Employers are skeptical and for good reason. Most have looked at hundreds or thousands of resumes, many making claims that eventually prove to be a stretch at best and outright lies at worst. In fact, ...

The cover letter is the first thing that the person screening applicants sees (when the screening is done by a person rather than by a computer), and the letter draws explicit connections between the ...

Hiring managers only look at your resume for about 7 seconds before deciding on your candidacy. About 75 percent of applicants don’t survive that scrutiny. But then, there are the Applicant Tracking ...