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Entrepreneur
18-05-2025
- Business
- Entrepreneur
Former VP Reveals Six Critical Résumé Mistakes That Could Cost You a Job
Former VP Reveals Six Critical Résumé Mistakes That Could Cost You a Job After reviewing more than 10,000 résumés throughout his career as a Vice President, Ethan Evans has identified... This story originally appeared on Calendar Former VP Reveals Six Critical Résumé Mistakes That Could Cost You a Job After reviewing more than 10,000 résumés throughout his career as a Vice President, Ethan Evans has identified six major mistakes that job seekers commonly make—errors that could potentially eliminate candidates from consideration before they even reach the interview stage. Evans, who has extensive hiring experience at the executive level, has developed a keen eye for spotting red flags in job applications. His insights offer valuable guidance for job seekers looking to make their résumés stand out for the right reasons. Common Résumé Blunders That Hurt Your Chances According to Evans, the first critical mistake many applicants make is failing to tailor their résumé to the specific job they're applying for. 'Generic résumés rarely make it past initial screening,' Evans notes. He emphasizes that customizing your application to highlight relevant skills and experiences that match the job description significantly increases your chances of getting noticed. The second major error involves poor formatting and organization. Evans points out that hiring managers often spend less than 30 seconds scanning a résumé initially. If your document is cluttered, hard to read, or lacks clear sections, it may be immediately discarded regardless of your qualifications. Typos and grammatical errors constitute the third mistake that Evans identifies as particularly damaging. 'These simple errors signal carelessness and lack of attention to detail,' he explains. Even a single spelling mistake can create a negative impression that's difficult to overcome. Content and Presentation Issues The fourth mistake involves focusing too much on job duties rather than accomplishments. Evans stresses that listing day-to-day responsibilities without showing measurable results fails to demonstrate your value to potential employers. He recommends using specific metrics and outcomes to showcase your impact in previous roles. Excessive length represents the fifth common error. 'Many candidates believe more information is better, but that's not the case,' Evans states. He advises keeping résumés concise—typically one page for early-career professionals and no more than two pages for those with extensive experience. The final mistake Evans highlights is including outdated or irrelevant information. This includes listing obsolete skills, very old work experiences, or personal details that don't relate to your professional capabilities. He suggests regularly updating your résumé to reflect current industry standards and removing information that doesn't strengthen your candidacy. Practical Solutions for Job Seekers Evans offers practical advice for avoiding these pitfalls: Have at least two people proofread your résumé before submission Use action verbs and quantifiable achievements Research the company and position to align your résumé with their needs Maintain a clean, consistent format with adequate white space Focus on recent, relevant experience that matches the job requirements 'The résumé is your first opportunity to make an impression,' Evans says. 'It should be treated as a marketing document that sells your skills and experience in the most compelling way possible.' For job seekers facing a competitive market, addressing these six common mistakes could make the difference between landing an interview or facing continued rejection. Evans suggests that applicants take the time to review their résumés through the eyes of a hiring manager, asking themselves if the document clearly and quickly communicates their value proposition. By avoiding these critical errors, candidates can significantly improve their chances of making it through the initial screening process and securing interviews for positions that match their qualifications and career goals. The post Former VP Reveals Six Critical Résumé Mistakes That Could Cost You a Job appeared first on Calendar.
