At our monthly Christian Business Leaders meeting, the conversation turned to the economy, the growing unemployment rate, and how business owner’s evaluate both their present employees as well as who they hire when they do have openings. Everyone in the room nodded in agreement when Jim, owner of a commercial and residential HVAC company said,…
I work with a wide range of job seekers. Some are totally plugged in and understand how critical networking is to the process of job search. Others seems to hang only on using the advertised listings and the job boards for openings. All their eggs in one basket! What’s wrong with that? When you are…
How often do you think about what kind of ruts you are stuck in and what being in a rut is doing to your overall perspective? This is Teddy. For any of you who are new to this blog or are just getting to know me, Teddy is part of our family and part of…
People often ask me the back story behind how Design Resumes was formed. The business and even the name of the business was a fluke in the beginning. I started writing resumes in 1983 as a response to a little ad we placed to gain some additional income. We had purchased a very basic computer…
The question of cover letters has been one that I have been asked continually since I started in the career industry. When do you use one? What are they? Do I use one at all? To clarify, I asked my colleague, Dawn Bugni from The Write Solution to join us to help list and…
Frustrated when no one seems to be returning your calls or you are getting dead silence after an interview? Michael Lunsford, a Twitter friend, sent me this idea and thought it might help some of you. He said my tweet about an old sales technique I was suggesting for decision making reminded him to think…
Conversations I am having with clients and Twitter contacts alike are all about how different writing resumes and job search is today than 30 or 20 or 10 or even 5 years ago. Tough market, changing technology, and the Great Recession have all impacted resume writing and career marketing. Still, for many, it is hard…
Skype is relatively new to me. I probably heard the word, knew it was some form of communications technology, and knew some people used it instead of long distance and used it to communicate with family or celebrate special events. But that was all I knew and even that was fuzzy. This year that…
As I work with job seekers, I find that some of them are still stuck on the myths of job search taught in school by educators who didn’t expand their research beyond tired old business or English manuals. Fortunately, my clients know that all they have to do is ask me and I will find…
One day last week, this little blue jay flew over to my window and perched for a few minutes on my screen. I’ve never seen a baby blue jay before. I believe he was in the middle of flying lessons from his parents and made a wrong turn. Since then, I have seen his brother…
