Are You Innovative Enough with Your Resume?

Posted on January 6, 2014 by bermanevansretail
For anyone currently in the job market, it is important to recognize and adapt to new trends in resume design. Be innovative! 🙂 Yet, also recognize that the traditional resume format is still important!!
Jessica Holbrook Hernandez, writing for Careerealism, offers several tips with regard to emerging resume trends. Here are FIVE of them:
  1. Social media resume — “There are plenty of sites you can use to do this. Here are two: careercloud.com, visualcv.com, and the list goes on.”
  2. Infographic resume — “In the right context and the right industry, this type of resume is very successful.”
  3. Facebook timeline resume — “This could help add to your professional brand, direct what hiring managers see about you, and also position you as a subject matter expert.”
  4. Video resume — “Multiple sites offer you the ability to upload a video resume — visualcv.com, careerbuilder.com, sparkhire.com, jobster.com — or include it on your blog or Web site.”
  5. Wordle — “This is a neat word cloud creator, and you can use it to find the most common words contained within some specific text. You can use Wordle to check job ads and see the keywords that pop up most often.”
For more tips from Holbrook Hernandez, click the image.

 

 

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A Look at Kearney’s 2013 Global Retail Development Index

Posted on January 3, 2014 by bermanevansretail
Each year, A. T. Kearney reports its Global Retail Development Index, which provides a great look at retail opportunities around the world.
As Kearney notes in reporting its 2013 index:
“Retailers are taking a step back from rapid expansion strategies as they move into developing markets. The 2013 A.T. Kearney Global Retail Development Index (GRDI)  reflects some important changes to the retail environment. But one thing hasn’t changed: As developed markets face flat or anemic growth, developing markets remain important sources of growth. The 12th annual edition of the GRDI finds many opportunities for retailers seeking to grow and expand in fast-growing developing markets big and small.”
Take a look at this Kearney chart. Click on it to read more.

 

 

 

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Retailing: From A to Z — The Most Popular Posts of 2013

Posted on December 30, 2013 by bermanevansretail
Thanks so much for stopping by this blog. We hope you have enjoyed it — and learned a thing or two 🙂
As our year-end recap, here the top ten most popular posts at Retailing: From A to Z by Joel Evans for 2013. Take another (or a first) look. They are listed in order of the number of views.
  1. Can Car Manufacturers Sell Direct and Bypass Dealers?
  2. The Retail Employers on Fortune’s 2013 “Best Companies to Work For” List
  3. Von Maur Looking to Become a National Department Store Chain
  4. A New Infographic on Global Retailing Trends
  5. A QR Code Infographic
  6. CSA’s State of the Industry: 2013
  7. Ten Trends Affecting Consumer Behavior in 2013
  8. Technology Trends and Retailing
  9. Shopping Smarter at J. Crew
  10. Retail Marketing: A Look at Media Trends

 

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