You only get one chance to make a good first impression. For most job applicants, your first impression would depend on the design of you resume. LifeClever has come up with a useful tutorial on how to soup it up with MS-Word.
Among the tips they provide in their tutorial is:

Pick a better typeface [...]

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Kathy Sierra of ‘Creating Passionate Users’ has come up with a set of rules you can use for your upcoming presentations. The premise of her piece revolves around the fact that too many people provide too much context espeically at the begining of the presentation, thus killing the mood completely.

Do NOT start at the [...]

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When you meet someone for the first time, handshakes will play a crucial role in your introduction. It will affect the first impression you give others, and as you know, you only get ONE chance to make a good FIRST impression. Ask Men has a list of handshake styles to stay away from.
The [...]

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As business today becomes more mobile, text messaging will play a larger role in the way we communicate. Tom from OpenLoops has some great tips about how best to go about Text Messaging.
Here are 5 of my favourites:

Don’t replace all communication with texts - Know when to communicate in person, by phone, or email.
Don’t [...]

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Leaving an effective voice message is an important part of conducting business. Failing to do so may result in your call not being returned, or even worse, annoying the other party.
Here’s a step by step walkthrough on how to give an effective voicemail:

Say your name when you pick it up. Don’t assume [...]

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The word ‘but’ is more damaging than it looks when used in a discussion. Agreeing with someone and then saying ‘but’, may completely undermine your efforts to be understanding and agreeable. Those three letters somehow have an ability to kill everything good that you said before it.
Instead try the following example:
“I agree with [...]

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I’m a recovering academic: a university lecturer that chose to leave the ivory tower because, frankly, I prefer my own company. I still run into young students, however, who are keen to work in academe and pump me for advice. In the true spirit of the internet, here’s my take on how to succeed [...]

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Meetings inescapable in a corporate environment. They can either be long boring nightmares, or they can be very productive groups. Not surprisingly, a lot of it depends on how the meeting is run. Take a look at Businessweek’s interesting article on how Google’s Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice-president of search products, runs her meetings.

Set a [...]

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In case you hadn’t noticed, registrations began on Tuesday for .mobi top level domain names for mobile wireless devices and cell phones.
Names are available on a first-come first-serve basis, though many common domain names have already been awarded to wireless companies and trademarked names.
The .mobi domain is managed by Mobile Top Level Domain, which [...]

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Traveling long distance can be quite an ordeal, especially when you’re doing it from the crammed confines of the ‘economy seats’ section. The Asian Association of Travel agents recently issued this list of tips to get your seat upgraded.

Join a frequent flyer program: If you’re one of their most valued customers, it’s only [...]

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Your CV is often the first sight an employer gets of you. Here are ten tips to improve the impression recruiters get of you:

Whatever the layout, a CV should look well designed. Print it with a laser-printed on fresh, good quality paper.
Keep your CV to 2 sides in length, with each side on a [...]

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Kathy Sierra of ‘Creating Passionate Users’ has put together this set of tips about how to cut through the noise, and get someone’s attention.
Everything revolves around this golden rule:

“The secret is to be more provocative and interesting than anything else in their environment.”

To pull this off, she gives the following tips:

Be Visual
Be Different–Break Patterns [...]

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If you have to put together an effective and communicative Keynote or PowerPoint presentation for the first time, don’t panic. Follow these simple steps and you’ll wow them in the back rows.

Remember: content is king

Research your topic thoroughly.
Make sure any images you use to illustrate your presentation are appropriate to the point(s) you [...]

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Quick Online Tips has a timely reminder: make sure you update your domain contact address in time before someone else grabs it.
I have to admit that I managed to lose a website I’d been running for three years because of this. Events conspired but it was basically my own fault: I happened to [...]

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You’ve spent a lot of time preparing your latest presentation, put in the perfect visuals to emphasize your points, but now discover that your PowerPoint file is gigantic in file size!  How do you get it into a smaller more palatable size?
Simplebyte offers a 5 step solution to work your way around this:

Trim and compress your [...]

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