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If you work a full year at 35 hours / week with four weeks off, it amounts to over one thousand six hundred hours (or over one hundred thousand minutes). That is an insanely high number – [...]

A loyal reader asks: “I’m looking for part-time opportunities and I’m facing the dilemma of dumbing down my resume to not appear over qualified yet at the same time I would like to [...]

In Europe, it is a norm for candidates to include extensive personal information on their resumes – age, marital status, number of children (if any). Canadian labour law, however, prevents [...]

One of the top candidates we are representing at the moment asked an excellent question. She was wondering what the recommendation was regarding sending a “Thank you” email versus a “Thank you” [...]

We decided to wrap up the holiday season by sharing with you excerpts from cover letters and résumés that put a smile on our faces in 2010. Enjoy! “In response to your advertisement for the [...]