Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. ~George Iles One of my movie favorites is Bridget Jones’s Diary. If you have not seen the film, it chronicles a 30-something’s journey (Bridget, a single woman living in London, played by Renee Zellweger) as she moves through career and personal angst, one day, one […]
When the Keys Rattle, Will You Be Ready?
I’ve always found the Japanese culture somewhat interesting, so when I ran across an article recently about the way capital punishment is doled out, morbid curiosity found me reading the story. It seems in Japan, all those charged with murder are tried by jury, and 99% are found guilty. The only means they employ as […]
Resume Writing: LESS Is ‘Not’ Always MORE
I posted the following Tweet earlier this week: LESS is ‘not’ always more: provide meaningful, MEATY story content framed in a digestible, ‘newsy’ style. Following is the backstory for that assertion: When you’re a career resume strategist, the questions of resume format, resume length and other tactical preferences arise daily. Just this week, I shaped responses […]
Exploiting Your Job Search Wind
Last year, after tearing my Genoa for the fourth time, I decided it was time to bite the bullet and invest in a new crisp sail whose seams wouldn’t burst every time the wind came up above 5 knots. That new sail was an absolute joy to fly. Problem was, though, it made my old […]
Does a Fish Know When It’s Dying?
The other day while out on my sailboat, I noticed a good-sized catfish bloated and floating belly up. I think a lot when I’m sailing. Sometimes very deep thoughts, sometimes not so deep thoughts. I’m not quite sure which category this thought fits in, but I wondered aloud as I watched the floating corpse float […]
Your Job Search Judgment
Colin Powell once said to a group of graduating 2nd lieutenants, “Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment.” Making the point, of course, to remind these young officers not to be too hard on themselves when they make a mistake. Just take a lesson from the mistakes you are going to make. […]
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 search process through clarifying best practices as well as […]
Winning the Job Search Lottery
There’s an old joke about a woman who gets down on her knees one night and prays to God to let her win the lottery. A week later, she prays the same prayer, explaining that she just lost her job and could really use the help. Another week goes by, and she tells the Lord […]
Are the Lines of Your Resume a Tangled Mess?
When I say I like hot weather over cold weather, I’m not saying I want to be hot necessarily. I’m just saying that temperatures that allow me to be comfortable in a pair of shorts and flip flops appeal to me more than mucklucks and parkas. Recently, a friend of mine agreed to climb the […]
Facing the Fear in Your Career Search
Intro by Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter In what I envision at least a 2-part series on “Facing the Fear in Your Career Search,” my husband, Rob, starts us off with a riveting story on how our journey into a storm created one of our most memorable experiences this summer (perhaps ever). Likewise, in my nearly 13 years’ […]
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