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From our partner site, The Resume Wonders Blog, here’s a fantastic argument for nicety in the workplace.  Whether you’ve got a job or not, it more often than not pays to be nice in your professional life…

Being Nice Does Matter in Finding Your Dream Job

This week was the kick off of the 9th season of American Idol.  Every year I say I am not going to watch it, but somehow the show finds its way on to the screen of my television. I tell myself, just the first night… to get a feel for what this season may hold.

I admit that I watched the whole show and towards the end, when there were only a few contestants left, a man entered the room for his very long awaited audition …

Creating a virtual resume is all the buzz lately.  Essentially, you use a website to create your resume, design it, fill in the details, and then it allows you to have it posted online with its own web address for employers to access easily.  You can post a link to it from your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or other social networking sites, and you can respond to job ads quickly by adding a link to your resume in your e-mail to an employer.

So, where do you create a virtual resume gem, and how much is it going to set you back?  The good news is that most resources are FREE at the moment, and there are a few websites you should check out:

CeeVee.com This website was started in Romania in June 2008, and …

In a Family Guy episode a few years ago, Stewie manages to take over the world.  One of his first acts as world leader is to send people to Word Camp for using words like “irregardless” and “a whole nuther.”  And if I lived in his world, I would have applied to be Word Camp Warden.  There are some words and phrases that need to be taken out back and shot (not that phrase of course, it’s fantastic).

MSNBC.com has a timely article about the catch phrases that are too often tossed around in the professional realm and really ought to call 2009 their last year of existence.

You can read the full article here, which includes examples of the phrase being used in case you have no idea what the hell they …

I just read about a hiring survey conducted by the Human Capital Institute and TheLadders.com.  Over half the employers surveyed said that they are leaving many positions unfilled because of a lack of qualified candidates.  That’s right, during a recession in which millions of people are out of work, positions are sitting unfilled for months because employers aren’t getting the right kind of candidates to apply.

One fascinating quote from the article: “Human resources spends too much time sifting through résumés for people who aren’t remotely qualified, and can’t find many that are. “We’ve gotten close to 300 résumés for a service coordinator position. Out of that we brought in four people,” she said.”

So, how can you break out of the crowd and make sure that your resume screams I’M QUALIFIED, HIRE …

Craiglist is sort of a catch-all website when you need to find something.  Anything.  For those of you unfamiliar with Craigslist, it’s a want-ad website that allows users (anyone under the sun pretty much) to post ads for things they want to sell, give away, find, purchase, or apply for.  College students use Craigslist to find apartments, roommates, furniture, events, and classes.  Everyone can use Craiglist to find collectibles, auto parts, travel deals, boats (yeah, boats), romance, and discussions about every hot topic imaginable.

If none of this interests you whatsoever, you can at least check out the Best of Craiglist for a good laugh.

But what about using Craigslist to find a job? …

I googled the phrase “write a resume” and received 33,600,000 hits.  Yeah, 33 million resources on how to write a resume exist online.  And I love my readers so much that I went through every single one of them and pulled out the 5 best resume writing resources on the web.  And one video…

Alright, that’s not entirely true, but I did seek out the resources I know and love and have always recommended to my students and friends to write their resumes.  And here they are:

About.com’s Resume Section:

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/resumes/Resumes.htm

The Riley Guide’s Resume and Cover Letter Section:

http://www.rileyguide.com/letters.html

DumbLittleMan.com’s How to Write a Resume that will Land an Interview:

http://www.dumblittleman.com/2009/01/how-to-write-resume-that-will-land.html

Mahalo.com’s How to Write a Resume:

http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-write-a-resume

Harvard Business Publishing’s How to Write a Resume that Doesn’t Annoy People:

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/silverman/2009/06/how-to-write-a-resume-that-doe.html

HowCast.com’s How to Resume: