When the Keys Rattle, Will You Be Ready?

I’ve always found the Japanese culture somewhat interesting, so when I ran photo: originalprop.com across an article recently about the way capital punishment is doled out, morbid curiosity found me reading the story. It seems in Japan, all those charged with murder are tried by jury, and 99% are found...

3 Tips to Shore Up for a Career Flood

By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Ankle-deep in water, we waded across the ramp to our dock. The next day, after a satiating weekend of sailing, we returned to the ramp for departure, and alas, the water had risen to our knees. Granted, we had slept the prior night ‘on the water,’ and then sailed...

Windy Days and Resumes

By Rob Poindexter, Captain, Sea’s the Day Spring has been wrought with one storm after another. Rarely, can you look west here lately without an Armageddon like sky building into yet another rain soaked day. And it seems as though the moment one storm passes through, the next one starts to build up. As...

Career Learnings, Big Easy Style

New Orleans 2010, Career Management Alliance’s Annual conference event, etched in my mind memories of people, sights, sounds, smells, as well as some ‘new learnings!’ The first memory was carved when my husband dropped me off at the Kansas City International airport. I spotted Billie Sucher, my Iowan...

Navigating the Mistletoe of Job Search

As co-coordinator with my colleague, Miriam Salpeter, I am pleased to participate in our third round of posts from our community of expert career advisors and resume writing professionals called the Career Collective. This month’s articles address the topic of Job Search Strategy During the...

You can thrive in, not just survive, an economic slogging!

As co-coordinator with my colleague Miriam Salpeter, I am pleased to participate in our second round of posts from our community of expert career advisors and resume writing professionals called the Career Collective. This month’s articles are in response to Quintessential Careers Job Action Day. I...

Six Tips to Hit Your Job-Target Bullseye

After a recent consultation with a job seeker, I was inspired to post the following on Twitter (via @ValueIntoWords): Often hear re: job target, “I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.” Take a stand, be somebody~focus on a bullseye. Harry Urschel, also a Twitterer via @eExecutives and...

Step Right Up: Career Blog Carnival Ride Awaits

Welcome to the Career Blog Carnival! Career Trend (Twitter handle @ValueIntoWords; aka, Jac Poindexter aka Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter) proudly hosts this recurring event originated by Ben Eubanks (@beneubanks).  With a strong response by a diverse mix of career folks: resume writers, career strategists,...

Making Yourself Heard Through the Noise: Lighting a Fire Under Your Career Message

As with most careers conferences, the value is in the golden nuggets of information mined from a series of seminars and behind-the-scenes conversations with global career experts. For example, at the recent Career Management Alliance conference in San Antonio, Texas, I learned that in the last month alone,...

Think hard before shucking your job search to “go it alone!”

Over at G.L. Hoffman’s blog, What Would Dad Say (WWDS), I was delighted to read Seth Godin’s guest post today. You know, he’s the marketing guru and author of Purple Cow and Tribes and other innovative books on transforming your business or steering substantive change. In today’s WWDS...