Skills can make or break your resume. They should match the jobs you're applying for and show recruiters that you can succeed at their companies. Sometimes companies will use applicant tracking ...

Your resume is the most important part of the job application process because it is the first thing that employers see. Research suggests that recruiters spend an average of 7.4 seconds skimming a ...

Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your human resources questions as part of a series for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR ...

Job searches are often described as akin to looking for a needle in a haystack. That could be even more so in the digital age, an era when online job boards feature hundreds, if not thousands, of ...

Resumes, cover letters and writing samples are the first, and sometimes only, opportunity to make a positive impression on an employer. They must be perfect. Your entire work history and educational ...

The first step to a good resume is choosing a format. According to the popular job site Indeed.com, a chronological resume is a good choice if you’ve spent the past several years in the same industry ...

After hiring for thousands of jobs over 20+ years of recruiting, I have seen many different styles of hiring. Sometimes, a company looks at résumés (submitted in response to a job posting or via a ...

The hottest trend lately is using artificial intelligence for anything related to creating content for stories, blogs, books, illustrations — and resume writing. Clients submit their resumes (designed ...

Dear Sam: I had the absurd notion that my resume was "good enough" to get a job, but unfortunately I have been submitting resumes left and right and have only had a few interviews. Not only is the ...