7 Ways to Get Uncomfortable Writing Your Career Portfolio By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter #1: Metaphorically Speaking: Mix Prints | Get Colorful Have you ever revamped a stuffy wardrobe? For example, did your old wardrobe boast perfectly matched colors, solids and prints so that you would not stand out, be offensive or take a risk that someone may disapprove? During...

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...

Does Your Resume Express Your Intensity? By Robert P. Poindexter When Pope Julius II decided the Sistine Chapel needed something a bit more inspirational for the ceiling than the gold stars that adorned the mostly blue ‘canvas,’ he sought out the person he felt would most passionately immerse himself in the challenge. Anyone over the...

Are You Just One of the Herd? The “LinkedIn-Is-Your-Resume” Debate Continues. By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter “My goal — and what attracted me to your website — is that you can portray the essence of who I am. It’s not just skill, but it is everything else that I bring to the table – my attitude – all of the life experience, the drive, the energy that I have. I...

Is the Resume Really Dying? (Really?) image: bocaratontribune.com By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Call the paramedics – the resume is dying! Erupting like popcorn kernels fired up by the heat of the latest and greatest social sites, tools and applications, the idea of a fast-food resume, sparked by your LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or blog...

Is Your Resume a Cliffhanger? image: lotusinstitutions.com By Robert P. Poindexter The ‘Cliffhanger.’  That gut wrenching event brought to you by evil television producers as a way to entice you to stay tuned in to whatever mindless drivel you’ve been tricked into watching in the first place. Did your new favorite...

The Perils (and Value) of Career Nicheing image: standoutblogger.com By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter “Find a niche! Get a niche. Work in a niche!” In his Nov. 22nd post called, “Over-Nicheing,“ Steve Spalding asserts, “We spend a lot of time extolling the unlimited virtues of nichedom, but we rarely think of its very...

Executive Resumes: Unique Career Vessels Recently I was honored when Susan Ireland, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Perfect Resume, and a friend on Twitter. asked me to contribute to a blog post about executive resumes. Specifically, she challenged me to answer the question: “What makes an executive resume different from...

Shining Your Resume “In the Rough” Yesterday, I was invited to participate in a Six-Figure Hotline event with Dave Opton, ExecuNet founder and author of Six-Figure Learnings. During this lively, 1-hour chat with 40 ExecuNet members, a plethora of career management related questions percolated. Our overall goal, help ease the members’ job...

Grow Your Career Networking Seeds Organically Introducing: my latest post contributing to the Career Collective, a community of careers bloggers who write monthly about a specific career topic. This month: Networking and how to ease the pain. In coordination with my colleague, Miriam Salpeter, I am pleased to roll out our latest collaboration. For...