Career Tips Blog

As of January 2014, I have been contributing career & job search advice blog posts for both Meet Your Gig, a cutting-edge startup business, and also the IBM Jobs Blog.

Meet Your Gig is a place where job seekers will get to meet technology startup businesses to medium-sized companies that are prequalified and recommended places to work.  The businesses featured will allow you to see what types of opportunities they will have and a realistic view of what it is like to work there, culturally.  Job seekers can learn if it will be a mutual fit before investing time into the application & interview process.  It's primarily geared towards the millennial generation and tech companies, but not exclusively, and all are welcome.  We have a team of career experts waiting to help you.

Now, all my blog posts will be posted directly on their blogging sites along with other related experts.  To check out my latest career and job search advice, please click on the 2 blogrolls below and subscribe.

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Don't get too carried away with your resume!

Posted by Brent Bates on Saturday, December 8, 2012, In : Resume Writing 
As a recruiter, I see hundreds of resumes per day.
Some are long, some are short.
Some are succinct & to-the-point, some are overly verbose.
Some are black & white, some are so colorful it makes my eyes hurt!
Some look like they were created by a 4th grader, some look like a graphically designed sales brochure.

You may think that the professionally done sales brochure resume is better than the 4th grade level resume containing spelling and grammatical errors... Well, you are right! However, an o...
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Your Resume is NOT a Work History report!

Posted by Brent Bates on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, In : Resume Writing 
I wanted to discuss an interesting debate that many job seekers have asked me... 
Do you have to include EVERY job you've worked in your resume?

 - Maybe you had a job that you started, found wasn't a good fit for you, and would prefer to just leave it off your resume because it was only 1 week of employment. 
 - Maybe you were fired.
 - Maybe you were working multiple jobs at once and don't want it to appear that you are a "job hopper" from first glance.
 - Maybe you don't want it to appear tha...
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What NOT to include in your resume

Posted by Brent Bates on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, In : Resume Writing 
According to a recent CareerBuilder study, nearly half (45 percent) of human resource managers said they spend, on average, less than one minute reviewing an application. The survey, which was conducted by Harris Interactive© from May 19 to June 8, 2011, included more than 2,600 employers nationwide.

With unemployment at a record high in the USA, recruiters and hiring managers aren't wasting time to dig through your resume & application.  Most of the time, we only look at the top half-page of...
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About Me


I have worked in Human Resources, currently work as a recruiter, and do career coaching/job search assistance in my spare time. My recruiting experience encompasses a wide variety of industries, having worked with manual labor to CEO's. After a long time of seeing job seekers "bang their head against the wall," making the same mistakes over and over, and oozing of desperation in this poor economy, I decided to reach out to the workforce and offer help from an inside-perspective. I sincerely hope that I can make your job search less frustrating.

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