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May 7, 2013

JobTabs Releases Free Resume Builder – Free For Real

Filed under: Job Searching,Resume Writing,Sell Yourself — admin @ 1:01 am

Free makes people happy.

JobTabs Free Resume Builder is free. In fact, the JobTabs Free Resume Builder was created with the purpose being free as the very first design requirement. How so?

We are the authors of JobTabs Job Search & Resume Builder commonly known as JobTabs. JobTabs is arguably the most powerful end-to-end job search tool in the world. When people trial JobTabs and then uninstall it, we invite them to comment on what we could have done to make it better. The most common request we received was for a resume builder. We were baffled. We saw so many sites professing to have “free resume builders”. Why should we create a resume builder when they can just use one of the many free resume builders out there? It is easy to import resumes of any type into JobTabs, so what was the problem?

Finally, we decided to see what short-coming all of these free resume builders had that turned so many people away. To our shock and dismay, we discovered that none of the free resume builders were free! They would invite you to fill in your contact information, work experience, education and everything else under the sun not to mention any other information they could get from you such as industry, location, professional level, etc. They would compile the resume into a template and then show it to you. Okay, . . . . but when we would try to save the resume to our hard drive, email it, or anything other than just look at it we were denied. We couldn’t even copy the contents of the resume – we built – to the clipboard! Unless, of course, we paid them some money. These people profess to offer job seekers a free resume builder? We were appalled.

What was equally surprising is the number of sites that shared the same business model. They all offered free resumes, but wouldn’t allow you to do a single thing with it unless you paid them some money. Egads. This is bait-and-switch in its most obvious form. If you are offered a free resume builder, why shouldn’t you at least get a resume after you’ve built it?!

We were exasperated. And to have a bait-and-switch plan not on the jet-set, high-living crowd, but the segment of the population that was looking for a job. The nerve.

Welcome to a genuinely free resume builder. For real.

We need to mention that the JobTabs Free Resume Builder, is the property of JobTabs, LLC. It is licensed for free use, but it is still owned by JobTabs, LLC.

It is yours to use as you wish. Share it, email it, burn it to disk, publish it on the web, whatever you want to do. Build your resume, your friend’s resume, your roommate’s resume, yo’ mama’s resume. Most importantly, share it with someone or some group that is looking for a job. This is free software. Build your resume, export it to pdf, docx, doc, rtf, html and several other formats and send it to a prospective employer. It is time to celebrate your freedom and the freedom of so many job seekers who are unwittingly being shaken down by “free resume builders” across the web.

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John Coffey is the President of JobTabs, LLC. Through JobTabs Job Search & Resume Builder, thousands of job seekers have taken control of their destiny in finding new and fulfilling careers. JobTabs Job Search & Resume Builder motivates job seekers by making the job search easier by a huge order of magnitude. John Coffey can be reached via his website at JobTabs Job Search & Resume Builder, by email via jpcoffey at jobtabs.com, and by phone at 404-255-0248.

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February 18, 2013

JobTabs Job Search & Resume 2013 – Released!

Filed under: Job Searching,JobTabs — admin @ 12:59 pm

JobTabs, LLC announces the official release of JobTabs Job Search & Resume Builder 2013. The most powerful job searching tool on the market has now been reinforced with the inclusion of an executive grade resume builder. The resume builder takes an intuitive form fill approach to helping users create an attention getting, professionally formatted resume.

Resume Builder features include,

Four professionally designed templates from which to choose a custom layout.
Ten unique sections to choose from to include Contact Information, Professional Objective, Professional Summary, Work Experience, Education, Certifications, Awards, Affiliations, References and Personal Information.
Dynamic columns that vary from one column to four to optimize professional summaries.
Drag and drop simplicity in ordering every detail of your resume.
Export/attach/upload any resume as a pdf, docx, doc, html, rtf or text (ANSI or Unicode).
A ‘Tweakery’ which helps job seekers in covering up that last bit of glaring white space. In real time, using an interface specifically designed for tweaking, the user can tweak page margins, line spacing, date formats and even the distance between the bullet and the following text.

JobTabs Job Search & Resume Builder 2013 is built for the Windows platform and works on all Windows operating systems from Windows XP to Windows 8. It is freely downloadable from our site and contains a 15 day trial period devoid of any limitations whatsoever. There are absolutely no limitations as to what can be done with the trial version. After the 15 day trial period, the user is required to invest in a license to continue using all of the features.

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February 5, 2013

Job Seekers Doping to Land Jobs in Tough Economy

Filed under: Job Searching,JobTabs — admin @ 11:51 am

As if the Lance Armstrong revelations were not enough, dopers are beginning to show up in the most unexpected places. The job search? Believe it.

