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One Size Does Not Fit All

As we approach the New Year, you might be considering a career change or a career direction change. The change may be within your industry or it may be a career change that is completely unrelated to your current job. If you are considering making a change part of your 2006 plans, you should consider your resume now and ...

A New Year Cometh

Ask any career professional and he/she will tell you that January is one of the busiest months of the year for them. With the beginning of a new year, people start looking at making new beginnings or long-overdue changes in their lives whether it is losing weight, stopping smoking, or changing jobs. If they decide to change ...

I Don't Need a Resume

I was chatting with an accountant recently at a holiday party and when he asked the required conversation-starter-question What do you do? I, of course, answered that I own a resume writing firm. Well, thankfully, that's something I don't need anymore, he hastily replied. It seems this hard-charging young man had just ...

Hard Lessons Learned II

I saw someone get fired yesterday. Okay, it was a fast food worker, not a high level exec, but it was still and employee who got terminated by the supervisor. I was having a fast meal prior to an event and as I was awaiting my food, I was observing the supervisor running her crew. The crew was made up of teenagers who ...

Hard Lessons Learned

Global Considerations

We receive many requests for resume reviews from individuals who are outside the United States who are conducting job searches. Most are interested in working either in their own countries or the US. With the global nature of sites such as Monster.com or CareerBuilder, job seekers anywhere in the world are able to apply ...

2006 May Be Too Late

As we move into the full-blown holiday season with all the events, parties, chores, and traditions that go along with it, many people who are considering changing jobs feel it is better to wait until after the first of the year to begin their job search. Many people make a new year resolution of finding a more satisfying ...

Theory of Employment Relativity

I visited a museum recently where an exhibit on the accomplishments and life of Albert Einstein was on display. There was one panel of some of his quotes, many of them displaying his obvious dry sense of humor. One of them gave me great pause, however, because it is almost totally opposite of what is the trend today. The ...

Seven Years is Not an Update

I had a dear friend and former client contact me today to get an update to his resume. He is a civil engineer and I wrote his original resume when he was still in college and going for an internship. Seven years ago, he won the internship using the resume I developed and ended up getting a nice job offer from the employer ...

Make the Most of the Holidaze

It's that time of year again - the holidays. With the seemingly endless rounds of parties and get-togethers, it seems more like holi-daze. That infinite stream of eggnog and cheese balls can be a great opportunity for networking toward your next job. Networking is by far the most hated word in job search. I can preach ...

Laid Off? Apply Within

I was reading an article in the press today about the lack of manufacturing workers in the US. The National Association of Manufacturers conducted a survey of 800 US manufacturers and found that thirteen percent of them are experiencing a severe shortage of qualified workers, and sixty-five percent are experiencing a moderate ...

Job Market is Supply and Demand

Remember the good old days of the dot com era when job seekers could choose between three or four different job offers? The inflated bubble of the late nineties-early millennium had minimum qualifications for some candidates as having a heart beat. Those days have been relegated to the past along with other relics such ...

Data Dumpiness

There is a prevailing belief among many job seekers that a resume is simply a repository of all work experience ever obtained, no matter how old, how unrelated, or how meaningless. Just throw it all in there and call it keyword richness. Let the recruiter figure it out. It's one reason that so many self-written resumes ...

The Career Branding Hype

The newest buzzword in the career marketing industry is career branding. But what exactly is career branding? Essentially, it is a new term for something that we Americans have not found to be as trendy as it once was - a good reputation. It is hype because it is touted as something that is essential for successful career ...

Bad News for the Holidays

General Motors announced major layoffs this week, in the days running up to the holidays. Many argue this is a horrible time of year to lay off workers while others say it is better to do it now before those same workers run up large credit card bills during the holiday shopping period. Either way, it's a nasty shock to ...

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