Exploiting Your Job Search Wind

Last year, after tearing my Genoa for the fourth time, I decided it was time to Photo by CoolAntarctica.com bite the bullet and invest in a new crisp sail whose seams wouldn’t burst every time the wind came up above 5 knots. That new sail was an absolute joy to fly. Problem was, though, it made my old...

Winning the Job Search Lottery

There’s an old joke about a woman who gets down on her knees one night and prays to God to let her win the lottery. A week later, she prays the same prayer, explaining that she just lost her job and could really use the help. Another week goes by, and she tells the Lord that her car is about to be...

Career Strategies: Being Brilliantly Visible

Resume and social media issues abound: grabbing at cliches (e.g., “I’m a people person”), mirroring your colleagues’  content, shying away from touches of color, graphics, charts or graphs, avoiding the personal exposure you fear will occur if you sign up for social media accounts...

Positivity: Fundamental to Job Search Momentum

By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Frequently, clients reach out to me when the ache of job search has piqued, and they need professional help to stem the pain. After the initial conversational salve has been applied, the pragmatic, passionate and focused ‘work’ begins to steer a more direct route and...

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...

Upping Your Job Search Flame: Be ‘Needed, not Needy’

This summer’s Career Collective heats up with advice to help job seekers boost the flame under their job search efforts. In collaboration with my partner, Miriam Salpeter, I’m delighted to participate in this monthly blogging initiative. Please scroll to the end of this post for links to...

Your Resume: Hoist or Anchor?

Sailor Rob and 'Dam' Bill Cranking the Winch By Rob Poindexter No matter how strong or how smart we are, we rarely are able to rely on only ourselves to accomplish our goals. I was thinking about this the other day when a fellow sailor and pal of mine interrupted my morning coffee on the dock with...

Louie’s Big Adventure

By Rob Poindexter The message simply read, “Louie is missing.” It seems the landscapers who had done some work for us recently left just a big enough hole under the fence for 12 pounds of curiosity covered in dog fur to slip through. Yes, Louie was indeed, missing. Keep in mind, this is no...

Mirror 'their' needs, not your 'wants' in #jobsearch

In honor of April Fool’s Day, the Career Collective is tackling a few important and timely questions: How are you fooling yourself about your career / job search? What can you do about it? How can you avoid being tricked by common job search blunders? To see how other members of the Career Collective...

What Would Hemingway Do?

“I think body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don’t know anything about the soul.” ~ Ernest Hemingway in The Good Life, According to Hemingway. In our...