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…
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Forging Ahead & Merry Christmas!
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…
How United Airlines exceeded my expectations
This was my year to start in a new direction. I started 2010 with renewed focus on Design Resumes. Gung ho to infuse myself with cutting-edge job search and career marketing strategies, I eagerly signed up for not 1 but 3 career conferences even though I hadn’t flown in 15 years. The first in Baltimore,…
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…
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…
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…
The Psychology of Clean
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…
Rays of Hope
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…
Hurts Stay with You
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…
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…
