New Email Templates Available for Admins

Are you searching for email marketing inspiration for your users?  If not, we think you will be soon.  We recently added over 15 new email templates into the Admin System!  In addition, many of the existing templates have been updated to incorporate more relevant information about our products and services.  These email templates are a [...]

Introducing: New Portfolio Templates

Last week, we added a selection of new templates to our Portfolio Builder!  These templates demonstrate unique portfolio layouts, showing job seekers how to best organize their files.  Like our resume and letter templates, portfolio templates are a great solution for a job seeker who may not be familiar with the program or with creating [...]

OptimalResume summer checklist

Summer is the perfect time to maintain your OptimalResume website. That’s why our awesome support team put together this handy checklist and will teach you even more about upgrading your site as the summer continues! 1. June 22 – July 5: Inform Optimal of any changes in your office Help us keep our records up [...]

Optimal Poland!

Ever wondered how Optimal software comes together? A big part of it has to do with our development team in Warsaw, Poland! Recently our CEO and CTO were in Warsaw to work on our latest development projects, and they took the picture below. From left to right, we have Patryk Majewski, Michal Kijas, Piotr Grzegorzewski, [...]

Using the Review Center in OptimalResume

Critiquing professional documents like resumes and cover letters can be extremely time consuming for career counselors.  To standardize and simplify the process, OptimalResume introduced the Review Center feature in 2009.  The Review Center is a free, optional feature that allows administrators to critique resumes, cover letters, mock interviews, and even video resumes from a single [...]

Mike Callahan of UM Dearborn College of Business: February Impact Spotlight

This month we shine the Impact Spotlight on Mike Callahan from the College of Business at University of Michigan – Dearborn.  Mike is originally from Butte, Montana, and grew up in the same town as Evel Knievel.  In fact, Mike’s father was Evel’s official photographer in those days.  How cool is that? Perhaps inspired by [...]

Video resume: a “Super” job search idea

We are merely days away from the most watched television event of the year:  the Super Bowl.  The big game has turned into an unofficial national holiday, as fans of the Packers, Steelers, and commercials with talking babies watch en mass. In 2010, over 100 million Americans watched the New Orleans Saints claim the first [...]

Dear “Insert Name Here”- Thank you for your time…

Greetings, all, and welcome to the second part of my Optimal Resume adventure! This week, I tackled writing a genuine, professional-yet-personal letter using Optimal Resume’s handy toolbox. Since I already had some experience in this department, I went into this challenge with the dukes up a little bit – could Optimal Resume help me strike [...]

What is an electronic resume, and why do I need one?

If you’ve ever tried to paste your resume into the body of an e-mail (especially in plain-text formats) you know your formatting — bold, italics, even bullets — don’t work. That’s when you need an electronic resume. The trick to e-mailing with ease is to create a plain text (the file extension .txt) or rich [...]

Letter Builder Tutorial

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 [...]

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