Why Writing Targeted Resumes Is More Critical Than You Think

Why Writing Targeted Resumes Is More Critical Than You ThinkWhen applying for a job, you are immediately handed the responsibility of proving youre the best candidate, which can be challenging if you cant provide examples showing that this is indeed a fact. A great way to show your worth is by focusing on what the employer needs most from the candidate who will fill the position, then writing a targeted resume that addresses those needs specifically.Targeting Your Resume Proves You Are the Best Fit for the PositionEmployers absolutely need to know that the candidate they choose for a job is the best fit, which they do by confirming that a candidates past accomplishments and current skill platzset fall in line with the important day-to-day tasks and overarching goals of the position.If you write a generic resume that doesnt take into account the specific needs of the company or showcase your professional capabilities, you are failing to prove that you are right for the position. Unfor tunately, another candidate would be more than happy to pick up your slackand take your job while theyre at it.How Can You Ensure Your Resume Is Targeted?So how can you create that targeted resume that will show the employer that you deserve the interview?1. Research the company and position A great way to target your resume is to dig in and learn about the company and what the employer wants from its candidates. Once you acquire this information, you will be armed with specifics that can help you determine what contributions you can make to the company.2. Customize a job target/title, branding stellungnahme, and career summary Instead of writing a bland objective statement, place a job target/title at the top of your resume that defines who you are as a professional. Also, create a branding statement (a one- or two-line statement that sums up the value you can offer each employer based upon their needs and how you can meet them) that is customized to the specific job. Then write a career summary (most commonly a bullet point list that shares your career highlights) listing accomplishments most pertinent to the position at the top.3. Utilize keywords throughout Its also important to utilize specific keywords in your resume. For example, if you are applying as an executive chef in the hospitality industry, you might incorporate keyword phrases like menu planning, kitchen equipment, banquet meal production, and procurement of food supplies as indicators of your knowledge of the field. Keywords should be used in your job target/title, branding statement, career summary, and most other sections in your resume.Targeting your resumes requires a bit more effort but offers a lot in return. By taking time to tailor resumes for each company to which you apply, you give them no doubt that you are the best person for the job.For additional tips and advice on resumes and cover letters, follow GreatResume or visit our blog.

