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How to respond to a recruiter on LinkedIn. 5 professional examples
When someone reaches out to you online, you may not know what to say. Don’t panic. Read our guide on how to respond to a recruiter on LinkedIn now.
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Resume Help15 min read
Proofreading your Resume: 12 Tips
Published in Career
by 
Paul Drury
Getting a promotion is a momentous occasion that should be celebrated with friends and family. But how should you add a promotion on your LinkedIn profile?
Published in Career
When you’re climbing the career ladder, sometimes you need an extra leg-up. Learning to write a promotion request letter is the way to go. Read our writing guide now.
Published in Resume Help
by Paul Drury
When it comes to looking for a job, posting your resume to allow employers to find you is a solid strategy. Here are a few sites that enable you to be discovered.
Published in Resume Help
Learn how, where, and when to add internship experience to your resume, no matter the field. Plus, check out examples of internships on a resume and get inspired to create your own.
Published in Cover Letter
by Paul Drury
Hiring managers love to hear that one of their colleagues feels that a candidate would be a good hire. But how do you embed such a referral within the cover letter?
Published in Resume Help
by Paul Drury
Updating a resume is an activity that should happen at regular intervals during any career. You do not have to be in an active job search. You never know when you may be approached for a new role.
by 
Susan Shor
Unless you’re a designer (or even if you are), developing your own resume from scratch is probably not for you. There are hundreds of templates out there, and you don’t want to plow through all of them. Let us do it for you.
Published in Resume Help
by Susan Shor
You’ve written and rewritten, looking for the best wording for your accomplishments, which keywords to use and whether your summary expresses exactly what you want it to. But how do you really know if your resume is the best it can be? Get a resume score from our free checker.
Published in Career
The working world is changing—for the better. Read all about how younger workers are revamping the professional landscape now.
Published in Resume Help
Resume tenses can be confusing, to say the least. Read our guide on how to navigate this somewhat tricky grammatical issue.
Published in Career
by Paul Drury
Working in time shifts is more common than you might think. If organized properly, it can become a new normal without too much disruption. If you can overcome the challenges, an ability to work at abnormal times could be a competitive advantage.
