Greetings loyal users and guests!

ResumeBucketBlog.com celebrated it’s first birthday on Novemeber 27th, 2009! Not only are we still quite alive and kicking but it’s amazing to think how far we’ve come… And we are just getting warmed up! We want to thank every single one of our readers and subscribers for the positive e-mails, especially the ones about getting that call-back after applying the no-B.S. tips our blog has been providing for free over this past year. Those of you new to our site should definitely check out our archived blog posts for quality tips and information about the job hunt.

As some of you know ResumeBucket.com works closely with one of the top recruiting companies in California, so close in fact that I can bank a paper ball off the CEOs head and into the trashcan! This puts us on the cutting edge enabling us to monitor industry trends in real-time, like what do hiring managers and recruiters really look at on your resume? Or, Resume Writing Tips and How to Interview – just to name a few. These are all questions with constantly changing answers. For instance cover letters are dying fast (to the joy of HR departments everywhere). Unless you are explicitly asked to write one, save your time and some trees (You’ll make Al Gore proud). Use the time you would have been spending on the cover letter to build out an excellent Linkedin.com profile (which we will explaining soon!). It’s 2009! Social Media is your friend, but be sure to use it correctly, another upcoming “How To” blog to look forward too.

Stay tuned. Bookmark us. To celebrate our one year we will be rolling out some major changes to the format and content to make ResumeBucketBlog.com, evolving us to an even more efficient resource!  We’ll be leaking out these changes over the course of this week so stay tuned, and as always, we want to hear from you! What would you like to see here? What type of brick walls have you ran into during your job search? Remember – ResumeBucket.com is all about us helping you for free! It may not be the most profitable business model but we haven’t had a complaint yet!

Heartfelt Thanks from the ResumeBucket team to You,

Upcoming blogs this week:

“Following Up After an Interview”
“Following Up After Submitting a Resume”
“How to Write a Resume version 2.0 – The most detailed crash course online”
“2009 Job Industry Wrap Up: What Have We Learned?”