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Sharon Graham, Canada's Career Strategist, CPRW, CEIP, MCRS, MCIS, MCCS
Graham Management Group & Career Professionals of Canada
Thought Leadership: Canadian Career Transition Strategies
Websites: www.SharonGraham.cawww.GrahamManagement.comwww.CareerProCanada.ca
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Phone: 866.622.1464
Sharon Graham is Canada’s Career Strategist. A recognized career transition expert, she is president and principal consultant for Graham Management Group, the top six-figure career transition firm in Canada. Sharon is founder and executive director of Career Professionals of Canada, the foremost association for resume writers and career practitioners in the nation. Additionally, Sharon is a board member of the Career Management Alliance. She is recipient of the Stu Conger Award for Leadership in Career Counselling and Career Development, Canada’s premier honour presented by the Canadian Career Development Foundation in conjunction with the government and academia. Author of the top-selling Best Canadian Resumes Series, she has also been featured and published in many other leading media including The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Toronto Star, Sun Media, Zoomer Magazine, and Report on Business Television. With multiple certifications in resume, interview, and career strategy, Sharon has elevated the industry by delivering cutting-edge innovations to resume writers, career practitioners, and job seekers across Canada.
These days, with the economy in turmoil, the Canadian labour market is flooded with executive resumes for senior-level professionals looking for work. The current market has created an unfortunate situation for thousands of job seekers. Many of them are highly experienced and successful – and yet they find themselves in need of a new position.
Have you ever tried to open a door with the wrong key? No matter how hard you try to jam and jiggle the key, it just won’t open the door. Your job search works in a similar way. If you try to open the door to an opportunity, but you have the wrong key, you just won’t get in.
Today, what I want to tell you is that you already have the right key. In fact, you have the master key. It’s your ... Read more
If you are a leader in your area of expertise, you probably don’t need a resume to open doors. This might sound a little odd coming from someone who runs the top resume writing firm for leaders in Canada. My business is writing effective resumes for six-figure professionals, so why would I suggest that you might not need a resume to get a good opportunity?
Let me explain. If you are an experienced senior-level professional, your resume doesn’t hold the same sort of power that it might have had years ago. In fact, this time around, it might not be the first thing you need to succeed in your job search, but it probably is the final thing you need to close the deal.
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could see the resumes that your competitors are submitting before you apply for a position? What would you do if you could compare your resume with theirs? I suspect that you would want to revise yours to be certain it would be the very best one.
Well today is your lucky day. As a professional resume strategist, I get to see hundreds of resumes from highly qualified professionals. I’m going to share three big secrets for resume success. Come into my world; let’s see how you can significantly improve your resume.
In the last few years, you must have noticed all the excitement and uproar about The Secret. To many of us in the career industry, “The Secret” is really no secret at all. It’s the law of attraction. If you’re hoping to achieve your goals, you can use this law to your benefit.
First of all, I have to admit that the meteoric rise of the book and then the documentary “The Secret” raised a rollercoaster of emotions in me. On the one hand, I have unconsciously used this law all along. It clearly helped me to achieve many goals. But then, I look at our working world today, and I wonder why some good people who take what seem like good steps don’t achieve their goals. Through my own soul searching and a great struggle with my own faith, I came to realize something. As with most laws, the law of attraction is not a perfect law – but it does increase our chances of success.
Just about everyone has to deal with sensitive issues about their career. By including a cover letter with your resume, you can address many concerns and gain a distinct advantage over your competition.
A cover letter shows that you are a proactive professional who takes extra effort to present a complete proposal.
It displays your respect for the recipient – recruiter and/or employer – by addressing him or her directly.
It gives you the opportunity to display your personality, character, and ethics as part of your submission.
It can effectively mitigate a number of career issues by shifting the focus to your value proposition.
It allows you to concentrate on the future and hone in on how you can address the particular needs of the employer.
How much is a job worth to you? How would you feel if you were declined an offer after a background check? What if you were fired because of a misstatement in your resume?
In Canada, an employer can terminate you if they discover that you misrepresented yourself on your resume or in your interview. If your lie is found to be “material” to your employment contract, the employer could even sue you for damages. ... Read more
As a vocal advocate for ethics and integrity in our Canadian labour market, I sometimes come across websites offering questionable resume services. Clearly, there are many very good, highly qualified and certified resume writers worldwide. However, the practices of a few deceitful people can seriously harm the prospects of job seekers, and significantly discredit the complete resume and career services industry.
In this age of technology and the internet, job seekers are ... Read more
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Whether the role you are after is thousands of miles away or in a relatively close urban centre, you may find yourself being interviewed over the phone. Executive recruiters and hiring managers often use the phone interview as a way of narrowing the field of candidates when there is a relatively long list of apparently well-qualified executives vying for one ‘plum’ position. This also allows them to save the inconvenience – and cost – of travel. So what can you do to ensure that you pass the screening and make it into the next level for serious consideration?
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How much is a job worth to you? How would you feel if you were declined an offer after a background check? What if you were fired because of a misstatement in your resume?
In Canada, an employer can terminate you if they discover that you misrepresented yourself on your resume or in your interview. If your lie is found to be “material” to your employment contract, the employer could even sue you for damages. ... Read more
As a vocal advocate for ethics and integrity in our Canadian labour market, I sometimes come across websites offering questionable resume services. Clearly, there are many very good, highly qualified and certified resume writers worldwide. However, the practices of a few deceitful people can seriously harm the prospects of job seekers, and significantly discredit the complete resume and career services industry.
In this age of technology and the internet, job seekers are ... Read more