CBC
06-04-2025
- Politics
- CBC
How to engage young voters in the upcoming federal election
Social Sharing In the last federal election, young people aged 18 to 24 had the lowest turnout of all age groups — 47 per cent, per Elections Canada figures. In order to increase youth turnout this election, students and experts say political parties should tailor their campaigns to younger voters. Parties should first focus on educating new voters on the electoral process, says Ethan Evans, a fourth-year political science student at McMaster University in Hamilton. "When I started my post-secondary education, I didn't even fully understand which issues were provincial and federal," Evans said. His classmate, Jean-Luc Lambert agrees. He says many of his friends outside school don't follow politics at all — either because they don't think their vote matters, or because they believe political parties aren't targeting them enough in their campaigns. "My friends have no idea what's going on," Lambert said. "They often hear different opinions from each political party and have no idea what to believe is true or false. That makes them care less about elections and voting." Parties could do a better job targeting youth in their campaigns, especially when it comes to issues like housing affordability and climate change, says Mackenzie Barwell, another fourth-year political science student at McMaster. "When the youth hear any politicians talking about our future and protecting it, even that word specifically really resonates," Barwell said. "We're not necessarily thinking about right now, we're thinking about down the line." Reaching young voters through social media Many young voters say social media is the best place for parties to reach people their age. "That's where young people are at right now, and that's the direction they have to take to engage people," said Tynan Webb, another fourth-year political science student at McMaster. Online platforms offer a variety of tools political parties can use to target young voters, according to Harneet Singh, managing principal and digital strategist at EOK Consults. WATCH | The issues driving young voters: What's driving young voters in Canada's federal election? 9 days ago Duration 2:06 With Canada's 45th federal election coming up, Gen Z voters are determined to make an impact, with many of them casting ballots for the first time. Their participation will play a role in determining the outcome of the election. As Elections Canada aims to engage this younger demographic, we asked young voters about the issues driving them to the polls. For instance, he says short-form content, such as Instagram reels or stories, tend to resonate with youth. Parties can also use microtargetting tools on these platforms to tailor content to the audience they want to reach. "People can be targeted based on their interests in sustainability, fashion, online use," Singh said. Some platforms also use artificial intelligence, which helps political parties draft captions for their posts and test which ones resonate best with audiences, Singh said. "There's so much possibility in terms of how campaigns can smartly target the way these young people are consuming their media and their information and use that to engage more young people to get the results they want," he said. Online platforms also allow politicians to collaborate with popular influencers — a trend politicians seem to be already following. For instance, Liberal Leader Mark Carney chose to film a short video with comedian Mike Myers, which got millions of views on X, while Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre chose to be interviewed by controversial psychologist and podcast host Jordan Peterson. Despite the popularity of online platforms, some youth say the algorithms affect the type of political content they are seeing. WATCH | What some young voters care about: What issues matter to young voters this election? 9 hours ago Duration 9:52 When fourth-year McMaster political science student Justin Duffy downloaded TikTok for the first time a few weeks ago, he says the majority of the videos in his feed were conservative leaning or were directly promoting Pierre Poilievre. He says he believes many men his age get shown the same type of content, which could make it difficult for other parties to reach that demographic. "Social media, based on any minimum information, will choose something to target towards you," Duffy said. "If that's all you're seeing, it's so easy to get swept up in that echo chamber. Obviously, that's what you're gonna believe." In-person meetings recommended by some experts Catherine Corriveau, a senior manager with the Democratic Engagement Exchange, says she views online content as merely a point of entry to engage youth. Whether it be on college and university campuses or near transit stations, the best way to get young voters to the polls is through in-person conversations, Corriveau says. "Voting is truly a muscle that needs to be exercised. For many young people, it's the first time they're going to have to do it. So we need to support them in this process," she said. She says political parties should specifically focus on adapting the language they use in their campaigns to target young people. "Otherwise, they'll say, 'this isn't really speaking to what matters to me' or 'I don't really understand what me going to vote is going to do for me because they're not speaking my language, they're not speaking to issues that impact my day to day life,'" Corriveau said. What are political parties doing? Liberal Party spokesperson Jean-Christophe Armstrong told Radio-Canada via email that the party's policies have been developed to ensure a better quality of life for all Canadians, youth included. "From taking real action to fight climate change to cutting taxes for the middle class, and investing in affordable housing, Mark Carney's Liberals are focused on delivering change that will build a stronger Canada for young Canadians," Armstrong said. Meanwhile, the Green Party says it's encouraging its candidates to visit university campuses before voting day, and the NDP says it's making greater use of digital platforms to reach more young people. WATCH | How to understand political polling: Making sense of opinion polls this federal election 2 days ago Duration 6:40 With federal party leaders on the campaign trail, pollsters are closely tracking who Canadians plan to support with their vote. CBC Ppoll analyst Eric Grenier helps makes sense of opinion polls and their accuracy. Young people are looking for a party that will fight to restore housing affordability and quality health care, in addition to taking action to protect the environment, NDP spokesperson Rebecca Elming said. "Our party is speaking to these issues directly, and we're doing it in the places where young people are," she said. "We've got great ads running on digital platforms and Jagmeet Singh is engaging with young Canadians in the places where they spend their time." The Conservative Party of Canada did not respond to Radio-Canada's request for comment prior to publication.
