With rising unemployment rates the job market is becoming more and more competitive. Recently at Divine Caroline, there was an article giving 5 important ways to update your resume.

“The workplace is not what it was five years ago. Neither is the job hunt. The most successful candidates are those who are ready and willing to adapt to a changing landscape. But it doesn’t matter how ready you are for the modern workplace if your resume ’s straight out of 1994.”

You’re Resume may be out of date if….

When creating award winning content you need to take into consideration the fact that many of your readers are going to be (a.) in a hurry and will skim through your article very quickly (b.) too lazy to read every word (c.) doing countless number of other random multi-tasking things while simultaneously reading your article.

For this reason it is very important that your posts are easy for people to read. There are a few simple and easy things you do to improve the overall readability of your blog.

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When you first begin your blog, starting with the very first idea that you may want to create a blog, there are a number of obstacles you will come across. Usually the idea or inspiration comes first, and then comes thoughts of layout and design. So after a month of back and forth setting up the perfectly thought out theme weighing all your choices, you can now sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor. However this is actually point where you will encounter the most difficult part of blogging. Finding your style. When you have no traffic its almost impossible to know what the masses of people expect from you.

Your first few rounds of blog posts kind of feel like open mic night at a local pub. You most likely have been working on some material up in your head for some time now, but until this day you’ve never actually said it out loud for people to hear.

The key to this is for better or worse to just put everything you’ve got out there then sit back and watch the people react. In the beginning I found myself going from one extreme to the other, trying to appeal to a variety of readers. However the more I tried to get the attention of everyone, the more I succeeded in gaining the attention of no one.

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