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Tandem Powered offers a full suite of Professional Resume Writing, Career Development, and HR / Business Consulting services.
Our blog and podcast dive into the real stories and everyday strategies behind building a No Vacation Required life. We challenge outdated norms, share fresh perspectives, and explore what it means to find fulfillment right now—in a world that rarely makes it easy.
If you are happily employed, you have probably let your resume languish in the dark, cold recesses of your computer’s "documents" folder. That’s understandable – being employed means you don’t have to worry about your resume, right? Wrong.
Read MoreStruggling to find work (or a career) that fits. In today's post, I ask you to ponder these three questions: 1) What things do you do that don't seem like work at all? 2) What differentiates you? What makes you different? 3) How do you see yourself making a difference in the world?
Read MoreQ: I enjoyed your entry on the reality of resumes and searching for a job. As frustrating as I know it all is, I think the entry is very true. I just can’t get past the fact that I have an impressive work history, and I bring a lot of talent and ideas to the table. Why won't the hiring system work in my favor?!
Read MoreI have recently seen some articles – and heard a lot of talk – claiming that the resume is dead. The assertions range from “the bio is king” to “LinkedIn has killed the resume.” While these statement are certainly eye catching, they aren’t telling the whole story.
Read MoreLately, I've been participating in a forum on which responders are talking about loving Friday evening and dreading Sunday evening, which signals the work week ahead. I hear from far too many people who have no passion for what they do. People who – day after day and year after year – slog through a series of unfulfilling jobs that mean nothing to them.
Read MoreI have the opportunity to review a lot of resumes, so I have a front seat to emerging trends. Two increasingly popular approaches are to include Quick Response (QR) Codes and company logos on resumes. Both of these ideas make sense on the surface, but neither holds up when one really considers what's most important - the resume's audience.
Read MoreToying with the definition of Entry Level isn't an entirely new concept but, yes, there's more of it going on.
Read MoreI just read an e-mail that is very common in my inbox. This one was from a recent college graduate – looking for "entry level" jobs – who has no related experience. Having spent years before/during college in jobs to simply get by, he asked how to translate this general experience into an effective resume.
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