Food Blogs - The Top 15 You Should Follow

Food Blogs - The Top 15 You Should Follow Virginia Woolf said, One canleid think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. zu siche at Fairygodboss.com, we also believe you cannot work well if you do not eat well. So to that end, this month we have composed a list of some of the best food blogs, and a number of them are James Beard Foundation or Saveurmagazine award winners. Each blog is unique in its tone and approach one may resonate with you more than anotzu sichbei.Photo via Madeleine Shaw1. Madeleine ShawThe British food writer, yoga instructor, and menu consultant who promotes that what we eat can make us glow, tops our list because of her philosophy Food is the most powerful drug it informs not just how we look but how we feel and think too. My philosophy stems from my desire to educate people about this and to show how healthy food can be delicious, nutritious, affordable and simple to make. Her website contains recipes, wellness tips, videos, glow guides and l inks to her books and events.Photo via Serious Eats2. Serious EatsThis is the destination for delicious, serious eats with articles on cooking and food techniques (like how to store food in a Sub-Zero fridge), videos, recipes (think 23 Chicken Breast Recipes to Make You Like White Meat and tapas recipes for cocktail parteies) and feature articles on celebrity chefs, the best kitchen tools. Serious Eats also has the photo-centric The Food Lab series that teaches you how to make lobster rolls, risotto and katsu at home.Photo via Food523. Food 52This was started by Amanda and Merrill in the Chelsea area of New York City to bring cooks together from all over to exchange recipes and ideas and to support each other in the kitchen. They live by the cooking manifesto Eat thoughtfully, live joyfully. Who could disagree with that? Food 52 articles are broken down by What to Cook, How to Cook, New Now, Home Design, Drinks, Travel and Youre Good Little Joys for Well-Being. They also run a Bur nt Toast Podcast which claims to be the perfect pieces of cocktail party fodder in 15-26 minute-episodes.Photo via Thug Kitchen4. Thug KitchenThis is the place to go for foul-mouthed vegan recipes and books. Or as they say, Were the only website dedicated to verbally abusing you into a healthier diet. The recipes are easy to follow and full of flavor. (My 18-year-old stepson gobbles the stuff up even though he claims not to like veggies very much.) Examples of recipes include BBQ Bean Sliders with Celery Seed Slaw (under the blog title Spend the Weekend Slidin Dirty) and Black Sesame Cold Noodles w/Spring Veggies (You Deserve Fresh Noods). If swearing frequently doesnt bother you, this is the healthy recipes place for you.Photo via Eating with Your Hands5. Eating with Your HandsEating with Your Hands is devoted to, well, eating with your hands. The blogs tagline says, Because cutleries are lame. Fernando started the site because he thinks hand food is fun food. He includes recipes, articles about the food hes eaten and places hes been to eat that food (such as eating Iranian snack at the Azadi stadium, food trucks in Barcelona, Taiwanese street food ), guides on eating with your hands food, and reviews of places to eat with your hands. This site was a Saveurblog award finalist last year.Photo via Rambling Spoon6. Rambling SpoonThis was started by investigative journalists Karen Coates and Jerry Redfern because Food is lifeand death. It is history and culture, war and peace. It is our past, and it is our future. Food is who and what we are. They write about dinner and drink, people and places, the planets health and the future of food as they live part of the year at their house in New Mexico and spend part of the year traveling abroad. Recipes are plentiful (with gluten-free options) and the couple also authored four books.Photo via Potato Chips Are Not Dinner7. Potato Chips Are Not DinnerThis is a food blog by Paulina, a flight attendant who claims to be eati ng my way around the world when she isnt at home in Los Angeles. Recipes (matcha custard pie, sticky rice with mango, abogo three ways etc.) are sprinkled between travelogues and advice (How to Eat in Tokyo, Japan and Vietnamese Coffee Popsicles and How to Cross the Street Without Dying, for example). The tone is fun and the photos look realistic (as opposed to those photos where the food looks fake or Photoshopped to perfection).Photo via White.Vivd8. White.VividWhite.Vivid was created by Kati who is mostly a vegetarian, a foodie, picture taker, magical moments hunter and enthusiastic of everything else. She writes about travels and delicious food, both home and away, and includes recipes, food guides to cities, hotel reviews and gorgeous photos of both scenery and food. Her Mediterranean Vegetable Gratin and Springtime Rhubarb Almond Cake with Fresh Strawberries are art.Photo via Lime and Cilantro9. Lime and CilantroThis is the food blog of Soe Thein, a Burmese medical student at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. He started the blog in 2012 after sheer desperate craving for hometown cuisine and says that, Behind each recipe lies a story of perseverance, creativity, love and history. Recipes include Burmese food, appetizers and small bites, noodles and pasta, vegetable dishes and salads, rice and sweets (such as the awesome, fudgy no-bake hipster brownie bites).Photo via Harvest and Honey10. Harvest and HoneyThis is an open-ended love letter, culinarily inspired by Lauren McDuffie, who describes herself as a passionate and curious food loverwho writes for a living and cooks for the love of it. Recipes are separated into Breakfast and Bread Snacks, Sides, Salads Soups Sweets and Drinks. And articles have engaging titles such as Last Meal on Earth and Laughs in Wildflowers. The blog won Saveurs Best New Voice, Readers Choice Award in 2016.Photo via Vermilion Roots11. Vermilion RootsThis is a vegetarian food blog by Christine (daughter of a Kuala Lumpur chef) who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. The blog focuses on seasonal produce and Southeast Asian flavors and recent recipes include green garlic and spring onion fried faro, Asian rainbow chard wraps and baked south Indian fava bean fritters with green chutney. Vermilion Roots was a Saveur2016 blog award best new voice finalist and Christine has written interviews on her site with Soe Thein of Lime and Cilantro and many other food bloggers.Photo via Love and Lemons12. Love and LemonsLove and Lemons is the brainchild of Jeanine and Jack in Austin, Texas, and this couple has a soft spot for avocado toast and kale salads. The blog has been featured in Food Wine, Food 52, Oprah Magazineand many others. And The New York TimesThe Love and Lemons Cookbook An Apple-to-Zucchini Celebration of Impromptu Cooking as happiness in itself tossed in every bowl. Recipes on the blog are searchable by the categories of dairy free, gluten free, raw, vegan and vegetarian, in addi tion to season and meal type.Photo via Half Baked Harvest13. Half Baked HarvestHalf Baked Harvest was launched by Tieghan in a converted barn in Colorado in 2012 and its been featured on television and in magazines positiv won Readers Choice Favorite Food Blog by Better Homes and Gardensin both 2014 and 2016. It was also the recipient of SaveurMagazines 2016 Award for Most Inspired Weeknight Dinners as well as the 2016 Bloglovin Best Food Blog Award. The recipes range from cozy comfort foods to healthy(ish) desserts sprinkled with a few over the top creations. Blog favorites include Buffalo cheddar soft pretzel twists with everything spice, honey raspberry brie crostini with basil oil and nourishing 7 ingredient chocolate chip ricotta banana bread, plus many of main courses, meats and pizza recipes.Photo via I Am a Food Blog14. I Am a Food BlogThis is a collaboration between Steph, who has a soft spot for noodles, bacon, potatoes and breakfast foods, and Mike, who loves Scotch. Reci pes on the site range from easy and uncomplicated (think cheesy baked spaghetti and pizza toast) to the more elaborate (shrimp with spring vegetable cauliflower rice paella and kimchi stew with mochi and egg). The couple also blogs about food related travel. I am a Food Blog has won Saveurs2014 Editors Choice for Best Cooking Blog and Blog of the Year awards and its been written about in Food Wine.Photo via Lady and Pups15. Lady and PupsLady and Pups calls itself an angry food blog that started in 2012 as an outlet for Mandy Lees misery after moving from Vancouver and New York to Beijing. (She currently lives with her husband and dog children Jiao-Zi and Xia-Mi in Hong Kong.) The recipes on the blog have an Asian flair and rival those in high-end glossy food magazines (Buffalo wings soup with dumpling with skin crackling fish wonton with anchovy, garlic and Tabasco Tuscanys pork fat bits country bread), but what sets this blog apart from the others is the tab The Flops, where she w rites about the recipes that didnt work out (and shows photos of them too). This column includes dishes like caramelized lime spaghetti and kale and mocha ice cream. And the link to her Instagram account where she publishes the shit I eat when Im by myself which includes a grilled cheese sandwich that contains arugula and Flaming Cheetos and orange ramen.Filmmaker and food writer Anna Thomas said, We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of an opportunity to eat badly. So check out these blogs and Buon Appetito.More Blogs to Follow11 Personal Finance Blogs to Read that Actually Make SenseLooking to budget better or save for retirement? Check out one of these personal finance blogs.25 Fashion Blogs From Around The World That Will Leave You InspiredInto fashion and want to keep ahead of the latest trends and scout all the best ausverkauf? Check out these fashion blogs from around the world.22 Mom Blogs That Will Inspire The Heck Out Of YouAre you a mom and looking for parenting advice? Working mom advice? Business ideas? These mommy blogs will inspire you.--Jill L. Ferguson is the co-author of WOMEN Are Changing the Corporate Landscape Rules for Cultivating Leadership Excellence and Raise Rules for Women How to Make More Money at Work. She is the founder of Womens Wellness Weekends and can be followed on Twitter JLFerg.Our mission is to help women create the best careers for their lives. Join us to see what people are saying about your company, and pay it forward by sharing your own anonymous tip

