Alright, so ‘career experts’ are continually repackaging and reframing the rules of resume writing and job search. For fun, let’s call this R-squared. My resume writing business focuses heavily on serving the senior manager and executive client. Except for the multiplicity of vehicles [MS Word, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, SlideShare (hat tip to @ErinKennedyCPRW for her recent […]
Taking Palermo
By Rob Poindexter During WW II, General George S. Patton rolled into Palermo, Italy. The people crowded the streets and hung out of nearby apartment windows, waving American flags, cheering and throwing flowers at the American soldiers who marched behind Patton’s motorcade. A local band played, “The Yanks are Coming” over and over again. These […]
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 responded, please […]
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 responded, please […]
Equipped to Climb the Ladder
By Rob Poindexter, Writer and Sailor “Wow,” he thought to himself. The large indoor pool area looked immense as he stood there alone at the foot of the high dive. It soared some 25 feet in the air above the glassy pool’s surface, over 5 times higher then his own 8-year-old frame. Many times he […]
Your Resume Is Not a Tweet
I read it, and I get it, and I buy-in to the 20-second ‘resume scan’ rule. Yet, I don’t FULLY buy in. What I mean is, I don’t accept the implication by some that your resume only gets a 10-, 20-, 30-second sweeping glance by the hiring manager, recruiter, HR. .. AND THAT’S IT (the end of the road […]
Sleeping Beauty
By Robert Poindexter, Sailor and Writer For six long months she lay at rest in her slip. Six long months of cold days, and even colder nights, her lines filled with pink fluid, running through her like the medication from an IV filling the veins of a coma patient. But soon she will be awakened […]
Restoring Your Joy in Job Search
Miriam Salpeter (@Keppie_Careers) and I are delighted to co-coordinate the February Career Collective, a community of career advisors and resume writers blogging together on behalf of job seekers. This month’s articles address how to overcome discouragement in job search. Please follow our hashtag, #careercollective, on Twitter. Responses from other contributors are linked at the end […]
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 recent travel […]
Is your resume anemic?
Does the following describe your resume’s plight? 1. Anemic, weakened by lack of attention as it sits idly in your virtual computer drawer, untended and under-fed as your career purrs along. 2. Or perhaps, it was resuscitated by artificial means as a result of the panic you felt when you were suddenly laid off. 3. […]
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