About - Top Margin
Meet Gayle Howard. Multi-award winning resume writer and founder of the Top Margin Career Marketing Group of Services; services that have transformed the careers of thousands of technology-based executives and consultants worldwide for more than eighteen years. For more information please visit http://www.topmargin.com| Next |  |
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Today’s Enlightened Jobseeker
10:02am Friday 30 October 2009 - Top Margin As a member of Career Collective–a community of resume writers and career coaches, this article is one of many responses to Quintessential Careers “Job Action Day”. I encourage you to visit other members’ responses, which will be linked at the end of my article on November 2nd. Please follow our hashtag on Twitter: #careercollective. Challenging times call for [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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You said WHAT on your resume?
9:04am Sunday 25 October 2009 - Top Margin Your prospective employer, a recruiter, or hiring manager is not your best buddy and not your confidant. Yes, these people want to know about you, your background and your achievements, but they don’t need to know all about it! Many people writing their own resumes think everything needs to be explored, without knowing that every revelation can [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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TORI Award Recipient!
4:58pm Wednesday 21 October 2009 - Top Margin Well the 2009 TORI Awards have been announced in Orlando Florida at Career Directors International’s Career Summit and I’m proud to say that I maintain the record as the only member of the Career Directors International association to have won TORI Awards across nine consecutive years. Talk about professional pressure! This year I was honoured [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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You’re leaving? Is the grass ever really greener?
6:36pm Tuesday 20 October 2009 - Top Margin There are some perfectly valid reasons to leave your current company. An entrenched bullying culture, where management pay lip service but nothing ever changes. Serious mismanagement where you know that any moment auditors will be walking in the door and closing things down You are fighting an uphill battle against a family-owned and operated company, knowing that the [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Resisting Change? Say Goodbye Career
1:07pm Thursday 15 October 2009 - Top Margin What have you done to improve your skills in the last six months? The last year? He who stands still doesn’t stand a chance in this ever-changing world. Think your job will be there forever? The title may well remain, but without a doubt, the job itself will evolve and you’ll need to keep up with [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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What the heck are you doing?
10:29am Thursday 08 October 2009 - Top Margin Give someone your undivided attention when he or she speaks. It’s not old-fashioned to stop multi-tasking for a minute. Is it too much trouble to refrain from interrupting while the interviewer speaks? To treat people politely and with respect? Manners are what makes us civilised; and they also appear to be in decline. Just last week I [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Sabotaging your prospects: cookie-cutter style
10:23am Monday 05 October 2009 - Top Margin As a member of a new community of resume writers and career coaches called the Career Collective, this post is one of many responses to the question, “Are you a cookie cutter job seeker?” I encourage you to visit other members’ responses, linked at the end of my reply! Please follow our hashtag on Twitter: [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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Recruiters: A Jobseeker’s Friend or Foe?
7:24pm Wednesday 30 September 2009 - Top Margin Rarely a day goes by when I don’t hear grumbles and rants from jobseekers about recruiters. “She said she’d call and she hasn’t!”, one will moan or “He won’t keep in the loop about my application” another will wail. Generally the complaints are these: Recruiters do not follow up with me on my job application. Recruiters are [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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September is International Update Your Resume Month
6:57pm Wednesday 02 September 2009 - Top Margin You’ve heard of Pink Ribbon Day, Red Nose Day, The Year of the Whale, Forest Awareness Week and so on. All of them very important in raising awareness for different causes. Now there is one for the workers of the world. Yes folks, September is the official International Update Your Resume Month! I know you may find [...] | View Full Article Email Article |
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TORI Nominee!
8:42am Wednesday 26 August 2009 - Top Margin I’m pleased to report that I’ve just been nominated for four TORI Awards (TORI stands for Toast of the Resume Industry). Nominations were for Best Executive Resume, Best Graduate Resume, Best Creative Resume and Best Technical Resume. The Awards are announced in Career Directors Conference Awards Ceremony in October. | View Full Article Email Article |
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