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Your Skills Can Make All the Difference
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When you join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) you’ll become part of an independent, global movement to support a team of over 42,000 doctors, nurses, and logisticians as they provide emergency response and lifesaving medical care to those in crisis. Read More
Coach USA Cares Donates More Than Two Tons Of Food To Local Food Banks
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Coach USA Employee Food Drive Was Held In January
Paramus, New Jersey, February 19, 2020– Coach USA employees through the Coach USA Cares program donated more than two tons of food to local food banks where Coach USA has locations. The food drive is an annual event held during the month of January, since food banks are trying to restock from the holiday season.
10 Resume Errors that Recruiters Hate
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Recruiters see hundreds of resumes every day and as you would expect, there are some things that absolutely make them cringe. Many of those things are really entries that you can’t do anything about. You know, large gaps in your employment history, job jumping and so on. There are, however, some things that many people put on their CVs that are absolutely avoidable; things that will make every recruiter instantly lower your chances of getting through the screening process. Here are ten resume errors that recruiters hate and how to avoid them. Read More
How to Use a Summer Slowdown to Build Your Skill Set
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Calls that go unanswered, key contacts on vacation, an office full of summer interns taking care of the busywork. If your workplace experiences the summer slowdown that is typical for so many industries, and you find yourself with time on your hands, then get busy! It’s time to develop and expand your hard and soft skill sets.
Heading Back Into The Workforce? Here’s What’s Changed Recently
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If you’ve spent a few years out of the office, a lot has changed. Maybe you’ve spent a few years focusing on your children and decided it’s time to go back to work. Or maybe you’ve been working for yourself and decided an office job is going to provide more security for your family as your children mature. Lastly, you might be in need of additional income as raising your children gets more expensive, leading you to seek a dual-income from you and your spouse. These are all wonderful reasons for considering the change to go back to the office. Don’t look at your need to go back to work in a negative light, feeling as though you may have failed. You have not. In fact, it’s a majority case across the US. In 2014, Pew Research Center surveyed that nearly 46% of US families have both parents working full-time. With that number to have estimated increasing since then. Read More
7 Ways to Customize Your Resume to a Job Posting
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Even if they bear identical titles, no two jobs are the same. Hiring managers at different companies will have distinct needs, visions and challenges to address. If you want to get your resume noticed you need to take stock of these disparities so you can cater to them. In other words, you need to think about how to write a resume that speaks to the unique particulars of the job at hand and sells you as a perfect match.
Fortunately, that doesn’t mean you need to start from scratch every time you pursue a new opportunity. To save yourself precious hours, you should ideally build a base resume — a core template, of sorts — to work from during your job search. That way, you just need to rework the pertinent bits for each position you apply for. Not sure what kind of changes you should be making to customize your resume to a posting? Consider these seven tailoring tips. Read More
