Let's face it - $40 doesn't go that far today. It won't buy dinner, let alone dinner and a movie. It won't fill your gas tank. It won't buy a really good pair of shoes. Heck, it frequently doesn't cover your monthly gym membership. Today, forty bucks has become small change. Yet everyone's still working hard to earn it and figure out how to use it to Read More >

Resume Writers: Have you entered the TORIs and never been nominated, or been nominated and then not won? TORI winner, Kim Robb Baker's story is exactly one many resume writers can benefit from reading. She writes: If you have entered TORIs n the past but are feeling overwhelmed this year: Twice I've won TORIs for resumes I submitted in previous years Read More >

Quite often it seems resume writers look at the TORI winners and get caught up on the folks who are sweeping awards and winning multiple categories. But that's NEVER always the case! Consider Paula Christensen's 2018 TORI experience:  Initially I was too intimidated to enter the TORI competition. You see, I had studied the TORI winners since beginning Read More >

There are just 24 more days to enter the TORI 2019 resume awards. I was speaking to TORI winner Marie Plett on Thursday, and she reiterated the successes she has had from her nominations and wins. With the immense value it has had to her business, she urged me to again share it with you this year. I knew you would want to learn how her $200 TORI Read More >

The Toast of the Resume Industry (TORI) awards have been around in one form or another since the year 2000. Many years ago we instituted standardized 8.5x11 size and the recommendation to use US English for these reasons: A4 resumes saved in PDF were having ocassional issues in layout shifts when the judges reviewed them, and that made it hard to Read More >