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 fielded a client call from an individual who will be working with me to create her resume and strategize marketing approaches to launch her new career. As we discussed the details of working together, she repeated what she had said in our prior conversation, “You are an investment for me, I need you!” I…
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…
I had another post in mind for this morning but I was over reading my brilliant friend and colleague, Christine Livingston’s blog, A Different Kind of Work, and realized that maybe we want to discuss something different. Christine’s post is titled: “How the Threat of Layoff Can Scare You Sh*tless (and what to do about…
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…
I’m in the business of creating career marketing strategies for job seekers. This is not new to me. I have been doing this for 25+ years. How I do it has changed and the level of complexity of the job search has changed. Our global communication has changed and we know what is happening instantly…
I would guess that there are some people who just don’t know why a blogger would put a search engine on their own blog, isn’t Google good enough? Look over there on the right. See my search button? Just in case you missed it, it looks like this: This might shock you but I actually…
When you are in the middle of a job search, it is hard to read advice about what you should have done differently. But since self-employment often parallels the way a job seeker feels, I understand the struggles you may be going through. Can I have a “Do-Over”? All of us would love to have…
At one point, the tagline on my business cards and advertisements was: Success begins with a single step, I believe in YOU! I still totally believe that it does! Saying I Can’t is easy, taking the first step is harder. I do believe in my clients and in the job seekers I interact with daily…
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…
