Today’s career management is ramped up from what was the norm only a few short years ago. Not only do current job seekers have to think about new tools but future-thinking career professionals should realize that no job is forever. You need to have many tools in your arsenal. 1. → The well-written, keyword-infused, accomplishment-focused…
Meet Beau and Titan, the visiting Newfoundland puppies who come to be socialized with Teddy, our German Shepherd. Beau and Titan belong to Lee, a friend of my sons, and his dad. Titan is Lee’s and Beau is his dad’s puppy. At 10 weeks old, they compete to get the same toys. Even when I…
Jason Alba, from JibberJobber, has a tendency to make me think. His thought-provoking blog posts are what got me started reading blogs years ago. I’ve also always be introspective and many of his topics make me think about my own choices. Jason’s recent post “Paul Buchheit on Wealth, Jobs, and Dreams” made me think again….
You will find many blog posts on “Googling” yourself but I still find people who look at me with a quizzical look as if I am speaking a foreign language. Why would you want to “Google yourself?” In today’s world, you want to know what other people who Google you will find. You want to…
I’ve been really quiet on Twitter, Facebook, and my blog for the last week or so. I’ve been blessed with many new Design Resumes projects and clients so that is part of the reason I’ve been so quiet. But the other reason is that for the first time in my life, I have an ear…
A client contacted me recently and told me she had multiple job offers even after she accepted her new position. Wow! Wonderful! The resume I wrote for her got plenty of attention and results! Then she told me the back story. She became my client in mid-January, after being laid off in December from a…
My trip to New Orleans for the CMA Strong Connections, Strong Careers (Career Management Alliance) conference was filled with multiple social media presentations. Our conference was heavily attended by civilian personnel from the various branches of the military whose skepticism of social media in general and Twitter in particular was clearly evident in the sessions…
At a gathering of a group of 20 AmeriCorps members, we talked about the state of the job search in 2010. we discussed the history of the current recession and how a job seeker may feel looking at so many obstacles. This video of the unemployment moving map depicts the progression of the recession. Watch…
2010 is a year of changes, doing things different for me. When I decided to resign from Wausau Whitewater as the Operations Manager, I had many reasons. But one was primary. My friend and the President of Wausau Whitewater at the time, Michael Schroeder, understood completely when I told him this: “With the history of…
The post, Value of Social Media? YOU Tell Me created quite a bit of dialog in the comment section. It also generated new questions about the use of social media and the time involved. My post was in my head when I posted the original Wall Street Journal link to Facebook. My friend, Michael Schroeder,…
