When you are desperate and needing a job or a new client, it is easy to sound desperate and you might not even know you are doing it. Instead of attracting people who can help you, you are more likely to be repelling those same people. How job seekers market themselves wrongly 1.) → Your…
When I wrote the post, “How hiring a dog trainer (expert) is like hiring a career pro,” my goal was to point out the similarities in hiring an expert to help you with dog training and hiring an expert in job search. Comments from Carly and Nolan indicated that I hit a nerve because as…
Yikes! You just went through an extensive time of hunting for the right job and it isn’t. You want to bail, right now, you don’t want to stay and stick it out. In a great economy, you have more options but even then moving and switching jobs has to be done with utmost care and…
One of the common questions from clients when we start talking about LinkedIn is, “My employer doesn’t like us on LinkedIn” or “what if my employer finds out?” How big is LinkedIn? Those are two different questions but both point to the same symptom.Take note of this information from the about section on LinkedIn: As…
Most of the time, we don’t realize how many things that we just trust that are invisible to our eyes. For example, with our new German Shepherd, Buddy, we decided to invest in an invisible fence. Buddy turns one on April 16 and with Teddy, our first German Shepherd, it took until he was about…
It’s springtime here in Wisconsin and all around you can see changes. My own life has been changing lately too. Up until about a month ago, my oldest son was living with us. Tim had left when he was younger and then returned again in late 2008. He’s 26 now but for him and many…
When individuals create or update their LinkedIn profile themselves, they often miss one of the most valuable parts of LinkedIn. By default, LinkedIn will make your most recent job title your headline and even put in the company name. Why your job title should not be your LinkedIn Headline You’re probably thinking, I don’t get…
I spent the morning at the Wausau Region Chamber’s Economic Outlook Summit listening to Clare Zempel, a noted economist share his view of the economy and teach those of us who are not economically-focused what indicators have an impact on the likelihood of a return to a recession. One of the audience members question was…
I get the LinkedIn Updates in my e-mail and check out the changes of my connections. My clients are often connected to me and sometimes it is the way I find out about their new positions if they didn’t send me an e-mail. Savvy career management-focused clients will make sure that their LinkedIn profile gets…
Anyone else feel like the saying, “Older but wiser” is really true for you? I find that the older I get the more reflective I am on decisions I made in the past. Now I look at things I held back doing which would have benefited me and think, “Why didn’t I do this before?”…
