The IT Girls Coach

London, UK (PRWEB) July 7, 2009 — Women in IT positions often find themselves isolated and unable to access the information they need to further their career development. To address this issue womenintechnology.co.uk and Krissy Jackson, The IT Girls Career Coach have partnered to provide further training opportunities via webinar for women all around the Globe.

“This is a natural partnership. Both organizations are committed to assisting women in technology to build successful and satisfying careers”. “Partnering with the IT Girls Coach and adding webinars to career training course options is helping to dramatically extend the reach of womenintechnology.co.uk,” said Sarah Lilley the Events & Training Co-ordinator. “This month’s featured webinar already has 280 registrants from four continents.”

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New cyber-rules for resume writing
By Randy Woods
NWjobs

You think you know everything there is to know about resume writing?
Fuh-gedd-aboud-it, says Paul Anderson, a career and psychology expert with Kirkland-based ProLango Consulting. “The algorithm for resumes has changed significantly, even since last October,” he says.

The most noteworthy shift since the economic meltdown began last fall is that most people make the mistake of writing resumes for actual people. “Humans aren’t reading resumes anymore.”

Instead, they are being fed and processed to online resume software systems that are programmed to look for specific key words. If certain skill sets are not detected, the resume is summarily rejected well before an actual breathing person has a chance to read that you have an interest in photography and “work well with others.”

Anderson, who teaches free seminars on career search advice, interviewing tips and resume writing, says this online resume revolution has rewritten the basic rules of how resumes are crafted. Here are a few pointers to write for these resume software algorithms:

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Resume Writing Basics

By Penelope Trunk
Founder: Brazen Careerist

This is the problem with the resume-writing world: Everyone thinks they’re an exception to the rules. Everyone thinks they can pick and choose which rules are important. Do not do this. Until you work in human resources and personally scan 300 resumes a day, you are in no position to discard rules of resume writing. Here are the six most violated rules among the resumes that people send to me to review:

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