Crossroads Career Network

There’s a lot of confusion out there about functional resumes. While the basics are consistent, the implementations vary greatly. And to make things worse, there’s often the confusion of functional resumes with skill-based resumes, targeted resumes, accomplishment resumes, combination resumes, and many others. In my opinion, these are all format variants of either the chronological [...]

Job searching is very challenging now-a-days. With unemployment around 10% nationwide and over 15% in many cities, more and more people are on the job hunt. And the number of people crawling through Monster, CareerBuilder, and other jobs sites is in the millions! Yes, there’s lots of jobs posted on these sites, but considering the [...]

So you finished writing your resume, right? You have reviewed it carefully for grammar, structure, accuracy and completeness. You have it down to 2 pages and it has a modest amount of keywords (both action verbs and nouns). So you’re done, right? No. You’re now ready to write your next resume. “What? But I just [...]

As a resume reviewer I don’t usually get to start with a “blank sheet”, I’m instead put in the position of critiquing an existing resume—one that the job seeker has often worked diligently on for days or weeks or months.  Sometimes the resume is so pitiful I can’t bring myself to mark everything that’s wrong [...]

I can remember having participated in a resume review where a mid-career business manager presented me with a 6-page resume. It was obvious he was proud of his effort, and I had to commend him on the thoroughness of the document, as it detailed jobs, activities, successes, awards, and other achievements starting from his first [...]