An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link You might approach your LinkedIn summary the way you do the "objective" part of your résumé — you would rather ignore it, or you're not sure if ...

Hiring managers are busy people. A single job posting might attract thousands of resumes. To get noticed, create a career summary (aka career objective) statement. The goal of this section is to ...

Events move pretty fast in the day-to-day operations of your business. One way to keep your team efforts focused in a common direction is through the use of business activity reports. These reports ...

Dear Sam: I'm really struggling to see why my resumes aren't effective. I have spent time explaining what I did at each job, highlighting accomplishments, and still I don't get a response. I even ...

Regardless of how you feel about LinkedIn, the platform can help professionals in innumerable ways, from professional growth, to networking, to finding new clients and customers for your brand. Like ...

Founder, career coach and interview coach behind CaffeinatedKyle.com. My goal is simple: to help people find jobs they LOVE. You only have a handful of seconds to grab the attention of recruiters with ...

An executive summary is a portion of a business plan that sums up all of the information a business plan contains. Since this is a summary of the plan's contents, you write this piece last. For a ...

Dear Sam: The part of my resume that I'm struggling with the most is my summary statement. Can you share some advice about how to write one effectively? I'm so used to having an objective statement ...

Some people hate to write about themselves. That is what Mary, 59, a Product Director, said to me yesterday as we began to create her LinkedIn Profile. She went on to reveal why. “I find it very hard ...

Dear Sam: I'm really struggling to see why my resumes aren't effective. I have spent time explaining what I did at each job, highlighting accomplishments, and still I don't get a response. I even ...

Dear Sam: I'm really struggling to see why my resumes aren't effective. I have spent time explaining what I did at each job, highlighting accomplishments, and still I don't get a response. I even ...