Who is Juicing?

There are literally tens of thousands of job seekers who are doping to maximize their job search prospects. In a tentative economy and a tight job market who can blame them? From a job seeker who requested to remain anonymous, “If I can send out twenty resumes in a week, each of which is ideally tailored to the job requisition with as little effort as possible, why wouldn’t I? Before I started doping, it used to take much more effort just to do five resumes a week. Now I’m getting interviews that I could never get before. The more interviews I have setup the more confident I can be; the more confident I can be, the more success I can have.” And success he has. He has an offer on the table, but is holding off on accepting it until he completes his final interview with a competitor.

While the job search is inherently difficult, job seekers are confronting employment challenges that few ever expected to face in their lifetime. Job seekers are getting no reply to the jobs they have applied to. In the absence of even a simple acknowledgement, people begin to question if they have accomplished anything of value in their career. Dejection begins to set in. Those with the fortitude to press on are saddled with a discouraging work to reward ratio. It takes too many job applications to get even a single interview. Eventually, even the most head strong job seekers begin to succumb to a sense of futility. The solitary nature of the job search compounds the sense of futility and this creates a breeding ground for doping.

What benefits are job seekers getting from doping? Tailored resumes that get results. Identifying a resume and making the modifications needed to become an ideally suited candidate is extremely easy. There is no mishmash of files and folders to encumber your effort. Select the resume, clone it, refine it, send it, exhale. Do this enough times and you will always have the perfect resume with no effort. This is where the euphoria kicks in – the job search gets easier and easier. Moreover, doping job seekers have all of their resumes automatically stripped of hidden meta data that could possibly compromise their job application. Couple that with generically named resumes, resumes backdated to a date prior to the job posting and sent in any number of formats (pdf, docx, doc, html, etc.) and you have job seekers cycling past the competition.

The job seekers dope of choice? JobTabs Job Search & Resume Builder, scientifically known as maximus paycheck regularis. On the street, locker rooms, and crack houses of America it is simply known as ‘JobTabs’. Unless the DEA intervenes, the doping is going to be an increasingly larger factor in the employment process. Whether it be JobTabs’ resume handling, networking facilities or any number of features, JobTabs is giving an advantage to job seekers who had been getting passed over.

Ultimately, all job seekers will have to make the decision as to whether or not they want inject their candidacy with what JobTabs has to offer. There are currently no tests to determine if a job seeker has been using JobTabs and there does not appear to be movement to ban JobTabs from the job application process. According to JobTabs, LLC President John Coffey, “If a job seeker can move to the top of the resume stack, as long as he complies with the law and is ethical, he has every right to do so.” He went on to say, “In a highly competitive environment, every job seeker should leverage every advantage they can. Those that refuse to adapt to the changing landscape will be left behind.”

More research can be conducted on the JobTabs phenomenon at www.jobtabs.com.

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September 1, 2012

JobTabs Job Search & Resume 2012 – Released!

Filed under: Job Searching,JobTabs,JobTabs Story — Tags: Career, jobhunt, jobsearch, jobseeker, resume — admin @ 1:24 am

JobTabs Job Search & Resume 2012 has been released. While there have been improvements across the board, we really wanted to focus on application speed and handling objects/graphics in the word processor.

Previewing Saved Jobs from the Internet is 10x faster

We reviewed the process and simply decided that we were saving too much. We eliminated much of the superfluous elements of the web pages and focused on what mattered. We also moved the process to a separate window so that it can be cancelled at will. The update messages provided by the window are much more detailed to give you the assurance that things are happening.

The crux of the word processing upgrades were necessary in order for us to implement a new product designed to complement JobTabs. More on that later. Suffice it to say that the JobTabs word processor has always worked beautifully, however we added some more functionality that we are going to need as we make JobTabs even more powerful.

Transparent Text Frames

While you could always add text frames to a cover letter or a resume in JobTabs, they had to be inline with the text. Now then can float above or behind and let the background image text show through entirely or partially.

Background Images

New support for background images allows you to insert a watermark, a CONFIDENTIAL/DRAFT disclaimer or a picture.

Object/Image Support

The JobTabs word processor supports OLE handling, images and many other objects. We made it easier to size and move them on the fly as well as maintain the aspect ratio as needed. This was especially important for job seekers who would include a signature graphic with their cover letter. The signature didn’t look like the real thing.

Prior to the upgrades, a signature couldn’t be placed directly above the typed text without covering it up.		After the upgrades, a signature can be placed above the typed text as it would normally be if it has been actually signed by the person.