How to Bring Your Entire Company Into the Recruiting Process

How to Bring Yur Entire Company Into the Recruiting ProcessHow RelativityHQ boosts employee referrals (and diversity)Click To TweetJosh TolanMy name is Josh Tolan and Im the CEO of Spark Hire, the leading video interviewing platform used by thousands of organizations around the world.And this is The Recruiting Reel, a video series in which we discuss real recruiting challenges with prestigetrchtig recruiting experts to provide you with actionable tips you can apply to your own recruiting.Today, I am joined by Shelli Nelson who is the Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition at Relativity which makes e-Discovery software to help users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. She is also the President of the Board of Directors at Chicago SHRM.Shelli is super passionate about people and her career accomplishments back that up.She has nearly 20 years of experience understanding business strategies, building organizations that are structured to excel, locating phenomenal talent and d esigning and executing innovative programs that propel companies beyond the competition.We all know that current employees can have a huge impact on hiring quality people, but how do you bring your entire company into the recruiting process to drive results?Fortunately, Shelli has the answersShelli Nelson For us, its about bringing the best possible talent toRelativity, and our employee referral rate is very high. On a given day, its an average of 42%, and we take great pride in that. We also take great pride in the fact that our employee referralrate is actually 9% more diverse than our standard applicant pool.We are a fast-growing tech company. Our team members take great pride in our products, whether its building out new features forRelativity, or building out our datenwolke solution,Relativity One. They get excited about the work that they do and they want to share that with everyone in their network. So thats how we get involved with our culture of recruitment initiatives.We s tart by educating our new hires on our product, our strategy, our impact in the tech community and beyond. Then, we like to make it very easy for them. We have a new ATS system, Lever, which makes it very simple for employees to submit referrals. And we are in constant communication with our entire organization about how important employee referrals are to us.Dont force your employees to engage in the hiring process If it isnt genuine, it wont work. And, also, if youre not in HR or Talent Acquisition, dont expect employees to have the resources that they need.You want to start by educating them on your product, your strategy, alsoencourage them to send referrals by having a strong employee referral bonus and constant communication of your culture of recruitment efforts.Josh TolanThanks, Shelli. Its amazing that what you have done with driving employee referrals at Relativity and your advice will certainly help people who are trying to empower their team to boost referrals at their r espective organizations.There is no better source of quality candidates than employee referrals, but what do you do if youre either a small company and dont have a lot of employee referrals flowing in or youve maximized your employee referral channel?This is where you can bring your company into the recruiting process as a conversion mechanism.Think about the candidates in your pipeline. They are evaluating your organization along with the others they are interviewing at.How can you stand out and convert these candidates into employees? This is where you can leverage your employees voices to tell the story about what its like to work at your organization.Develop strategies to get your employees to create content that can be used to get candidates excited about working for you.Im talking about selfie video testimonials, blog posts, quotes for your careers page, and more.Share this content with candidates that are already in your hiring funnel and youll be amazed with the conversion r esults.I want to thank Shelli Nelson for joining us today. If youd like to learn more about Relativity, go to relativity.com. If you want to connect with Shelli on LinkedIn, use the url below.Thank you for watching The Recruiting Reel and stay tuned for more episodes. For additional HR and recruiting content, head over to hr.sparkhire.com and subscribe. Also, follow us on Twitter, sparkhire. And subscribe to our YouTube channel to be the first to know about the newest episodes of The Recruiting Reel.Thanks again for watching and happy recruiting