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THE 30-60 MINUTE JOB APPLICATION www.CULTURAMINDS.com  Average time to apply through an employer’s Appliant Tracking System “ATS” is 30-60 minutes.   There are many cumbersome technical steps from registering for an account, creating a unique password with a thousand characters, to then taking the time to clean up your so-called “parsed” resume.  At times, their sites have technical difficulties and many times of the ATS systems with call to action buttons that don’t work. Oh, and wait – there’s more!  Now of all of a sudden the system has either timed you out because you needed a potty break after being on the site for an hour. Erghhh!   And how about that employer that forces you to give them a social number, date of birth or submit for the government WOTC. Guess what?  Now your resume goes “ into the cloud” somewhere or better yet, a “ black hole ” where you never hear anything back...not even a pithy automated email from the nifty ATS sy...

  www.CULTURAMINDS.com 2019 Resumes – Don’t be a zombie! These days a resume is a personal branding tool! Your goal when writing a resume today is not to sound like a robot, but to sound like your personal brand - you! If you’re going to put a human voice in your resume for 2020, here’s how to start. Begin by getting rid of these zombietastic phrases that have been cluttering up your resume. These are the worst of the Standard Corporate Zombie Speak phrases that have been showing up in resumes since Cyndi Lauper ruled the airwaves, or before. Get rid of them as fast as you can, Revive your zombie branding document. Results-oriented professional:  What does this goofy phrase even mean? It’s become shorthand for “I don’t have a clue about what to say in my resume.” Motivated self-starter:  Talk is cheap. Anybody can call him- or herself a ‘motivated self-starter,’ Better said, “Show Them”, “At Acme Stuff - created the e-commerce site that l...