My Facebook and Twitter friends greeted me with birthday wishes starting yesterday and continuing today. What a wonderful feeling to have a global community of friends to help me remember another milestone! Halfway through the year When I was thinking about the date that marks my 54 years on this earth… July 1, I realized…
Category Archives: Careers
When change happens, what do you do?
My German Shepherd, Teddy, has had long time love of his orange deflated basketball. He has hauled it all over the house and knows who is likely to play with him. He loves to have people kick the ball to him. One of my sons’ friends even developed the habit of coming over to play…
Are you Deadline-Driven?
Think in resume-speak Perhaps after 20+ years in the resume writing and career industry, I have come to think in resume-speak more often than not. I make my to-do lists using action verbs: create, write, prepare, or review. I haven’t found ways to weave ignite, rejuvenate, revitalize, spearhead, or champion into my to-do list. I…
Stop Stumbling through your Job Search
As I work with job seekers, I find that some of them are still stuck on the myths of job search taught in school by educators who didn’t expand their research beyond tired old business or English manuals. Fortunately, my clients know that all they have to do is ask me and I will find…
Dumbing Down Your Resume
A few weeks ago, I had a coffee catch-up meeting with a long-time client. He was downsized last fall for the first time in his career and I invited him to coffee to find out how his search was going. As the barista made our lattes, he said he had taken his MBA off his…
Don’t sabotage yourself
Sometimes we make decisions for what seems to be well-thought out reasons but we failed to factor in everything. In the end, our good reasons may really be very bad ones. As my regular readers know, I spent a good part of my career as a career professional diverting and diluting my energy from the…
Do your fears get in the way of your dreams?
Jason Alba, from JibberJobber, has a tendency to make me think. His thought-provoking blog posts are what got me started reading blogs years ago. I’ve also always be introspective and many of his topics make me think about my own choices. Jason’s recent post “Paul Buchheit on Wealth, Jobs, and Dreams” made me think again….
Not a Magician!
My potential clients differ vastly in needs and desires. Sometimes prospective clients know exactly what they are looking for and realize that they are at a point in their life where they need my help. I want to invest in myself! Sometimes I will hear: “using your services is my way to invest in me.”…
Social Media Job Search: Jonathan Krass
Teaching job seekers and career changers to use social media as one strategy in their job search is a component of my Design Resume career packages. In both Career Thought Leaders Conference and Career Management Alliance Conference this year, we were taught new strategies and encouraged to bring our clients into the full use of…
Nuggets of Gold
Earlier this year, I wrote an article for Examiner.com entitled Panning for Gold. The opening point was: Professional resume writers are like gold miners. They sift through information from their clients looking for the nuggets of gold hidden but that will make the client jump out. I was thinking about recent clients I have worked…
