Tips to Land a Job

Once the excitement of landing a job interview fades, anxiety may set in. Every company has its own hiring criteria and process — what will this interviewer focus on? 

Quickly updating your resume doesn’t have to be a daunting task. Here are seven ways to help make it a painless process.

Job interview coming up? Here's what 400 creative executives said not to do.

The words you use on your resume are crucial. A CareerBuilder survey reports that 17 percent of hiring managers spend 30 seconds or less looking at a resume. As such, you need to make your points quickly, and you need to make them well. Hackneyed buzzwords and clichés won’t catch a hiring manager’s eye. So let’s take a look at six terms job seekers should avoid when writing a resume — along with better ways to shine.

Your resume and portfolio has won you an invitation to meet the hiring manager. Before you go in, review these five job interview “deal breakers.”