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At Distinctive Career Services, our mission is to empower you with the tools, resources, and confidence you need to pursue your dream career and build a career you will love! On this blog, get tips and advice to help you to advance in your current career path, make a desired career change, or promote your personal brand and image. Articles cover topics such as career planning, resume writing, LinkedIn profile writing, job searching, interviewing, networking, and more.
How To Land Your Dream Job: Take Proactive Control
You're having that dream again. You know, the one where you forgot about your dream job interview and you're not prepared in the slightest. You've shown up wearing faded pajamas and fuzzy slippers, and to your horror, your resume
What To Do When A Job Recruiter Calls You
Job searching can feel like a never-ending quest. The seemingly unending polish of your resume and cover letter, and relentless searching for job postings that match most (if not all) of your career must-haves. It can be exasperating to
What Is a Headhunter? The 5 Types of Recruiters You Need To Know About
What is a headhunter, exactly? Working in the employment services industry as I do, this is one of the most common questions that I encounter. While recruiters (aka headhunters) all do similar things (human resources sourcing, interviewing, and filling positions),
How To Write a Sales Resume That Gets Great Results
If you want to write your sales resume to make the final cut and land you an interview for your dream sales job--whether that is an inside or outside sales or as a hunter or farmer sales representative--it is
Resume Best Practices: 5 Words You Should Never Use
If you are writing a resume, here are 5 words you should never use, plus some resume excerpts to show you how to put these tips into practice.
How To Back Up Your LinkedIn Profile & Data (and the reasons)
You've put a lot of work into your LinkedIn profile. The last thing you want to do is lose that data! Many people don't even have a clue that they should regularly back up their LinkedIn profile and data.
3 Must-Knows For Turning Interviews Into Job Offers
It's Wednesday morning. Most of your friends are well into their workday, slugging down their fourth 'get-me-through-another-meeting' coffee, laughing at the boss' latest lame attempt at a joke. But not you. Not today. Today, you're headed to an interview.
Time Management Secrets: 5 Smart Tips For Job Hunters
Time management...it seems like it should be simple, but for so many it is one of the greatest challenges. It's every job hunter's hidden secret. While you might claim you're spending every minute reading job postings and tweaking your
Shhhhh! How To Conduct A Secret Job Search
People change jobs often throughout life. And currently employed people always worry about how to conduct a secret job search. The average person born in the latter years of the baby boom (1957-1964) has held 11.7 jobs from age
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