Optimizing your Career Fair Experience #3 Dress the Part! One of my clients was preparing for an interview. This was interview #3 but the first in-person interview. He was an IT Project Manager facing a team of 12 in the interview. He asked me to clarify dress. What do you wear in today’s business environments…
Optimizing your Career Fair Experience #2 Elevator speaking Perhaps you are familiar with an elevator speech, perhaps you have written one, perhaps you are clueless as to what one is. In any case, you need to be thinking of your elevator speech in your job search and especially at career fairs. Wikipedia defines an elevator…
2010 is a year of experimentation for me. As my regular blog visitors know, I have made some dramatic changes in my life this year. 2010 is my year to focus on my business, Design Resumes. Let’s take Twitter for example. When I joined Twitter, initially, I was amazed that people were following me, people…
When I was interviewed by Ken Bishop, the Way-Cup Show personality from 89Q, it was very first time for an interview as Julie, the career marketing communications professional and Design Resumes. In the past, I did multiple interviews for print, radio, and television but in my prior role with Wausau Whitewater. Ironically, I was also taught…
Yesterday was part experiment, part challenge, part fun… My friend, Michael Schroeder and I have had an ongoing debate about the time impact of using social media. As a musician, he used MySpace successfully but it was an intense battle of trying to keep up and keep it meaningful to his followers. He knew I…
Just for fun today, I thought I would tell you our Christmas tradition and the recipe that goes with it. When I married into the family, Christmas dinner at the Walraven’s was always Prime Rib. At first, it was always at my father-in-law and mother-in-law’s house but as time went on, it moved to our…
With the advent of using Facebook to push out blog content, many people stop by opening it only in Facebook instead of going the to original post. When I started reading blogs, I didn’t use Facebook or Twitter. I went to one blog on the recommendation of bloggers I liked and then I moved on…
One day last summer, one of my Facebook and online only friends, Tammy, asked if her friends would “friend” her neighbor who was trying out Facebook. He was 94 at the time. I did and that’s how Marcel Murrell entered my life. What I didn’t know is how much he would change my life. On…
I do it. Other people I know do it. You probably do it. We play the blame game. It’s an easy out and has complicated side effects. At points, I blame others and more often, I blame me. Neither of these are productive. A young man I know well has chosen to make this the…
When I moved my office upstairs to the family room, I moved partially because it was too cold in the office I had occupied for over 15 years. Around 2006, we started burning wood in the new living room fireplace, I knew then that I had to either find another source of heat for the…
