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Within the craresources blog you will see industry updates, Job Seeker and Hiring Manager advice. We want you to join us and help create the community you want to be a part of!Welcome to our blog!
Within this craresources blog you will see industry updates, Job Seeker and Hiring Manager advice. We want you to join us and help create the community you want to be a part of!We believe the most important role in this industry is that of a Clinical Research Associate. We ‘pound the pavement’ daily to find the best CRAs…and engage them.
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Why Other Job Seekers Are Landing Jobs on LinkedIn (and How You Can, Too)
Landing Jobs: It is easy to assume that the job seekers who are landing jobs on LinkedIn are doing something you aren't. Maybe they have better connections, flashier credentials, or insider access you don’t. But that is usually not the case. More often than not, the...
Roundtable: Elevator Pitch Examples for Job Seekers
Elevator Pitch Examples for Job Seekers: Mastering tough interview questions sets top job seekers apart. In today's roundtable on elevator pitch examples for job seekers, we help you turn potential pitfalls into opportunities to shine. In this podcast segment, our...
Job Values: Why ‘Anything With a Paycheck” Backfires
Job Values: I was coaching a recent job seeker (whom I will call Angela) and recommended that she come up with a list of relevant job values so she could better target her applications. She scoffed...telling me she thought that was a waste of time. Angela thought she...
Roundtable: Job Seeker Elevator Pitch Examples
Job Seeker Elevator Pitch Examples: Crafting a powerful elevator pitch is one of the toughest, yet most important, challenges for job seekers. In this roundtable conversation, our coaching team takes a deep dive into real job seeker elevator pitch examples that go far...
When Your Job Search Goal Turns Into Job Search Guilt
Job Search Goal: You know that feeling when you’re doing everything right? Sending out applications, tweaking your resume, showing up on LinkedIn...and having a robust job search goal? Yet there is this invisible heaviness sitting right on your shoulders. Yeah. That...
Roundtable: Use an Elevator Pitch to Ace Your Interview
Elevator Pitch: What if the secret to interview success was hidden in a quick, 60-second conversation? This week’s roundtable explores how mastering your elevator pitch can completely transform how well you interview. But what the heck is an Elevator Pitch? It is a...
What is a Job Seeker Elevator Pitch?
Job Seeker Elevator Pitch: The concept of an elevator pitch originated as a concise, persuasive speech that professionals could deliver in the time it takes to ride an elevator, typically 30 to 60 seconds. For job seekers, this idea has evolved into a concise...
Roundtable: Reframing Long Term Unemployment
Long Term Unemployment: I saw a post the other day where a job seeker was upset because an interviewer asked why she had been out of work for so long. Guys, every interviewer is going to ask about an employment gap. The real question is how you prepare to answer it...
Choosing the Resume Style for Your Story
Resume Style: So, you’re staring at a blank screen, coffee mug in hand, trying to write a resume that says, “Hire me!” without sounding like 1,000 other job seekers shouting the same thing. You start typing your name at the top, but wonder what resume style to use....
Roundtable: The Talent Match-Choosing the Right Recruiter
Talent Match: Building the right partnership is never accidental, regardless of whether you are building relationships in your personal life or your career. In this episode, our team explores the parallels between choosing a talent match (aka a recruitment agency) and...
Soft Skills Training for Job Seekers
Soft Skills Training: Soft skills training can be the secret advantage that helps job seekers stand out on paper, on LinkedIn, and in every interview conversation. When you intentionally build and showcase your soft skills, you dramatically increase your chances of...
Roundtable: How to be a Reference (or Not)
How to be a Reference: Ever been asked to be a reference and felt unsure how to respond? You are not alone. Our latest roundtable podcast dives into how to be a reference, including when it is okay not to say yes. In this candid discussion, our panel shares what...
Addressing Long Term Unemployment
Long Term Unemployment: Long Term Unemployment: You Are Not Broken If you have been out of work for six months, a year, or even several years, it can start to feel like a personal verdict on your worth. In reality, long-term unemployment is often tied to factors...
Podcast: Building Resilience – Surviving the Job Search
Building Resilience: In this heartfelt and eye-opening second installment with Kimberly Wilkinson, we turn our spotlight to the pivotal challenge facing every job seeker today: building resilience in a landscape filled with uncertainty, rejection, and rapidly changing...
Right and Wrong Use of Resume Buzzwords
Resume Buzzwords: Job seekers spend hours polishing their resumes, trying to find the perfect words to break through applicant tracking systems (ATS) and impress hiring managers. Somewhere along the way, populating your CV with “resume buzzwords” became an expected...
Podcast: Job Scams, Survival Skills, and Sanity Savers
Job Scams: Navigating Today's Candidate Minefield Ready for an eye-opening look at the darker and sometimes downright bizarre side of the job search? Today's episode features topics every job seeker knows but few dare to share aloud. And while we certainly speak...
Modern Day Resume Killers!
Resume Killers: Everyone has heard about the classic resume mistakes. A stray typo here, a formatting issue there, maybe a vague “hard-working team player” thrown in for good measure. If only avoiding the resume trash pile were as simple as running spellcheck and...
Roundtable: Is Today’s Job Market an Endless Loop?
Today's Job Market: Are you stuck in the endless loop of applying for jobs but not getting anywhere? Wondering why your LinkedIn profile feels more like a ghost town than a buzzing marketplace? Or maybe you’re asking yourself, “Am I really taking the right steps to...
Nothing Says “Hire Me” Like a Thank You After Interview
Thank You After Interview: Do you always send a thank you after interview conversations? If not, you could be missing out on a simple yet powerful way to turn a great interview into a job offer. Surveys show that 68% of hiring managers believe failing to send a...
Podcast: Job Search Strategy Secrets
Job Search Strategy: Today's podcast is the perfect pit stop if your approach to job hunting feels a bit like using a map from the Stone Age in the GPS world. Angela is joined by Lyle Gee (and the insightful Becky Clark) to drop truth bombs and chuckles for anyone...