Career Advancement with Craig Ancel Craig Ancel

How to Get Unstuck in Your Job and Advance
Today's show is for you if you need to be more appreciated or recognized!
Only you can decide when enough is enough.
If you're serious about change and ready to advance these tips will help!
You might be ready to advance internally or look outside your company.
Either way, you'll have some options when it comes to advancing in your career.
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Help! My resume is too long!

I know resumes are not a popular topic!

The unfortunate truth, they are a necessary evil.

Do you know where your resume is and when it was last updated?

As you gain work experience, additional training, and education your resume grows in length!

You now have the opposite problem you had when you entered the workforce. Now, it's not what you can scrape together to build a resume, it's what needs to come off.

I'll share what the acceptable resume page lengths are and when stays and goes once you gain experience!
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How to Increase Your Pay

When you were young, you might have been told, "Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life."

That sounds too good to be true.

But either way, whether you find your dream job or not, you still should be paid what you're worth.

The problem is that sometimes our efforts and actions aren't seen in a way that benefits us during pay/performance reviews.

Here's how to improve your situation and increase your pay!
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The What & How Behind a Cover Letter
Are you skipping job postings that require or recommend a cover letter?
If so, chances are that most others are also!
Find out the importance of cover letters.
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Always Have an Ask
Are you interested in a promotion or broadening your abilities?
What would happen if you had that unique opportunity to meet an executive from your company?
Today's show touches briefly on "Elevator Pitches", but adds a powerful point.
You should Always Have an Ask for that chance meeting with executives.
Otherwise, you might just chat about the weather or something else trivial.
Then, in 15-30 seconds your special opportunity was gone!
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How Does Your Resume Feel?
The word "resume" can be a dirty word.
Many times it's create it and forget it.
Today, I ask you to locate it, dust it off, and see what it makes you feel.
That's right - before a human reads it they scan it.
Your resume's structure, content, and format are more important than you think!
Find out how important the feel of your resume is.
And, see how to get the upper hand when updating your resume!
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