When it comes to searching for a job, it can overwhelm your entire life – at least it feels like it. You put in all these hours crafting an awesome resume, more hours seeking out job openings that interest you (and some that really don’t), and after multiple follow up calls you feel like you’ve accomplished something. Yet, after failed interviews, or no interviews at all, you feel like you’ve just lost a life in the game of job seeking and are back at the first level all over again. Frustrated, you’re ready to throw that computer and your resume out the window.

Before you do that, we want to let you in on a few secrets that will help curb that frustration. Here are 8 job search secrets that you need to know now:

Secret #1: 80% of job openings are never even posted online.

What?! 80%! Surely we’re joking right? Nope. Believe it or not, but the vast majority of job postings that you are scouring through are only the tip of the iceberg. Most of the...

How Painting By Numbers Colors In Your Resume

We’ve probably all heard the phrase, “Lies, damned lies, and statistics”?

Well, hopefully we are all in agreement that you never, ever lie on your resume – period.

However, numbers, and especially the right numbers, can play an incredibly powerful role in getting key messages across on your resume, and getting them across in a way that really catches the eye of the hiring manager. Using numbers to quantify your achievements, your skills, your attendance record or your personal development, can have incredible impact, and after all, impact is what you’re aiming for isn’t it?

Speaking the Employer’s Language

Look at it this way: numbers are just another language. It’s not rocket science. All we’re doing is using the same language to describe our achievements that employers use to evaluate staff performance.

Just about every single one of us has our performance at work assessed using...