the question is an inv... Read >

10 Tips For a Reader-Friendly Resume

Your resume must capture the reader's attention within the first 15 seconds or risk being lost in the reject pile. One key success factor for your resume is its readability, that is, how easily and quickly the reader can absorb your information without l... Read >

Three Rules for a Great Sales Resume

Average sales people are a dime a dozen, but great sales people are hard to find. Unfortunately the best sales professionals usually aren't the best resume writers. They are busy making the sale and seldom take time to update their resume with their bes... Read >