Monthly Archives: January 2010

Plan Ahead or Prepare to Fail

Job Stickiness #5 a series to help you keep jobs or tips to make you sticky in the next one. The challenge was the bathtub drain, a reoccurring problem related to many factors: the normal hair, soap, and dirt that build up over time. A house perpetually under construction means more drywall dust and other debris …

Nutritional Chaos

Job Stickiness #4 a series to help you keep jobs or tips to make you sticky in the next one. I couldn’t even write this post until I ate. I was looking for a food photo and could feel the hypoglycemic response building in me. Irritability, anger… crabbiness, wow, is that all food-related? For me, it…

Changing your Focus

Job Stickiness #3 a series to help you keep jobs or tips to make you sticky in the next one. For anyone who really pays attention, there was a different blog post here this morning. But after reflection, I decided I didn’t like the post enough to keep it. I’ve never done that before, annihilated a…

Organization & Job Stickiness: The Colored Pen To-Do List

Job Stickiness – #2 - a series that can help us keep jobs or tips to make us stick in the next one. What do colored pens have to do with Job Stickiness? The previous Job Stickiness post talked about Maximizing Your Energy Levels, how finding what your best times to work (and sleep) can make…

Maximizing Your Energy Levels

Job Stickiness: Post 1 – a series that can help us keep jobs or tips to make us stick in the next one We all have times that we are most effective. Some of us are morning people, some of us are night owls, some of us will suffer if we drink too much caffeine…

Moving On…

This is the first blog post I had to get permission to write… from my son! Anyone who has been following me for a bit on this blog will know that I made a huge decision in December to resign as Operations Manager of Wausau Whitewater. This means many changes including sending off all of…

If we all worked together, what would happen?

Last week I met (and met with) Shawn Blackwell from Wausau To Go for the first time. We had chatted on LinkedIn and he had called previously to schedule an appointment to chat about social media, marketing, and to learn how I work as a career professional. As we talked about Facebook, he said he…

Brand Confusion as a Job Seeker

When I was interviewed by Ken Bishop, the Way-Cup Show personality from 89Q, it was very first time for an interview as Julie, the career marketing communications professional and Design Resumes. In the past, I did multiple interviews for print, radio, and television but in my prior role with Wausau Whitewater. Ironically, I was also taught…

Are you sitting on the sidelines?

In yesterday’s post, Use It for Good – the Haiti Connection, I explained how Haiti’s earthquake became personal when I read a post from Jaclyn at church asking for prayer. Suddenly I understood that the international students who were and are part of my worship came from Haiti. When I talked to Jaclyn, I told…

Use it for Good – the Haiti Connection

Some days, I’m just a little slow. I saw the information on TV about the Haiti earthquake and it impacted me in much the way so many of the things happening in the media do. I absorbed it and it passed me by. Then I saw a Facebook note by Coy Sawyer at 89Q and…