Sunday was the beginning of my journey in Baltimore for Career Thought Leaders Conference. Lest anyone doubt that online friendships can’t convert to real life encounters, Sunday’s reception and the warm hugs was proof to me that you can get to know people online and grow business and personal connections. I am so excited to…
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,…
I’ve talked about how social media has worked for me in past posts. I am passionate about social media and I know that makes it seem like I have a bias. But I have used all forms of marketing for years. I’m not a new kid on the block. My Design Resumes business is more…
You may have noticed that the face of this blog and my entire website has changed. Kim Woodbridge played a huge role in making it happen! I determined that I wanted to move the site to Headway, after seeing the blogs of people like Jim Connolly, Danny Brown, John Haydon, and hearing them explain how…
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post called How much Twitter Input can you Handle? There were a number of people who commented on that post and one of them was Christine Livingston, a new friend from the United Kingdom, who is a Coach for Work Change. When I woke up this morning, my…
E-mail… Check √ Cell Phone … Check √ LinkedIn… Check √ Twitter… Check √ Facebook… Check √ In business or in a job search, you should be easy to communicate with, to access, to leave messages and know that there will be a prompt response. How easy is always up for discussion. I’m pretty accessible….
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…
Wausau Whitewater introduced me to many people who I would never have met otherwise. One of those people is Shawn Feddema from the Hammock Shop in Langlade, Wisconsin. I met Shawn on the Wausau Whitewater course in 2000-something. He donated some hammocks to be used as prizes for one of the freestyle rodeos. He gave…
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…
