Yesterday, I learned someone was going to lose their apartment this week. I chatted more to try to help come up with solutions. In their case, they had been struggling financially for awhile but the husband had only been out of work for one month. Many people in the last five or six years have… Continue Reading
Yesterday’s post was “You have to START to finish!” I promised to continue the theme of starting to finish. If this is a blog written by a professional resume writer, why then is my first topic about finances and not job search or resume writing or career planning? Money and finances are such a core… Continue Reading
I’ve been in a very reflective mood lately. As I have said in other posts, 2010 has been an amazing year for me. It has been filled with so many things, it is hard to focus sometimes. Job seeker success stories Lately, I have been hearing the same things from my clients, both the very… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
Did you ever give thought to how differently you feel when you — or your office — or your house is clean? I’ve been on a mission lately. Call it fall cleaning or whatever you want but I have been crawling under things, dusting and vacuuming, organizing files, sorting paperwork, and in general cleaning up. My… Continue Reading
I had another post in mind for this morning but I was over reading my brilliant friend and colleague, Christine Livingston’s blog, A Different Kind of Work, and realized that maybe we want to discuss something different. Christine’s post is titled: “How the Threat of Layoff Can Scare You Sh*tless (and what to do about… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
