When you are desperate and needing a job or a new client, it is easy to sound desperate and you might not even know you are doing it. Instead of attracting people who can help you, you are more likely to be repelling those same people. How job seekers market themselves wrongly 1.) → Your…
When I wrote the post, “How hiring a dog trainer (expert) is like hiring a career pro,” my goal was to point out the similarities in hiring an expert to help you with dog training and hiring an expert in job search. Comments from Carly and Nolan indicated that I hit a nerve because as…
Does that headline sound like ridiculous advice? “You have never lived in a better time to be unemployed.”But think about it. We have had recessions before. We have had economic uncertainty before. We have had tough times before. But never before in the history have we had the access to technology and career professionals. Never…
Yikes! You just went through an extensive time of hunting for the right job and it isn’t. You want to bail, right now, you don’t want to stay and stick it out. In a great economy, you have more options but even then moving and switching jobs has to be done with utmost care and…
Hat tip to my friends, Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter and Rob Poindexter from CareerTrend who will always come to mind when I say the word “Sailing.” Their passion for sailing and using the analogies in the career industry has truly become their brand. But I couldn’t help use the word because for me, though not a sailor,…
Every once in awhile I write a post about career fairs. If I had any doubt that they could be effective, those doubts were blown away when my most recent intern, Emily, updated me on how she was doing with her job search. Emily will land on her feet anyway, she is a talented young…
It’s springtime here in Wisconsin and all around you can see changes. My own life has been changing lately too. Up until about a month ago, my oldest son was living with us. Tim had left when he was younger and then returned again in late 2008. He’s 26 now but for him and many…
These have been tough times. It seems like 5 years now of tough times. Economy started slipping in 2007. Some people have given up a lot. Dreams have been crushed and things have been put on hold. If you lost your job during this time, you felt the angst and uncertainty personally. If you are…
To put it very simply, when people call me as a professional resume writer, there are two kinds of calls: There are people who totally get what I do and how I can make a difference in their lives and job search or career change. There are people who think they get what I do…
Everyone is telling you to use Twitter for job search. Everyone is telling you to use LinkedIn for job search. Everyone is telling you to use Facebook for job search. But once you jump into the water, you stall. You don’t know how to move forward. You don’t know how to use Twitter in your…
