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Are You a Bird of Prey?

I had a great opportunity yesterday to be present at the release into the wild of a rehabilitated red-tailed hawk. The bird had been hit by a car several weeks previously and had had to have surgery to pin its wing back together. After several weeks in hawk ICU the bird was well, recuperated, and ready to go back to the ...

Who Is Your Representative?

Have you ever been in the doctor's waiting room toward lunchtime or at the end of the day when the pharmaceutical representatives start coming in with their PDAs and pull-cases? I'm sure you have. If you have paid attention, you'll notice all these representatives (salesmen) are physically attractive, expensively dressed, ...

The Value of Writing Clearly

Language is used for many types of communications. Poetry is painting with words. Prose is the passing of a story. Narrative is the telling of a story from a particular point of view. Journalism is informing of current events. Instructional writing is telling how to do something. Resume writing falls into the category ...

Time and Money

Before we start to review and critique a resume, we always ask the job seeker how many resumes they have sent out and how many interviews they have received. I am always amazed when I see answers to the effect I've sent out over two hundred over the past three months and I've only received three calls. Those calls were ...

Sticking with It

I was reading an article today about Michael Jackson and his financial woes. It seems that the animals in his menagerie at Never Land are being repossessed or at least relocated to new, adoptive owners who can afford to take care of them. The article also mentioned that the employees at Jackson's ranch/kiddy trap have not ...

Ruts in Writing

The brakes on my car need to be replaced. They are starting to screech and set my teeth on edge. It's not surprising I need new brakes since I have almost 100,000 miles on my little car. They've lasted a long time and done their job but they are at the end of their lifespan and it's time for a fresh set. What's more, they ...

Religion on the Resume

There was an interesting article recently in Fortune Small Business about Christian business owners that run their organizations according to Christian principles. While the article was quite interesting, the side bar section on the legalities of mixing business and religion was quite educational on the do's and don'ts ...

It's Not Persona

About one in every five resumes that are submitted to us for review includes information that should automatically kill it's viability with employers. That information is Personal Data such as marital status, children, religious affiliation, age or date of birth, health details, ethnicity, or even sexual orientation. Many ...

Five Ways to Bomb Your Interview

Forget your appearance. There was an anecdote back several years ago about a major computer company that would automatically not hire anyone who came to the interview in a suit and tie. People seemed to take that to heart to mean ALL companies thought that way and started just showing up to interviews in whatever was handy ...

Employers Hire Experience

I don't know why I'm not getting interviews, said Don, I know I can do the job. I just need a chance to prove it. Don was operating under the mistaken idea that employers hire new employees for their potential. He had been a senior project manager for five years and was ready to take the next step to Director of IT. He ...

Campaign Promises

I was watching a news show this morning while eating breakfast and the hosts were debating the candidacy of upcoming presidential hopefuls. They were talking about shifting positions and how the closer to election time, the more the positions of the candidates seem to change to fit the demands of the polls. I was thinking ...

Attention to Detail? Yeah, Right

How many resumes include the phrase Detail-oriented? These days, I'd say most of them include this phrase somewhere in the summary or body of text. Detail-oriented means the person pays attention to the little things, checks for accuracy, etc. It is a trait that is valuable in a job candidate who works with numbers, formulae, ...

Are You In Love With Your Job?

Tomorrow is that big-stressor holiday - Valentines Day - where hopes flourish and worries abound. Did you get the right present for your honey? Does the present send the right message? Should you go with the funny card or the mushy one? Decisions, decisions, decisions. One decision you should be comfortable with is your ...

When to Say No Thanks

I recently talked with a gentleman who said he had sent out fifty or so resumes, had three interviews, and one offer. The offer came after three or four interviews, one of which involved a panel of the board members. He turned down the offer, though, because it was a family-owned company and he felt he the market was limited. ...

What's in a Name?

This is the busiest time of year for us. Many people are changing jobs or looking for new opportunities as part of making 2006 a great year. That means lots of resume reviews and critiques for us and a great many resumes sent to us as part of our resume development process. Managing these resume files can be a challenge ...

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