Notice I said join, not follow. This is another lesson that Jim Connolly taught me. You want people to JOIN you on Twitter not follow you. Follow sounds like you are setting yourself up as a magnet. Join suggests that you are open to conversation and relationship building on Twitter. What’s the goal of a…
In the career industry, professional resume writers and career coaches like myself often use the word, “Job Seekers.” I was thinking the other day that it really needs some definition. Some people may think that “job seekers” are always unemployed but that isn’t what I mean by the term and I would guess that many…
Everyone talks about this nebulous thing called networking. Some of us network without even thinking about it and for others, it is this bizarre concept is one they just can’t figure out. They can’t visualize and they make it way too hard. I coach all my clients that an effective job search includes networking as…
I’m all for creativity! In fact, I encourage it. I advise my clients to use creativity in figuring out their stories for the resume to move the resume from boring to power-packed. But in a job search, measure your market before you use over-the-top creative strategies. In my last post about those power-packed resumes,…
I started my day today with a call to Dawn Bugni, my friend and colleague in North Carolina. Besides being a great resume writer and job search expert, Dawn has this way of telling me things that just stick in my head and don’t leave. Whenever I get frustrated, I am likely to call Dawn,…
You all have probably heard of the “Law of Attraction.” We are naturally attracted to attractive people — not meaning necessarily movie-star quality people but the people whose personalities brighten a room, the person you naturally call when you want to chat, and the person you enjoy spending time with on a regular basis. Bad…
I woke up this morning at 4:10am thinking I would get an early start on my day. After collecting my coffee, Daytimer, and my colored pens, I turned on the computer in my office only to find I had NO Internet access. Panic set in! We grow reliant on the things that we expect to…
Famous last words – “they said I’ll get an interview.” The way people look at job search often amazes me. The Internal Candidate Let’s look at an organization with high level opportunities for management and upper management. I have a client targeting an upper management position. As an internal candidate, she is essentially working in…
What if in the middle of an interview you feel like you are in the wrong place? Your mojo is gone and you just can’t seem to get up any enthusiasm for the rest of the interview. When is it right to follow those feelings and say, “NO, I don’t want the job? Economic History…
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,…