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 ...
Tag Archive: accomplishment-based resumes
Does home-based business or telecommute hurt your resume?
I get questions from people whose office is in their home as we work on their resumes. When you work from home either as a home-based business or a telecommuter or perhaps as support for a spouse's business, you can start to feel like you are not as marketable as someone in a professional ...
Does the Image Matter?
In my last post, I talked about growing weeds or flowers, today I would like to stay on the gardening topic and focus your attention on the two seed packets at the left. One of my favorite places to buy plants and seeds is Red's ...
Would Your CoWorkers Miss YOU?
My friend and colleague, Dawn Bugni retweeted Mark Burginger's tweet about the clipping above and it made me look... Wouldn't you? Apparently, ...
Cultivating Networks at Career Fairs –> #1 Preparation
Optimizing your Career Fair Experience #1 Preparation On February 18 from 10am to 2pm, I will be at Wausau's newest learning environment, Rasmussen College at their Career and Networking Fair as their Career Expert. Among other ...
Don't Let Your Resume Fall in the Black Hole! Gasp!
As I review incoming resumes for my clients prior to starting a new project or run across resumes posted online, I find some cardinal rule breakers, like: "Happily married, with two beautiful children." As much as that sounds nice, you set off red flags for HR directors ...
Hey, What Is A KeyWord Anyway?
Career professionals, like myself, who have been part of the career world for years take some things for granted. We tell people to fill their resumes with key words or we do it for them. But we don't often take the time to say why.