In closing, a word on updating JobTabs is in order. Before ‘online updates’ went mainstream, software companies would distribute software improvements in bulk via CD or disk. One could expect lots of bells and whistles with the arrival of each annual upgrade. That was then, this is now. JobTabs is distributed over the internet and by CD upon request. Every time we improve upon JobTabs, we roll it out to our user base immediately. Why make earnest job seekers wait for a deluge of application upgrades all at once when those upgrades have already been developed? It makes no sense to us so we roll out new bells and whistles as they are developed. All registered users of JobTabs get free upgrades for an entire year after their purchase! This includes all major and minor upgrades. We look forward to serving you a steady stream of updates for as long as you will permit us to do so. : -)

John Coffey is the President of JobTabs, LLC. Through JobTabs Job Search & Resume, thousands of job seekers have taken control of their destiny in finding new and fulfilling careers. JobTabs Job Search & Resume motivates job seekers by making the job search easier by a huge order of magnitude. John Coffey can be reached via his website at JobTabs Job Search & Resume, by email via jpcoffey at jobtabs.com, and by phone at 404-255-0248.

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June 17, 2011

Inventory Your Career With A Master Resume

Filed under: Resume Writing,Sell Yourself — Tags: accomplishment, Career, employer, experience, job, JobTabs, master, resume, skills — admin @ 12:22 am

Inventory your career when job searching.

Is this straight, baby?

When my wife and I got married, we moved out of our respective domiciles and into our new home. It was a bear of a move. I remember saying to myself, “I never knew I owned this much stuff!”

And so it is with your career. It is absolutely amazing how much experience you can accumulate in a short amount of time. If you were to look back on the last twelve months of your employment,

· How many different projects did you work on?
· How many audits/reviews did you prepare for?
· How many working relationships did you have to coddle?
· How many glitches did you have to delve into just to get things moving again?
· How many new people were you introduced to?
· What were your victories? What were your defeats?

In the course of a year, it is amazing how much we have done. Now do it for the last X years of your career. You have done a lot more than you think you have.

All of this experience can be extremely valuable when you are job searching. As I have told so many job seekers, the likelihood of any job seeker getting a job that exactly mirrors their experience to date is near zero. It is highly likely that you will have to draw on the peripheral work you have done to get under the wire. In this economy, this is doubly important yet, all too often, job seekers under sell themselves. They have a few resumes and share the resume which most closely matches the position they are pursuing. Here at JobTabs we call this, The Highway to Hell.

Taking a written inventory of your accomplishments is extremely important. The best way to do this is to develop a master resume. A master resume isn’t a resume that you would actually send to anybody. It is used only to list everything you have ever done at any company. It is your personal checklist to jog your memory to see what you can come up with to be as close of a fit as possible for any job listing in which you have an interest. A master resume has no facilities you would use in a Functional Resume. It is purely chronological and used purely for your reference. There is no page limit; the longer the better. Ultimately, you want to use your master resume to copy specific accomplishments for pasting into resumes you are tailoring for a specific job. Remember, there is rarely – if ever – any job you are going to be applying to that mirrors exactly what you have been doing, so you have to be able to draw on all of your experience.

Describe each accomplishment in your master resume much as you would a regular resume. You want to be able to copy and paste from your master resume into a resume that you would send to the employer. If you do not put everything on your master resume, it is likely that you will forget what you accomplished and that hard earned work experience will be lost forever.

In addition to listing all all of your accomplishments, you may want to do the following.

Add tags.

If you have enough bullet points, it will be easier to add a tag to them to make them easier to find. Consider adding tags for leadership skills, financial skills, team building skills, managerial, helping skills, technical skills, etc. These could help you find specific experience more easily.

Add notes to yourself.

Add extra details about the specific accomplishment to include anything an interviewer might ask you. If an interviewer asks you how you quantified a certain accomplishment you want to be confident as to how you came up with those figures. Again, you are not going to include the calculations on the resume you send to the employer, but if asked in the interview you don’t want to appear unsure as to how you arrived at those figures. Add notes about people involved in the project. If there is someone who would be happy to attest to what you did, you could add their name and contact info if you need to use them as a reference. Put these notes in a different font or color so that they stand out from the body of your resume. You don’t want to risk pasting them into your real resume accidentally.

The experience that you have garnered over the course of your career is important. To let your accomplishments slip into the ether because you didn’t remember doing it is foolhardy. It can make the difference between getting the interview or getting passed over. Take inventory of your career and you will be prepared for life.

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