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Posts Tagged ‘Career Management’

How to ensure a targeted resume focuses on your market!

By Julie Walraven
How to ensure a targeted resume focuses on your market!

The concept of a targeted resume is easily misunderstood. Calls begin like this: “I’d like you to write a resume for me.” “Ok, what industry are you in and what positions are you targeting?” “Oh, I just need a resume. Can’t you just write something generic?” Why a generic and general resume is useless No, I can’t.…

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Are you targeting an outdated or overcrowded career path?

By Julie Walraven
Are you targeting an outdated or overcrowded career path?

Changing your career path or making a career move is a lot like the game of chess. The questions I get asked regularly is where do I find a job in my field? and next, should I go back to school and what to study? The Complexity of Changing your Career Path To answer this…

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LinkedIn or LinkedOut: Optimizing your LinkedIn experience

By Julie Walraven
LinkedIn Experience

How to make your LinkedIn experience beneficial How do you create or write your LinkedIn profile?  Are you struggling with how to build an effective profile? Don’t write your LinkedIn profile with just a listing of jobs or schooling without any details. Much like a resume, LinkedIn profiles need to be well written and complete…

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Is your resume remarkable so you are MARKETABLE?

By Julie Walraven
Is your resume remarkable so you can be marketable?

How to make a resume remarkable? Writing resumes and job search is very different today than 30 or 20 or 10 or even 5 years ago. Tough market, changing technology, and the Great Recession all impacted resume writing and career marketing. Make your resume remarkable so that you are marketable Make your resume remarkable, chock…

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Start with Balance in your life

By Julie Walraven
Start with Balance in your life

People who know me will find this to be a hilarious topic. Balance is one of the things I hear everyone talking about today. Are you struggling to find balance? I couldn’t help but hear Jim Connolly speaking to me when I read his post, Have you been working this week? Jim also mentions Danny…

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9 doable action steps to plan for the unexpected

By Julie Walraven
9 doable action steps to plan for the unexpected

Why should you plan for the unexpected? 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”?…

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If your job search isn't working, is it time to discover the secret to success?

By Julie Walraven

What is the secret to job search success? Why is it easier for some people and harder for others? Sometimes you just can’t get traction even when everyone else seems to be winning new jobs. The magic formula or secret to job search success I would like to tell you there is a magic formula…

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How to stop others from defining your future

By Julie Walraven

Are you defining your future? Or are you letting everyone else define your future? Often people put their future in the hands of their employer or the economy and wake up feeling resentful when it doesn’t work out. Start defining your future by being proactive If you assume your current job or employer holds your…

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Career Planning: How to avoid huge regrets in the future

By Julie Walraven

Did you know that most people never do any career planning? For them, the future just happens and you have no control over it. Unfortunately, when you go through life without any career strategy or career planning, you end up wondering at the age of 53 or 61, what happened to the rest of your…

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Are you driving your career or is it driving you?

By Julie Walraven

It is easy to get complacent. It is easy to assume that everything will stay the same but it rarely does. You may think that you are in charge of your career or at least you may have started out that way. As life rolls on, many people find that they no longer feel in…

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