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A Million Dollar Resume

Will the resume you write for me win me a $500,000 job? That was the question I was asked today by a prospective client. I wished I could say Heck yes! but I couldn't and remain honest. Resumes don't win jobs. Resumes win interviews. People win jobs. Once the resume gets you into the interview, a whole new set of factors ...

Looking Ahead

Have you noticed all the advertisements on television in the past few months that concern retirement? It seems like everyone is pushing retirement financial management and other related services to the Baby Boomers. Maybe it's because I've passed a milestone birthday this year but these commercials have been catching my ...

Job Worry is Common

Are you worried about the stability of your job? If you are, you are not alone. An article in Advertising Age notes that 35 percent of workers are concerned about being laid off or losing their jobs, despite the economic recovery that has taken place since November, 2001. Essentially, the US workforce is fully employed ...

Internal Resumes Don't Work on the Outside

You may have been in this spot: a position has come open within your company and you wrote your resume and submitted it. You were one of the finalists for the position but didn't get the job so you decided to look around outside the company to see what the market offers. Your resume worked great for the internal position ...

Functional Resumes Just Don't Function

At some point in time, someone somewhere came up with the idea that a resume that was organized by skills was a good idea. The functional resume was born. A functional resume is organized something like this: Name Header Summary Skill Category 1 Skill Category 2 Skill Category 3 Work History Job Title, Employer, Dates Job ...

Combining Fun and Work

I had some down time today in a waiting area so I picked up a magazine to read. I wish I could quote it directly but it was some kind of outdoors magazine. It caught my eye because the main story on the cover was about fun jobs. I am always interested in fun jobs so I read the article. Essentially, the article was about ...

When Issues Become a Job Search Hurdle

Let's face it - we all have problems. At some time in our lives we are faced with major problems whether it is financial crunches, health issues, family disintegration, or other conflicts that upset our entire lives. It also never fails that when you just think things are going smoothly - WHAMMO - something else goes south ...

What's in a Word?

Do you ever think about the essence of meaning of a word? For example, look at the phrase less dissatisfied. Saying less dissatisfied is the same thing as saying more satisfied. The meaning is the same but less dissatisfied has a more negative connotation. It implies that the person was dissatisfied and still is dissatisfied ...

Try It Before You Buy It

I was reading an article today at one of the online news outlets about a new, unique program for career changers. The program allows you to work for several weeks alongside someone who is already accomplished in the career field in which you are interested. This mini apprenticeship allows you to try out the career in which ...

Truth or Consequences

I was reading an article today about how to tell if someone is lying. In the article, it noted that there are some indicators for identifying false information on a resume. Some of the indicators, I agreed with but some of them were just plain examples of bad writing (like use of personal pronouns). A resume is by nature ...

Summer Networking

It's almost time for the kids to start school again and everyone is squeezing in those last vacations or trips before Labor Day. It's hot, hot, hot everywhere and the dog days of summer are upon us. The second best time of the year for networking is almost over - summer. I say second best because the Christmas holidays ...

Ripple Effects

The Labor Department released the hiring numbers for July this week and they showed a hiring slowdown in the US economy and a five-month high of unemployment at 4.8 percent. That's the bad news. Good news is that wages are still growing steadily. As we all pull up to the gas pump these days, we wince at the sight of the ...

Resumes in Blue Leisure Suits

Joe Jobseeker shows up to an in-person interview with a recruiter for a job involving outside sales. The sales job will involve selling multi-million dollar solutions to V-level decision-makers. Salary is definitely in the six-figure range, especially with performance bonus added in. Joe has excellent qualifications. He's ...

Honey Draws More Flies than Vinegar

Job search can be stressful, especially if you find yourself having to search for a job unexpectedly as a result of a layoff or other event outside your control. Stress does not give a person a right to be rude, however, and being rude in your job search can kill opportunities. Take Jill for example. Jill had lost her ...

The Hazards of the Spam Folder

Anyone who has ever done laundry knows that there is a parallel universe that can be accessed through your washer and occasionally, socks will make it through this wormhole that the agitator creates. The same thing happens to email, only the wormhole to the other world is located somewhere in the spam folder. Spam filters ...

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