A few weeks ago, I had a coffee catch-up meeting with a long-time client. He was downsized last fall for the first time in his career and I invited him to coffee to find out how his search was going. As the barista made our lattes, he said he had taken his MBA off his ...
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Social Media Job Search: Jonathan Krass
Teaching job seekers and career changers to use social media as one strategy in their job search is a component of my Design Resume career packages. In both Career Thought Leaders Conference and Career Management Alliance Conference this year, we were taught new strategies and encouraged to bring our clients into ...
Private or Public: Quandary for job seekers & business owners
Private or public? Social media created all kinds of new questions. Clients regularly wonder if they should be enter the world of social media or if they are already there, they wonder if they are going to be ...
Keep on when life gets tough
In 1992, we knew a home office was part of the plan when we bought this house. I met with clients upstairs while my husband built the office downstairs in the room off the driveway. Then I moved down to a convenient and well-equipped office ...
Moving from Online to Real Life
Sunday was the beginning of my journey in Baltimore for Career Thought Leaders Conference. Lest anyone doubt that online friendships can't convert to real life encounters, Sunday's reception and the warm hugs was proof to me that you can ...
Value of Social Media? You Tell Me
I've talked about how social media has worked for me in past posts. I am passionate about social media and I know that makes it seem like I have a bias. But I have used all forms of marketing ...
Hammocks? Ingenuity and Determination Create a Unique Business Strategy
Wausau Whitewater introduced me to many people who I would never have met otherwise. One of those people is Shawn Feddema from the Hammock Shop in Langlade, Wisconsin. I met Shawn on the Wausau Whitewater course in 2000-something. He donated some hammocks ...
Confessing to Twitter (well TweetDeck) Withdrawal
Creature of habit that I am, I wake up and head to the computer. This morning, Twitter locked me out. Checking my e-mail, I found instruction to change my password, which I did, not once but twice since TweetDeck didn't want to let me ...