Jaclyn Wissmueller, from the Wausau law firm of Strasser and Yde, S.C., asked me to speak to the Brown County Association for Legal Professionals on how to use online resources like Twitter and Facebook to communicate. Jaclyn and I know each other from our church. She followed my blog since the Haiti earthquake when I…
Monthly Archives: September 2010
5 Reasons to Check Your Attitude
At our monthly Christian Business Leaders meeting, the conversation turned to the economy, the growing unemployment rate, and how business owner’s evaluate both their present employees as well as who they hire when they do have openings. Everyone in the room nodded in agreement when Jim, owner of a commercial and residential HVAC company said,…
Is it time to invest?
I fielded a client call from an individual who will be working with me to create her resume and strategize marketing approaches to launch her new career. As we discussed the details of working together, she repeated what she had said in our prior conversation, “You are an investment for me, I need you!” I…
Career change or job search? Don’t Throw in the TOWEL!
It is very easy to give up! You can throw in the towel. You can say I quit. You can say I can’t. Or you can get out there and fight. You can give it your all. You can do your best. You can keep on going when everything is going wrong. You can change…
Don’t put your eggs all in one basket!
I work with a wide range of job seekers. Some are totally plugged in and understand how critical networking is to the process of job search. Others seems to hang only on using the advertised listings and the job boards for openings. All their eggs in one basket! What’s wrong with that? When you are…
Is this a good time for you to talk?
When you make your next phone call or contact, put that title phrase into your head, “Is this a good time for you to talk?” When you are in job search mode or business networking mode, you need to always remember that just because it is convenient for you to talk at a certain time,…
A little tool for decision making
When I am working with clients who are trying to make a decision about a job offer or between two career paths, I tell them about a little tool I use to help me figure things out. I call it my Pro / Con tool. Essentially, this is it: You take a sheet of paper…
It could have been a really bad day
We all have them, right? Those days when you wonder if you should have gotten out of bed? The days when everything you touch seems to go wrong? Those are the days that can make us grumpy for the rest of the day because things just aren’t going right. Let me tell you about yesterday…
Where did I put that resume?
Are you one of those people who are always misplacing things? I have a number of friends that keep every file on their desktop. Their objective is to easily find it. Guess what? With a desktop like the one above — and I have seen much worse, you will not easily find anything. Windows or…
Ready for that phone interview? Got the right tools?
How critical is call clarity to you? We laugh at the Verizon commercial with the “Can you hear me now?” But with cell phones replacing landlines at a rapid pace, you really need to know that your calls are clear. What if you are in the middle of the now very common first interview by…
