Resume and social media issues abound: grabbing at cliches (e.g., “I’m a people person”), mirroring your colleagues’ content, shying away from touches of color, graphics, charts or graphs, avoiding the personal exposure you fear will occur if you sign up for social media accounts such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, VisualCV, Google, ZoomInfo, Fast Company, Brazen […]
Positivity: Fundamental to Job Search Momentum
By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Frequently, clients reach out to me when the ache of job search has piqued, and they need professional help to stem the pain. After the initial conversational salve has been applied, the pragmatic, passionate and focused ‘work’ begins to steer a more direct route and spur career transition momentum. Providing a partnership […]
3 Tips to Shore Up for a Career Flood
By Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter Ankle-deep in water, we waded across the ramp to our dock. The next day, after a satiating weekend of sailing, we returned to the ramp for departure, and alas, the water had risen to our knees. Granted, we had slept the prior night ‘on the water,’ and then sailed through the day, […]
Windy Days and Resumes
By Rob Poindexter, Captain, Sea’s the Day Spring has been wrought with one storm after another. Rarely, can you look west here lately without an Armageddon like sky building into yet another rain soaked day. And it seems as though the moment one storm passes through, the next one starts to build up. As an […]
Career Learnings, Big Easy Style
New Orleans 2010, Career Management Alliance’s Annual conference event, etched in my mind memories of people, sights, sounds, smells, as well as some ‘new learnings!’ The first memory was carved when my husband dropped me off at the Kansas City International airport. I spotted Billie Sucher, my Iowan neighbor and fellow Career Strategist, and her […]
Eating Bon Bons on the Treadmill
By Rob Poindexter We’ve all done it. We see a picture of ourselves, we catch a glimpse of some imperfect part of our anatomy in the mirror, and think, “Jeez, what the hell is wrong with me?” Let’s see, 47,000 hours on the exercise bike, check. Went to bed hungry for 288 of the last […]
Resume Vs. LinkedIn: Either/Or?
This post is in response to Hannah Morgan’s (@CareerSherpa’s) comment over at my post, “Resume Is Your Career Heartbeat,” where she queries: “Can’t one’s LinkedIn profile be their resume? Why would an employer need to look anywhere else?” I don’t think Hannah and I are far apart on this resume issue! The vehicles which transport the […]
Resume: It’s Who You Are
I’m not going to lie: It’s been a rough couple of days around here for me. The weather has been absolutely horrendous, and for those of you who know me, a long stretch of inclement weather usually sets the tone for everything else in my life. Ok, weather gods, look at the calendar!! It’s the […]
What Do You Mean?
By Rob Poindexter “A ship is more then sails, a keel, a hull and a mast. Those things are what a ship is. But what a ship means is freedom,” to loosely quote Capt. Jack Sparrow of Pirates of the Caribbean fame. I’ve watched this movie somewhere around 150 times, and while it is pure fantasy, […]
Louie’s Big Adventure
By Rob Poindexter The message simply read, “Louie is missing.” It seems the landscapers who had done some work for us recently left just a big enough hole under the fence for 12 pounds of curiosity covered in dog fur to slip through. Yes, Louie was indeed, missing. Keep in mind, this is no ordinary […]