We’re excited to be attending this year’s NC Workforce Development Partnership Conference! You can check out the details here, but the idea behind the conference is bringing workforce development professionals together to discuss the ongoing challenges facing job seekers, and methods, tools and best practices that could help. The conference theme couldn’t be more appropriate: [...]
If you couldn’t make it to one of our live Letter Builder trainings, don’t worry! We recorded it. Just click below to start watching. You can find our full video library on Vimeo or by clicking the “Resources & Tutorials” category. If you want to attend a live training, just click here to view our [...]
A guest post from regional sales manager, Shonna Nance. There are people out there who work every day, with every ounce of their energy to help job seekers find work. I met 32 of them this week. Kelly Giles, Todd Lempicke, and I volunteered to host a free workshop for North Carolina workforce professionals when [...]
If you couldn’t make this week’s webinar about Optimal’s plethora of online resources, don’t worry! Here’s a quick rundown of everything we covered. Success Kit – Accessed via the Help tab in the Optimal Administrative System. Lays out a marketing plan, and contains templates, flyers and more. Button Library – Accessed via the Optimal Administrative [...]
We know there are many workforce investment boards out there helping displaced workers. We know Optimal Resume can help them be more effective and efficient. We also know workforce investment boards aren’t immune to budget cuts and crunches. That’s why we’re offering a 30 percent discount on an annual subscription and setup fees when the [...]
Clearly we think online job searching tools and social media are the wave of the future (really, they’re here right now). It’s the reason we called the newest incarnation of our software Optimal 2.0. It’s imperative that job seekers understand the basics of social media and how it affects employers’ perceptions of them — both [...]
We’re getting ready to overhaul our Success Kit. If you’ve never seen it, here’s a link to the current kit. It’s full of advertising, PR and marketing tools to help you get the word out about Optimal Resume. We like the idea of the kit, but we think it could work better for you, and [...]
This week, we put a link to our YouTube help videos right on the user home page, in the “Connect with Optimal Resume” box. Users can access our Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube accounts, along with our blog from that central location. We also had a client post a link to our YouTube account right [...]
We’ve started uploading help videos to YouTube! So far, we have videos for the Resume Builder, but we’ll be posting additional videos for other modules soon. The video above details how to build a resume using a sample. Other videos discuss how to build a resume section by section and how to start from scratch. [...]
Guest post by OptimalResume.com quality assurance associate, Katie Lempicke. This week’s spotlight is a true story about an interview I had as a college senior: Last fall, I had a campus interview with a firm of about 50 employees. Inevitably, the conversation soon shifted to talk of my internship at Optimal Resume. As I began [...]
