Some people let the things that happen to them destroy them. They lose a job a relationship ends a family member dies they or a family member has mental illness they suffer financial loss or challenges they or someone they love has a terminal illness a family member or close friend is arrested their children…
I was coaching a client last night after an in-house interview she had for a new position within her company. The role she has right now is very people-centric but the new one would require much more networking. This young lady has already done awesome things. She helped her family launch a non-profit focused on…
A new reader of this site shared a new tool, the CV Word Checker in his comments on the post, “You’re lost and you want to be found on LinkedIn” to check the quality of LinkedIn and CV (or resume) writing standards. Your career marketing documents do need to pass the test of good writing…
Anyone else feel like the saying, “Older but wiser” is really true for you? I find that the older I get the more reflective I am on decisions I made in the past. Now I look at things I held back doing which would have benefited me and think, “Why didn’t I do this before?”…
Just when you think resume writers have helped the world understand that the one page resume is a myth, someone wakes it up again! Yesterday Ari Herzog sent me a link and asked if this one page resume advice was contrary to my thinking. The link he sent was this one by Alison Doyle. I…
As I mentioned in my last post, one of my most recent clients at Design Resumes was a Director of Human Resources, we’ll call her Mary. Mary was delightful to work with but in addition to being a great client, she let me verify and clarify my impressions about human resources practices. With 15 years…
One of the benefits of being a resume writer is that I work with a wide range of people. Among the people I am currently working with is a Director of Human Resources. She has been willingly helping me double-check human resources practices and job search perspective from an HR viewpoint. We were talking about…
If you are active on social media, you notice career professionals talking to each other all the time on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and even LinkedIn. Funny thing about that, in a global market place, we are all competitors for the most part. Shouldn’t we be cut throat and stay as far away from each other…
Saw the headline question in my search results. The answer is “Yes…if.” You can use a quote in your cover letter if you tie it to your accomplishments and value. Almost always when I use a quote in either a resume or cover letter, it comes from an employee evaluation, reference letter, or perhaps a…
Burned bridges cause more havoc for job seekers than almost anything else. A bad resume slows down your job search but there are people who do get jobs despite their resumes. Risky, but it can happen. However, the individual who decides to vent their frustration and blows up at management when departing or talks trash…
