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 ...
Category Archives: Design Resumes
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 ...
9 doable action steps to plan for the unexpected
When you are in the middle of a job search, it is hard to read advice about what you should have done differently. But since self-employment often parallels the way a job seeker feels, I understand the ...
Is your resume remarkable so you are MARKETABLE?
Conversations I am having with clients and Twitter contacts alike are all about how different writing resumes and job search is today than 30 or 20 or 10 or even 5 years ago. Tough market, changing technology, and the Great Recession have all impacted resume writing and career marketing. Still, for many, it is hard to ...
What are your Gifts?
I was thinking about gifts today while was preparing a salad for a funeral at church. Helping with food for funerals isn't something I do often, though I do love to cook and live 187 steps from my church. I answered a request for help from ...
When you feel you can’t
At one point, the tagline on my business cards and advertisements was: Success begins with a single step, I believe in YOU! I still totally believe that it does! Saying I Can't is easy, taking the first step is harder. I do believe in my clients and in the job seekers I interact with daily on Twitter, Facebook, ...
Raise your hand if everything is perfect
Raise your hand if everything runs smoothly for you all the time. Is your hand up? No, why not? Guess what? Neither is mine or any reader that is being honest right now. When your world is not running ...
AN Extra from Kimba Green – a Job Mob Contest Post
I told Kimba Green and some other job seekers about Jacob Share's contest on Job Mob. I encouraged her to write a post for the competition. Now you need to go read her post, it might make you cry. It made me have even ...