Optimizing your Career Fair Experience #2 Elevator speaking Perhaps you are familiar with an elevator speech, perhaps you have written one, perhaps you are clueless as to what one is. In any case, you need to be thinking of your elevator speech in your job search and especially at career fairs. Wikipedia defines an elevator…
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Cultivating Network at Career Fairs —> Extra
For those of you in the Wausau Area or wanting to come to Central Wisconsin, here is more information on the upcoming Rasmussen College Career Fair from Chris Severson/Professional Education Manager, Rasmussen College-Wausau: Here is the final list of confirmed organizations for the Career and Networking Fair. The Career Fair is Thursday, February 18th from 10AM-2PM….
Cultivating Networks at Career Fairs — #1 Preparation
Optimizing your Career Fair Experience #1 Preparation On February 18 from 10am to 2pm, I will be at Wausau’s newest learning environment, Rasmussen College at their Career and Networking Fair as their Career Expert. Among other things, I will be providing feedback on resumes and job search to job seekers. As we approach the career…
Hammocks? Ingenuity and Determination Create a Unique Business Strategy
Wausau Whitewater introduced me to many people who I would never have met otherwise. One of those people is Shawn Feddema from the Hammock Shop in Langlade, Wisconsin. I met Shawn on the Wausau Whitewater course in 2000-something. He donated some hammocks to be used as prizes for one of the freestyle rodeos. He gave…
How Much Twitter Input Can YOU Handle?
2010 is a year of experimentation for me. As my regular blog visitors know, I have made some dramatic changes in my life this year. 2010 is my year to focus on my business, Design Resumes. Let’s take Twitter for example. When I joined Twitter, initially, I was amazed that people were following me, people…
Don’t Let Your Resume Fall in the Black Hole! Gasp!
As I review existing or old resumes prior to starting a new project or see resumes posted online, I find some cardinal rule breakers, like: Happily married, with two beautiful children. As much as that sounds nice, you set off red flags for HR directors with that kind of information. If you include any of…
Hey, What Is A KeyWord Anyway?
Career professionals, like myself, who have been part of the career world for years take things for granted. We tell people to fill their resumes with key words or we do it for them. But we don’t often take the time to say why. In Key Words to Nail Your Job Interview, Wendy Enelow of…
Confessing to Twitter (well TweetDeck) Withdrawal
Creature of habit that I am, I wake up and head to the computer. This morning, Twitter locked me out. Checking my e-mail, I found instruction to change my password, which I did, not once but twice since TweetDeck didn’t want to let me change my password on it. Using Twitter just from the Twitter…
Computer Savvy? What you need to get a job!
Job Stickiness #3 a series to help you keep jobs or tips to make you sticky in the next one. Recently, my colleague, Dawn Bugni wrote two posts that both touched on the computer skills that job postings often require. In her first post, Ya But, Dawn said, “I spend a good deal of time…
