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On the way up? Lay a Solid Foundation for Your Career

The Globe and Mail recently announced the recipients of the Top 40 Under 40 awards. Every year since 1995, a group of industry and community leaders from across Canada select 40 Canadians who have achieved significant success before reaching the age of 40, through Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Program. The Top 40 Under 40 [...]

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On the way up? Lay a Solid Foundation for Your Career

A strategic resume can make or break an executive

Anyone can type a page or two and call it a resume. To write an effective executive resume, you need to be much more than a typist; you need to be strategic. When it comes to writing resumes, strategy is not about: Following the pack just because they say that something “should be done a [...]

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A strategic resume can make or break an executive

Special Event for CANADIAN CAREER PRACTITIONERS

If you are like most talented and qualified career professionals, you probably love helping your clients achieve their career goals. You have invested in learning your craft and gaining your credentials. You have everything you need to succeed – except good clients who are willing to pay what you are worth. The problem is you’re [...]

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Special Event for CANADIAN CAREER PRACTITIONERS

Post-Recession Career Transition Strategies for Canadian Executives

“Canadian employers expect an upbeat hiring climate for the third quarter of 2010” Manpower’s Employment Outlook Survey of more than 1,900 Canadian employers reveals a hiring climate that is trending upwards as we enter the second half of 2010. Since the start of the recession, we have been preoccupied with job losses. However, as the [...]

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Post-Recession Career Transition Strategies for Canadian Executives

Is your command of English hampering your job search?

70% of six-figure Canadian resumes have several spelling and grammatical errors. According to a landmark research study conducted by Graham Management Group (GMG), many professionals are not performing adequate due diligence to ensure that they are presenting impeccable documents. GMG evaluated 1000 resumes received from six-figure candidates over a period of one year and found [...]

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Is your command of English hampering your job search?

Enhance the readability of your executive resume

49% of Canadian executive resumes have significant issues hampering readability. As a leader and innovator in the Canadian resume writing industry, Graham Management Group (GMG) actively keeps a finger on the pulse of the market. In the largest research study of its kind, we evaluated 1000 randomly selected resumes that we received from senior executives, [...]

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Enhance the readability of your executive resume

Sales, Marketing, and Business Development Professionals: Do you look the part?

To be considered seriously as a sales, marketing, or business development candidate, you must look the part. You need to capture your prospective employer’s interest, present your product, highlight its features, demonstrate how the employer will benefit, negotiate the agreement, and close your next job offer. If you fail in any of these steps, you [...]

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Sales, Marketing, and Business Development Professionals: Do you look the part?

Build a Profitable Career Business – Early Bird

I’m so thrilled with the response I’ve received about this new program. I would like to thank everyone who has registered already, and many more of my colleagues for sending their “well wishes.” The EARLY BIRD RATE ends tomorrow and there still are a few spots left. I’m ready to share my secrets for success, [...]

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Build a Profitable Career Business – Early Bird

BUILD A PROFITABLE CAREER BUSINESS

During this recession, 50% of practitioners are making more money than the previous year. – Resume Writers Recession Survey 2009 Special Event for CANADIAN CAREER PRACTITIONERS Doesn’t it make you wonder how some career professionals are so busy with their practice that they can “pick and choose” clients? Through the last ten years, I’ve met [...]

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BUILD A PROFITABLE CAREER BUSINESS

Is your functional resume hurting your executive search?

25% of six-figure job seekers are not addressing their shortcomings effectively Based on two North American studies, it is clear that many executives are still opting to follow templates rather than creating a distinctive, strategic resume. Historically, professionals have been told to list their career history in a chronological format, presenting their career progression in [...]

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Is your functional resume hurting your executive search?