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Jelly of the Month Club

Some families have normal Christmas traditions like attending midnight mass or going caroling on Christmas Eve. In my family, we have a tradition of sitting down on Christmas Eve as a family and watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Okay, so we are a little weird. Some watch It's a Wonderful Life - we watch Chevy ...

I'll Do It Later

We all procrastinate. It's natural to put off doing something that is unpleasant, boring, or seems unnecessary at the time. Many of you reading this have vacation at this time of year and you may be getting around to doing something that you've put off like cleaning out the basement or having the tires rotated and balanced ...

How Much Is Your Time Worth?

It's the holiday season and time has become a valuable and short commodity to most of us. My Day-Timer looks like a bus schedule with appointments, clients, holiday events, end-of-year deadlines, and other things that just HAVE to get done. I'm sure you can relate to how hectic lifestyles are at this time of year. Have ...

Smile for the Birdy - NOT!

Don't you hate your driver's license photo or your passport picture? They always make you look like a wanted felon. When you watch America's Most Wanted and they show a picture, you automatically make a judgment about the person even before you know what he/she has done to make it on the program. Pictures are like that ...

Holiday Job Searching

We've passed Turkey Day and are heading into the high velocity time of the December holidays. Traditionally, December is considered to be the slow time of the year to job search coming in just ahead of the month of June for sluggish response. That can be a good or bad thing depending on your perspective. Most people only ...

Campaign Hiring

We are now less than a week away from nation-wide general elections. If you are like me, you are sick of the ads and just want it to be over at this point. I heard yesterday that some candidate had taken the day off in preparation for the run-up to next Tuesday because she was planning on conducting two 24-hour long blitzes. ...

Absent from School

What do some of the most successful business people in the nation have in common? They did not finish college. They were too busy building empires, working their tails off, and managing growth. Have their lack of degrees hampered their careers? Hardly! It is not uncommon for senior executives today to not have a college ...

Word versus Text Formats

Most everyone is up-to-date enough about job search methods these days to understand that you need both a Word document (or a PDF format) and a text format file that follows the correct layout guides for databases. In case you aren't quite familiar with this protocol, let me review quickly. Sometimes, databases (especially ...

A Neat Trick

Have you ever been surfing around on an online job board and seen a job advertisement that just seems made for you? It asks for all the same qualifications you have, is the right job title, right salary range - everything seems perfect. The only problem is that it is a blind ad. A blind ad is a job advertisement where the ...

Job Titles Aren't Important - Or Are They?

I hear this a great deal from clients when I ask them what job position they are targeting. When they say this, they usually qualify it by adding it's the challenge or the type of work that is important. I can understand that. Most people change jobs because they are unchallenged in their current ones. Challenge is a big ...

How Long is Too Long for a Resume?

The answer to the question is It depends. (Don't you just love those definitive answers?) For years and years, the rule was that a resume had to be no longer than one page. That made sense back in the days of the typewriter and hardcopy resumes that had to be kept in storage for at least six months. The less paper the better! ...

Am I Worth What I Am Asking?

We get this question a great deal and it is almost impossible to answer with any accuracy. Salary levels have so many variables built into them that it's hard to say a VP of Marketing should be making X amount of money a year or what a Director of Finance should be earning at a certain level. So many factors figure into ...

Write with Purpose

There was a recent headline in the news that noted SAT scores were lower in 2005 than in the past several years. You can stand on all sides of the educational issue but one thing we all must admit is that something, somewhere is not working as well as it should. We can blame all sorts of factors on the decline in education ...

The Sandwich Generation

There is a generation today that is experiencing something that most other prior generations have never had to deal with. This generation is between the Baby Boomers and the Gen X'ers and generally graduated high school during the eighties or late seventies. The Sandwich Generation currently are in high gear in their careers ...

Resume Design Can Make a Difference

I saw a really unique resume today. Keep in mind that I glance at hundreds of resumes every day as part of our free critique program so when I can sit down in the evening and one sticks out in my brain, it's something to write about. Not only do I remember his resume from the hundreds I've seen today (just like a hiring ...

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