Success story

It was a great pleasure working with you. I have a difficult background; however, you did an outstanding job with fantastic style and creativity. Your idea to incorporate some testimonials and the way you reduced a lot of information to its essence made the resume even more appealing. I thank you very much.

International Business Consultant,
Ellicot, MD/Munich, Germany

  Know your value

Jeri is interviewed on Studio One, a cable news program produced by students, faculty and staff at the University of North Dakota. This segment talks about job interview process and how you can be prepared for this important part of getting your career going in the right direction.


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The Workwrite Job Search Guide is for you if you are:

Executive: CEO, CIO, CFO, COO, President, Vice President, Partner
At the top of your profession, an accomplished leader with a vision to match, you have accomplishments begging to be quantified in ways that show your enterprise scope.
Management: Director, manager, general manager, operations manager, You are doubly blessed with management experience backed by a profession.
Professional: You are highly educated and/or trained in a career track field.
Technical: Your training is highly specialized, technology oriented, and quickly evolving.
Creative: Your career has called you into the attic of angels, where the sweat of creativity powers the heavens.

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Tweet your resume with this new app

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If you aren’t using Twitter for your job search, start now.

One of the first things you can do is to use Twitres to tweet your resume.

Here are some tips for using Twitres:

Recruiters post job descriptions on Twitres, so search for any that apply to your target position by using hashtags. A hashmark or pound sign looks like this: #. If you

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Mentoring for international award nomination and job search success

You know that saying about life being counted not by the number of breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away? I just had one.

I’ve been nominated for an award in the Best Creative Resume category of the Career Directors International (CDI) annual Toast of the Resume Industry (TORI) competition. This is the first year I’ve entered, so I’m thrilled to have

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Keep your resume updated in the Update Club

What we hear from our clients:

I’m so glad you wrote my resume, but it’s out of date.
I don’t know how to update it without feeling like I’m bragging.
I don’t know what to leave in and what to leave out out the update.
I can’t remember what I’ve done that should be on the resume update.

What we’re doing to fix it:

Everything.

Clients who have a Workwrite Resume

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Benefits and jobs for returning veterans

Command Sgt. Maj. Dan Job (right) congratulates Spc. Leah N. Stoner, of Fargo, who recently returned from her second deployment with the North Dakota National Guard. Stoner and more than 300 other North Dakota Soldiers were honored Sept. 9, 2010, during the 231st Maneuver Task Force Freedom Salute. (Photo by Spc. Jess Raasch, 116th Public Affairs Detachment)

Dear Veterans,

First, thank you. Thank you for fighting

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Job search resources I promised you on AM 1100

I was interviewed for the Sept. 15 edition of AM 1100′s Life Talk, and I promised my host Jodee Bock of Bock’s Office that I would post resources for the job seekers in our audience. (Check back for the podcast of the show.)

Job hunting hasn’t gotten any easier lately. The recession with the accompanying layoffs has put many careers on hold and sent others on

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Simplify your job search with these 10 tools

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Two savvy people crossed my path today, talking about the same thing. I generally take that as a sign it’s something to pay attention to.

Resume guru Julie Walraven showed me how to use Skype to collaborate on documents with my resume clients. It’s really simple.

1. Call your client or writer on Skype.
2. When you see the message field, click “share” below it and then

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Job search getting you down? Test your Positivity

It’s hard to stay positive when looking for a job, but now, there’s a new way to test and track our own positivity level.

The first prospect of a job search can be exciting. A new start, fresh path, but when the novelty wears off that second week or so, it’s more appealing to catch up on work you brought home, play outside with the kids,

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De-stress flying to a job interview by planning well

Canada Air has jellybean pod chairs in Executive Class that are reputed to be sleep-worthy.

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Interviewing for a new job is plenty stressful for most people. Flying is a bit anxiety producing for many. Flying across the country to a job interview can magnify the stress of both circumstances until it feels like an entire suitcaseload. SeatExpert.com has a trick to help job seekers be

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International Update Your Resume Month is now

Updating your resume isn’t just for jobseekers anymore.

September is International Update Your Resume Month, courtesy Career Directors International, one of our favorite organizations.

If you just slapped yourself on the forehead and said, “That’s what I was going to do this month,” don’t even bother to read the rest of the post. Just call us at 218.791.4045 or email jeri@workwrite.net to talk about the kind of

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Help out my friend and apply for this job

My friend John is Human Resources Director for a company so new it doesn’t have a logo. He needs to hire 15  people by Monday for the help desk at Restaurant Technology Services in Grand Forks, ND. Let’s see if we can help him out:

If you need a new job, keep reading.
If you don’t need a job, but someone you know does, please

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