Job Hunter: Use Your “Lack” of Experience to Your Advantage By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Tangible, problem-solving, pain-relieving job skills and experience are advantageous in a myriad of ways when you are hunting for a new job. However, for those job seekers whose resume is light on experience, you can find comfort in knowing that sometimes the...

Recently Fired? Surround Yourself With Pushy Encouragers! image: SmilynStef (flickr) By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Recently downsized, separated or fired executives often at the precipice of retirement or at a phase in their executive career ladder where they are feeling old and worn down often struggle with building a career portfolio. They are so...

Alleviating Job Interview Pressure: 10 Tips via Flickr: xianrendujia By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Next to a root canal appointment, few things in life are as nerve inducing as the job interview. Knowing the person with whom you will be speaking has the opportunity to either keep you in the running or slam the door shut on the ‘perfect-fit’...

Choosing the Right “Part” in a Resume Partner Flickr (joiseyboyy) By Robert P. Poindexter Nautically speaking, a partner is a stout wooden frame surrounding the mast that takes the strain off of the deck timbers. Of course, most people don’t associate  that word with the sailing vernacular above. Maybe they should though. After all,...

You CAN Teach an Old Dog New Tricks! By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Hat tip to Dawn Bugni for inspiring the title to this post! Replete with change, our recent Texas transition has dogged us with new challenges. Enveloped by mesquite trees and a sprawling yard, our resort home would seem to afford our beloved Louie – a 15-year-old miniature...

A Diploma Is Not a Resume By Robert P. Poindexter Ah, college. That institute of higher learning where last year’s seniors are this year’s freshmen. Four years of all-night study groups and 20-page term papers. It is the first real taste of freedom for many an ambitious young person yearning to spread their wings and fly...

Ignite Your Job Search By Minimizing Social Media By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Many myths are actually truths, and the other way around. This applies to some of the assertions being bantered about in the job search space. If you can simply clear the clutter of myths and focus in on what is important — the key elements of a successful, proactive and...

Job Seeker Clarity (Reality Check) By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Part of my job owning a creative, service-oriented business is managing client expectations. I credit a conference presenter, Andrea Kay, for tipping me off about 10  years ago as to a best (or at least better) practice for setting expectations ‘up front’ with...

What About the Results of All This Suffering? Sea's the Day By Robert P. Poindexter A few days ago, I began the mind-numbing task of refinishing the woodwork on our sailboat. I do not like anything about this procedure. It requires you to stay bent over most of the time. And, since it is a sailboat, you are usually bending over and twisting to avoid...

The Restorative Process of Unearthing Your Value “I have invested hours and hours in the attached (resume worksheet).  I found the process everything from cathartic, to exciting, to tedious and insightful.” These were the words of a recent client, (we’ll call him ‘Ben’) in an email he wrote me, after completing an intellectually laborious...