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 the full use of…
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 in trouble. Q: “Should I be on LinkedIn? What if my employer sees me there?” My answer:…
In 1992, we knew a home office was part of the plan when we bought this house. I met with my Design Resumes 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 that unfortunately was always cold. In 2005,…
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 get to know people online and grow business and personal connections. I am so excited to…
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 for years. I’m not a new kid on the block. My Design Resumes business is more…
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 to be used as prizes for one of the freestyle rodeos. He gave…
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 change my password on it. Using Twitter just from the Twitter…
Job Stickiness #3 a series to help you keep jobs or tips to make you sticky in the next one. Recently, my colleague, Dawn Bugni wrote two posts that both touched on the computer skills that job postings often require. In her first post, Ya But, Dawn said, “I spend a good deal of time…
Job Stickiness #3 a series to help you keep jobs or tips to make you sticky in the next one. For anyone who really pays attention, there was a different blog post here this morning. But after reflection, I decided I didn’t like the post enough to keep it. I’ve never done that before, annihilated a…
Last week I met (and met with) Shawn Blackwell from Wausau To Go for the first time. We had chatted on LinkedIn and he had called previously to schedule an appointment to chat about social media, marketing, and to learn how I work as a career professional. As we talked about Facebook, he said he…
