Yesterday I shared the story of my own job loss. The lengthy post describes the lead-up and let down of the job loss and unemployment. I put the dates in the post, 1987. What I never fully said was that though we had worked for the same company since 1981, the whole transfer and job…
Monthly Archives: August 2010
My own job loss
People often ask me the back story behind how Design Resumes was formed. The business and even the name of the business was a fluke in the beginning. I started writing resumes in 1983 as a response to a little ad we placed to gain some additional income. We had purchased a very basic computer…
Let’s Ketchup!
This last eight months have been a whirlwind for me in many ways. It pretty much started with my departure from Wausau Whitewater and a renewed focus on my own business, Design Resumes. I detailed much of the goals, results and setbacks here. I also talked about the importance of planning ahead very recently. For…
Somebody to lean on
Lean on me. Yesterday when I wrote this post, What’s on my heart, I had the song, Lean on me, running in my head. Amazingly, on facebook, I saw two references to it yesterday and this morning when I took the time to watch this video that Dawn Bugni shared from another colleague, I heard…
What’s on my heart?
I’m in the business of creating career marketing strategies for job seekers. This is not new to me. I have been doing this for 25+ years. How I do it has changed and the level of complexity of the job search has changed. Our global communication has changed and we know what is happening instantly…
Why do you see search boxes on blogs?
I would guess that there are some people who just don’t know why a blogger would put a search engine on their own blog, isn’t Google good enough? Look over there on the right. See my search button? Just in case you missed it, it looks like this: This might shock you but I actually…
6 misconceptions about cover letters!
The question of cover letters has been one that I have been asked continually since I started in the career industry. When do you use one? What are they? Do I use one at all? To clarify, I asked my colleague, Dawn Bugni from The Write Solution to join us to help list and…
Jobseeker, whose court is the ball in? YOURS!
Frustrated when no one seems to be returning your calls or you are getting dead silence after an interview? Michael Lunsford, a Twitter friend, sent me this idea and thought it might help some of you. He said my tweet about an old sales technique I was suggesting for decision making reminded him to think…
Are you talking about us? Choosing a Resume Writer
A tight knit community, the career industry community (resume writers, career coaches, and creators of career marketing tools) typically knows when someone is talking about us. Here’s the interesting thing, though there are now huge resume firms that buy millions of dollars of advertising, the industry was started by people like me. Who are we?…
Are you limiting your network?
Where do you think your network is and where do you think it could be? If you would have asked me that question two or three years ago, I would have pretty much told you Wisconsin or even central Wisconsin. My business has changed exponentially in the last year in many ways but the largest…
