My husband and I launched a new hobby last year: sailing. If anyone reading this article knows about sailing, they know that the lifestyle is replete with challenges. Our most recent (and current) challenge has been the breakdown of our boat’s motor, critical to getting in and out of the harbor. It recently occurred to […]
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, 4.4 million people in the U.S. got […]
Disengaging from Job-Search Crisis Mode
Do you know that person? The one consistently in crisis? The one whose voice is always a pitch or two above their normal when explaining their day to day challenges? Someone who is never quite satisfied and always the victim or simply the sad sack with little hope? Though we all, as humans, share a […]
It’s a bit noisy for job searchers
Despite the desire to be coddled on a restful Sunday morning, I was revved up when I read GL Hoffman’s reference to resume writers in his Weekend Rant blog post. I won’t go into the details of my comments, only to say that I aspired to articulate the difference between a career historian and resume […]
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 blog, Seth encourages individuals to shuck their […]
Storytelling Resumes Breach Walls to Interviews
Katharine Hansen’s blog posting, “Are We Now in the New Storytelling Economy” really resonates with me. As an executive resume writer, I tell client’s stories every single day! The results are indefinable at times, and incredibly profuse at others. A resume is not just about bottom-line results. It must ooze the individual’s value proposition, which […]
Deep Fried Stories
INGREDIENTS TO A MENU-TRANSFORMING RESUME Everyone who ever has held a job has had an opportunity to provide a key ingredient to an item on the company’s menu of products or services. Even at the most basic level, your contribution impacted the zest of a project’s results – its quality, its efficiency (did a single […]
I accept the challenge of my friend and career coach, Meg Montford to share why I enjoy blogging: 1. I am passionate about words … and their impact, if used thoughtfully. 2. I love to corral, and organize random thoughts I have and readings I stumble upon from others into what I hope are meaningful […]
The Branded Resume: an Essential Tool
CAREER BRANDING – WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? ~ THE BRANDED RESUME AS AN ESSENTIAL TOOL ~ TOOLS TO EQUIP YOU IN DELIVERING ROI CAREER COMMUNICATIONS Introduction: Planning Your Career Move (as important as planning your vacation?) It’s been said that most people spend more time planning their vacations than planning their careers. While most of […]
Rules of Resume Story Length: Perception or Reality?
I am acutely aware of the varying opinions on what constitutes a Branded and High-Impact executive resume. I also appreciate the recommendations by some of my colleagues, that an Exec Resume must be limited to absolute brevity at 2 pages. I’m of the belief that an executive resume can be 2 or 3 pages (some, […]
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