COVID-19 Job Search Issues – Brenda Bernstein’s Enhanced “Ask the Experts” Highlights

Over the past several months, I have been featured multiple times on The NRWA’s “Ask the Experts” pages. Most recently, COVID-19 job search issues have been a common theme. In this article, I’ve provided enhanced tips on COVID-19 job searching from the “Ask the Experts” site – from how to choose a target company to…

The Future of Your Job Search: Findings of Career Jam 2017

The Future of Job Search Strategies: Findings of Career Jam 2017

Good news! The Findings of 2017 Career Jam: Where Experts Forecast the New & the Next, has been released by the Career Thought Leaders Consortium! This report summarizes the findings of brainstorming sessions about the future of job search strategies, which were held on December 1, 2017 in the United States, Canada, Spain, France, Austria,…

LinkedIn + Microsoft's Resume Assistant: Friend or Foe?

LinkedIn + Microsoft’s Resume Assistant: Friend or Foe?

The biggest conversation about LinkedIn nowadays seems to be about the perils of Resume Assistant, a child of LinkedIn and Microsoft’s recent marriage. LinkedIn touts Resume Assistant as an integration between LinkedIn and Microsoft Word that will help you accurately reflect who you are and what you’ve done, in a way that is tailored to…

Elon Musk's One-Page Resume

10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Model Your Resume on Elon Musk’s One-Page Resume

Last April, a resume writing company called Novorésumé created Elon Musk’s one-page resume, claiming that this resume proves no one needs a resume longer than one page. The resume spread virally. But does it prove what it claims to prove? I’m not reproducing the Elon Musk one-page resume here since I don’t want to violate…