A video résumés isn’t appropriate for every role. But for some, it can just be a great tool to help you stand out (in a good way). When it comes to job-hunting, video résumés are a tricky topic. A ...

You want every edge you can get in applying for a job right now. And you want to prove your social media bona fides. A video resume could help you do both, right? Not so fast. Still convinced that a ...

After Ryan Dougherty sent out about 70 traditional resumes to prospective employers and got no responses, he decided he needed to shake things up. “I had to take a different approach,” he explains, ...

Wouldn't it be nice to find a sample resume that matches your background, copy it to your word-processing program, make minor changes and be done with the arduous task of creating a dazzling resume?

Despite significant changes in technology and media in our daily lives over the last 20 to 30 years, the humble one- or two-page résumé has remained a remarkably consistent tool in the job application ...

DEAR JOYCE: I belong to a job club. A fellow unemployed member presented a program showing how to use video resumes to apply for employment. His examples were triple A: awkward, amateurish and awful!

I love helping people with their resumes. So I did a video with Ladders member Tom Shinners to show you the before and after. It’s worth watching in full, because I go through the specific mistakes ...