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Ex-Amazon Gaming Exec Explains Why No One Has Beaten Steam
A surprising contradiction sits at the heart of PC gaming: the medium's most open platform is nevertheless dominated by a single storefront. That storefront belongs to Valve, it's called Steam, and despite plenty of challenges in the two decades since it launched, no one has yet come close to unseating the Counter-Strike maker's grip on the PC gaming market. Amazon was one of the companies that tried, and one of its retired VPs recently explained his take on why nobody has succeeded. 'As VP of Prime Gaming at Amazon, we failed multiple times to disrupt the game platform Steam,' Ethan Evans, who retired as VP of Prime Gaming in 2020 after a 15-year stint at the company, wrote on LinkedIn last week. 'We were at least 250x bigger, and we tried everything. But ultimately, Goliath lost.' Evans listed three initiatives Amazon pursued to try and steal PC gaming market share away from Steam. The first was acquiring a small PC game store called Reflexive Entertainment and trying to scale it. The second was building out its own PC game store and using Twitch's popularity to drive players toward it. Finally, there was Luna, Amazon's game streaming service. None of these made a dent, and efforts by EA, Ubisoft, Bethesda and other publishers to build stores by locking their respective PC games behind annoying proprietary launchers eventually failed as well. Even the Epic Games Store, launched back in 2017, is still a Fortnite launcher first and a Steam rival second. Despite giving away tons of free games every year to people just for logging on, Epic's storefront feels like its stalled out (though lots of new features are on the way in 2025). 'The mistake was that we underestimated what made consumers use Steam,' Evans wrote. 'It was a store, a social network, a library, and a trophy case all in one. And it worked well. At Amazon, we assumed that size and visibility would be enough to attract customers, but we underestimated the power of existing user habits. We never validated our core assumptions before investing heavily in solutions. The truth is that gamers already had the solution to their problems, and they weren't going to switch platforms just because a new one was available.' What the retired executive is essentially saying is that Amazon thought people would show up simply because it was Amazon, when if it really wanted to take Steam on, it needed to actually give players a reason to switch. 'We needed to build something dramatically better, but we failed to do so,' he wrote. 'And we needed to validate our assumptions about our customers before starting to build. But we never really did that either. Just because you are big enough to build something doesn't mean people will use it.' It's a testament to Valve as much as it's an indictment of C-suite brain rot. For all of the valid criticism of Steam—the lack of moderation, terrible discovery tools, Nazi-ridden forums, and aging infrastructure—it still works pretty damn well. Then you have all of the ecosystem lock-in, from the social network aspect to new Steam sales adding more cheap games to players' libraries every season. Plus it's now basically the de facto launching ground for the biggest unexpected hits of any given year, from Balatro to Palworld. In addition to everything else, Steam is one of the main drivers of the attention economy around gaming, which is why a cool timed exclusive might hit the Epic Games Store and you never hear a peep about it. It doesn't feel great that one company controls so much about one of the largest and fastest-growing ways people play games, but then again it also sucked when companies tried to compete by making everyone maintain five different windows for booting up PC games. Maybe instead of competing for market share and platform dominance, more companies could follow GOG in creating a DRM-free future for PC gaming. Unlikely, but no more so than unseating Steam at this point. . For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Yahoo
19-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Watch: Rams punter Ethan Evans deadlifts 800 pounds in Instagram video
Ethan Evans is at it again. The Los Angeles Rams punter recently posted an insane weightlifting video on his Instagram of him deadlifting 800 pounds. The impressive feat is an improvement on his earlier best of 775 pounds from a week ago, almost two years after he went viral for deadlifting 770 pounds before his rookie season. Ethan Evan's… 800 pounds.. unarguably the Strongest Punter in the world… 🌎🦾 — Rams Tapes 🇵🇷 (@RamsTapes) February 18, 2025 The post earned some solid feedback from Indianapolis Colts punter and current ESPN personality Pat McAfee. "🗣🗣 ABSOLUTE DAWG," McAfee posted. Rams long snapper Alex Ward also said Evans is "gonna need a longer bar soon there..." Evans' Instagram page is littered with weight-lifting videos, including a 671-pound squat. The 6-foot-3, 250-pound punter has consistently used the #puntersarepeopletoo hashtag for his posts, too, to show off the strength of people that play his position. Evans has been L.A.'s starting punter for 33 games since being drafted in the seventh round in 2023. He's punted 118 times for an average of 47.7 yards per punt during that span as well as kicked 161 kickoffs at an average of 64 yards with an 86.3% touchback rate. Evans' net punt yards of 41.5 in 2024 ranked 15th in the NFL. This article originally appeared on Rams Wire: Watch: Rams punter Ethan Evans deadlifts 800 pounds in Instagram video
