By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Maintaining an updated resume – or, transforming it — in this rapidly changing career environment is imperative at any time, and particularly now, when the buyers’ market prevails. Ensuring your value shines and each career assertion resonates with your target company’s needs and showing how you solve their pain is important to […]
Charting Your Goals: Be Sure to Adjust for Drift
Next month, Rob and I will set sail into our new lifestyle that involves a two-story house and a 90,000-acre lake in a small town north of Dallas. Our sailboat is berthed just 1.8 miles from our home, merging our sailing and writing passions. Rob, the love of my life, my best friend, a true […]
Maximize an ‘Ordinary’ Job to Bolster Your Career Value
By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter During a recent trip to North Texas, Rob and I collected several customer service stories that inspired this post. When employees get lax in their jobs, perhaps thinking certain duties seem mundane or not all that important, their performance, and ultimately, the customers they serve, are impacted, negatively. Rest assured, though simple […]
Toes in the Water
By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Feeling a bit distracted by the possibility of spring? Eager to dip your toes into the water again, while at the same time, feeling a bit anxious about your career? Today’s post, in collaboration with my Career Collective co-coordinator, Miriam Salpeter, and more than a dozen other career bloggers, focuses on ideas […]
Paint ‘Confident’ Word Stories in Your Flexible-Job Resume
By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Whether designing your career resume focused on a more conventional, 9-to-5 job or aspiring to a flexible work path, the essence of your message must be the same: Sell Your Value. As in any sales initiative, you must drill down and really ‘listen’ to what your target audience says are their pain […]
Job Seeker: Where’s the Joy?
By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter I sat staring at the computer screen, stifled. Emails crowded my view, like schools of fish, mouths open for food. Will I trigger an undulating wave by diving into this email ocean? Or, perhaps I’ll engage with MS Word and apply the needed salve to dozens of career documents. Will I get […]
Be You-Nique: Resume Writing “Rules” to Break
By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter As a member of Career Collective, and in collaboration with my friend and co-coordinator, Miriam Salpeter, I am happy to announce this month’s topic: Job-hunting “Rules” to Break / Outdated Job-Search Beliefs. Please visit other blog posts on this subject, linked at the end of this post on Wednesday. For those on Twitter, we […]
Crafting Unsinkable Career Tweets
By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter How should a job seeker craft effective, meaningful Twitter messages that resound with an appropriate, yet impactful tone? Sometimes, the Twitter stream is a smooth rivulet, offering calm conversations, inviting chatter and encouraging words. In other instances, a strongly worded and edgily toned message causes the water to roil. If you are […]
Be the Leader of “You” to Spark the Lighted Beacon
By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Do you struggle with the ‘leadership’ terminology as I sometimes do? Possibly, it is because individuals anointed as leaders sometimes are perceived by non-leaders to be ego-driven, and that can be untenable and unattractive. Or, perhaps it has more to do with the fact that most of us don’t want to consider […]
Who’s Encouraging You?
By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Encouragers – they thread themselves through the needle of our lives, stitching together our tatters when we find we are fraying. In your business, your career or your life, do you have your encourager team in place, those whom you tap into regularly or as-needed, people who will resuscitate you when you […]
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