For many of our high school and college-age customers, we’re in the home stretch before graduation and summer break. If your summer career or internship plans are not finalized yet, OptimalResume has features to help with the details of your resume: Document Cloning – A well-written resume is a beautiful thing, but a well-written resume [...]
OptimalResume provides a wealth of resume writing assistance, and one of the most useful tools in our Resume Builder is the Action Verbs tool. The Action Verbs tool is like a resume thesaurus, containing verbs and suggestions to enhance your sentences and bullet points. Although useful in all sections of the resume, customers have found [...]
“So, what exactly do I say in a Video Resume?” Outside of technical support inquiries, this is the #1 question we receive on Video Resume. This question is certainly not unfounded – Video Resumes are relatively new to job searches, and resources on recording a Video Resume are not as prevalent. To help users compose [...]
Recently in our LinkedIn group, Optimal’s founder posted a list of actual interview comments made by job seekers which resulted in them not getting a call back from the recruiter. We’ve taken a few of these quotes and dissected them further to discuss just why they’re not appropriate for a first interview: “What does your [...]
Portfolios are an excellent way for employers to learn about a candidate beyond their traditional resume. By showcasing uploaded files and media, portfolios can help employers gauge the quality of your contributions to previous employers or organizations. Because they provide a more detailed look at past work, portfolios can help you stand out from other [...]
Career fairs are a valuable opportunity to meet and interact with potential employers. In a single career fair, you could make dozens of first impressions with employers! And boy do those first impressions need to count, because you’re one of hundreds of visitors to that employer’s booth. Nope, no pressure at all. Ok, so career [...]
Ever have an employer say “We’ll call you in a few days”, only to hear nothing back at all? So has pretty much every job seeker. It’s a very frustrating phenomenon, but why does it happen in the first place? With an increasing number of applicants per job posting, employers struggle to handle the workload. [...]
While learning how to write a cover letter as an undergrad, I realized that everyone has a different Achilles’ Heel in their letter. Some people have trouble supplementing the letter with a content paragraph. Some don’t know when or how to close a letter. Personally, I’m really bad with letter introductions; particularly in figuring out [...]
Today, we are pleased to announce the newest addition to our award-winning content – Resumes for Dogs. For years, Optimal Resume has provided state-of-the-art assistance to human job seekers through our online tools. But we’ve noticed a developing need among our canine customers for more specialized content. According to Optimal’s founder, “Resumes for dogs is [...]
There’s been some buzz lately about this article, which discusses a trend in employers requesting login information to candidates’ Facebook profiles. The controversy is easy to understand – Facebook profiles are commonly used to manage one’s personal life, and while many profiles are publicly available, individual users reserve the right to make that information available [...]
