Earlier today I heard a commercial advertising this year as the 45th anniversary of the release of Mary Poppins. Wow. 45 years. Grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the original audience still enjoy a movie first released in 1964. Young Julie Andrews, handsome Dick Van Dyke – nostalgia … makes you feel all warm and fuzzy doesn’t [...]
Archive of entries posted on January 2009
Watch that first impression.
Frequently, the first impression a potential employer gets is your voice mail message. Do you have a long interlude of music or nonsensical gibberish known only to your peeps? Does five minutes of your dog rowling “I ruve ru” or your three-year saying something adorable, yet unintelligible to the rest of the world, precede instructions [...]
Target? Focus?? Audience??? I don’t even know what I want to do yet!
After reading my colleague’s, Jennifer Anthony, recent blog post, Targeted Resumes: How to Target Your Resume to the Job You Want, it got me thinking. As resume writers, we tell our clients, you’ve got to focus your job search. You’ve got to have a target. You’ve got to know your audience. However, with all this [...]
Does your LinkedIn Profile make you standout?
Have I got a great article to share with you! Jason Alba, job search guru and JibberJobber founder, tweeted about it on Twitter earlier today. He’s mentioned in the article, hence the tweet.
This article is packed full of such useful information, I can’t add anything other than “do what the article says.” Here’s the link to [...]
Do I really need professional help?
Some would say yes … but then I’m not talking about me. <smile> I’m talking getting professional help as you contemplate or begin a job search. When it comes to creating a compelling sales and market document, targeted toward landing interviews in a competitive job market, are you up to the task?
If some of this [...]
