Resume Tips for Liberal Arts Students

I review a lot of students’ résumés, and I find myself dispensing similar advice résumé after résumé.  So I thought I’d share a few suggestions with you here from my perspective as (1) someone who sat on the hiring side of the desk for a couple of decades and (2) a champion of liberal arts majors looking…

Sapping Our Job Recovery: Online Application Systems

(I’m going to digress a little from the usual fare to talk about the job application process for a moment.)           In this era of record unemployment, it seems everyone who isn’t unemployed knows at least a dozen people who are.  Our economic recovery—everyone seems to agree—depends on “jobs creation.”  Lack of jobs is a…