Resume & Cover Letters

For the record, cover letters are still a thing. Contrary to popular belief, there is still a need or a purpose for an additional letter that accompan ...

You have your reasons for being away from work - from taking a short break from your career, to struggling to land a job, to personal reasons such as ...

TO begin with, let me define a cover letter. It is a letter that accompanies your resume and introduces you, highlighting your reasons for sending the ...

Remember that candidate who came in six months ago?This is how most conversations start when a job opens up in Singapore.Previous interviewees have al ...

Your cover letter presents your intentions, qualifications, and availability to a prospective employer in a succinct, appealing format. Its your first ...

Entry into the working world is exciting, especially after years of hard studying. But besides the joy of leaving your books behind, many young gradua ...

Your resume for a social media job should showcase your knowledge of data, the latest tools and of course all the trends. Having a job in social media ...

So, youve spotted your dream job posted online. Youre feeling super charged and ready to apply, but theres just one problem - you have zero relevant w ...

Cover letters are a waste of time.No recruiter has time to read your cover letter.If half of people dont bother with a cover letter, why would you?Wev ...

A powerful resume is the first crucial step to start a job search. It is the door to an interview and later to a job. A recruiter typically spends les ...

Landing a job in social media is more than playing around on Facebook and sharing pictures of perfectly arranged flatlays in good lighting.Working in ...

Thousands of CVs pour into the inbox of a recruiter each day. To get through them all, a hiring manager probably spends no longer than six seconds sca ...

Monster Interview Coach One step forward one step back step together, and back again. To perform the negotiation dance, you must have a good sense of ...

Monster Resume Expert Monsters career experts often receive questions about how to handle job-hopping and long periods of unemployment on the resume. ...

CVs are called a variety of things . There is no universally accepted format. The most important attribute of a successful CV is that it clearly expl ...

Your number one priority when writing a CV and a covering letter is to imagine what the reader wants to know and hear. And what the recruiter wants to ...

Monster Resume Expert The Additional Information section in Monsters Resume Builder is optional, but you can use it to help you secure more job interv ...

Young graduates face one of the hardest tasks in all CV writing, which is how to differentiate themselves from everyone else and not come across as a ...