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Identify your strengths for your job target

By Julie Walraven
Identify your strengths

One of the critical jobs as a job seeker is to identify your strengths for the role you target. My role as your resume writer is to help you find those stories that support your strengths for this specific job. Craft your stories to help you land the role of your dreams. How do you…

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Why Compelling Personal Branding Can Lead to your Dream Job

By Julie Walraven
Why Compelling Personal Branding Can Lead to your Dream Job

Why would we be talking about personal branding in your job search? Isn’t personal branding just for famous people or maybe entrepreneurs? Identify your Personal Branding Target Your job search must be targeted. You need to know where you want to go. “I want to work in finance” is way too broad. From that statement,…

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How to Gain Job Search Momentum in Tough Times

By Julie Walraven
Job Search Momentum

The challenges of 2020 never fail to amaze and sometimes horrify me. Tough times do not describe 2020 or the start of 2021 Between the pandemic and all the ramifications to work and our lifestyle to the months-long election process and the natural disasters of hurricanes, fires, and tornadoes, it impacted everyone and every facet…

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Don’t ever think your next job will be your forever job!

By Julie Walraven
Don't think your next job is your forever job

If COVID taught us nothing else, it is that the concept of forever job doesn’t work. Recognize you alone must be captain of your destiny or as Jason Alba once shared, you must be CEO of you! (This is one of the reasons Jason created his Six-Week Daily Audio Job Search Program, now included in…

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Don’t call the month IN the month!

By Julie Walraven
Don't call the month in the month

When I relaunched my Design Resumes business at the end of 2009, I determined if I was to be successful in propelling my side hustle business to the next level, I needed expert help. I spent the prior two or three years learning about this magical new marketing concept called social media and the related…

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3 ideas to help get a better response to job postings

By Julie Walraven
3 ideas to help get a better response to job postings

Anything is a better response than nothing, right? Too often job seekers tell me they hear nothing when they apply for jobs. Intrinsically, this shows me there is a problem. First clue? The words: Apply for jobs. You may have heard my rant about online applications before so if you have, be patient. Online job…

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When your strategies get sloppy

By Julie Walraven
When your strategies get sloppy

If you are honest, I bet you can think of times when your strategies get sloppy. All of us suffer from inconsistency sometimes and I think the modern era of so many conveniences has actually made us more inconsistent. We use tools inconsistently. For example, I use Twitter but then I pop in and out.…

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Don’t treat LinkedIn as a job board

By Julie Walraven
Don't treat LinkedIn as a job board

If you only treat LinkedIn as a job board, you miss the boat. Periodically, I get someone who is not on LinkedIn and they will say something like: I actually don’t have a LinkedIn yet. I never set one up because I did not believe it was necessary. Up to now, it has been easy…

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How to expand your network one person at a time

By Julie Walraven
How to expand your network one person at a time

When your network is too small or non-existent, finding a new job is nearly impossible. However, in the age of social media – which is less than 20 years old, you can rapidly build and nurture a network. Expand your network one person at a time I am a believer in building networks very personally.…

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How do you show industry expertise to hiring managers?

By Julie Walraven
How do you show industry expertise to hiring managers?

You may not think of job search as marketing, but it is. Many job seekers struggle with how to show industry expertise and increase the chance of being hired. In reality, this is the same struggle marketers have with promoting services or products. How do you get the market to see the value in the product?…

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