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About Michelle Dumas

Michelle Dumas is the founder and CEO of Distinctive Career Services, one of the internet's longest-standing and most respected professional resume writing firms. Michelle is a 6X certified and 7X award-winning resume writer and career consultant. To learn more about the services offered by Distinctive Career Services visit https://www.distinctiveweb.com

6 Tips to Make Conducting a Remote Job Search Fast & Easy

How to conduct an effective remote job search is a question that has vexed many working professionals who desire relocation to another location. Once upon a time, a job search was governed by the same rule that applied to the sale of real estate: 

Overcoming Shyness in Your Job Search

Are you shy?  Do you feel awkward in social settings that involve people you don't know, or perhaps even people you do? If so, then a job search and overcoming shyness is probably not your favorite project, requiring as it does networking, cold-calling, follow up

Job Hunters Beware! How To Avoid Job Search Scams

It’s no secret! Jobs scams are on the rise. And admittedly, they’ve been for years. While job scams have always existed, the evolution of the internet as the ultimate job search tool has made these scams more lucrative and relatively easier to carry out. On

Cloud Computing: How a “Cloudy” Forecast Can Help Your Job Search

By now we've all grown accustomed to the cloud.  To illustrate the impact of the cloud, recent statistics show that in 2020,  the cloud computing market exceeded $330 billion and cloud data centers will process 94% of all workloads in 2021. It's clear then,

How To Use Stories To Turn Your Job Interview Into a Job Offer

How can stories help you turn an interview into a job offer? It is simpler than you think, and the effect is powerful. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....". A simple phrase, familiar to moviegoers everywhere, and one which triggers

Expecting to Find a Job? Manage Your Expectations & Get Hired Faster

Are you in the middle of a search to find a job? It's said that satisfaction is a function of expectation, that your level of satisfaction is largely determined by how far from the expected outcome you end up.  This could apply to a relationship,

2022-11-16T18:17:25+00:00April 24th, 2013|Career Management, Job Search Advice|

12 Job Hunting Mistakes You Can’t Afford To Make: Why You Didn’t Get Hired For The Job

Searching for a job is hard work.  It doesn't matter if you're unemployed or if you are working but testing the market to see if there is indeed greener grass elsewhere. Under any circumstances, exercising the patience, vigilance, and creativity necessary to successfully find

2023-10-23T17:00:56+00:00April 4th, 2013|Job Search Advice|

5 Steps To Landing The Job: How To Follow Up After A Job Interview

The job interview is over.  You rerun it in your mind, probably repeatedly.  In so doing, however, you're actually distracting yourself from taking steps that may still impact whether you get the job or not.  After all, there's no point in herding "COWS" (Coulda, oughta,

2022-10-15T00:37:03+00:00March 27th, 2013|Job Search Interviewing|

Did You Lose Your Job? How To Get Your Mojo Back and Get Hired Quickly

Okay, let's start this with one of the most obvious and truthful statements you'll read in a "How to" piece:  Getting fired sucks.  Actually, losing your job in any fashion does.  Even if you've "only been laid off". The trauma of losing a job

2023-01-21T23:39:36+00:00March 20th, 2013|Career Management, Job Search Advice|
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