How to Choose Effective Keywords to Improve Your Resume’s Results

Resume keywords are one of the simplest and most important steps in your resume development—whether you’re developing a sales resume, technical resume, or some other focus for your resume document. Resume keywords are words and phrases that the person who writes a job description uses to describe the requirements for a particular position. Check out this sample job description: “Office assistant needed for busy appliance repair business. Pleasant phone voice and excellent customer services skills required. Must be proficient in MS Office, including Word, Access, Excel, and PowerPoint.”...

Identify Meaningful, Motivating Career Change Options

Career change: When you go through the steps involved in a career change, you want the result to be work that you feel passionate about. In terms of your career change, however, I’ll be referring to passions—or “passion zones”—as those interesting industries in the world of work that are especially meaningful or intriguing to you. For instance, one of my passion zones is bike riding. I love doing it, I love how good it is for me, and I’m willing to endure hour after hour of physical effort to stay skilled and in shape. A few of my other passion zones are cooking, reading, career counseling,...

Career Change: Conduct Experiments to Bridge into Your New Career

Having an idea about the career change you want to make is only half of the battle. You can greatly increase your chances for career change success by executing a number of motivating, insightful experiments about interesting careers that are appealing to you. Career change experiments can range from simple, two-minute exercises that introduce you to important tidbits of information about that specialty, to more involved activities that may take several months to complete and allow you to immerse yourself to determine if a career is really right for you. Following are a list of sample career...

100 Power Words to Build Your Resume