This month the collective posts to coincide with Quintessential Careers Job Action Day on November 2, 2009. Career Collective post: Once a month, a group of career professionals blog on a subject topical and timely for a job seeker. We’ll post our thoughts on our own blog and link to the post of our colleagues [...]
Archive of posts tagged Career Advice
Would you brush a hippo's teeth?
As you may already know, I ran a pet sitting service in addition to my resume writing enterprise. (October 5th I notified clients I was shutting down.) If you think working for corporate America is demanding, try caring for someone’s animals in their own home. Goodness me, the stories I could tell. I also volunteer [...]
Seven observations from my day at the job fair
Today, I’m sharing some observations and insights gained while volunteering to do resume reviews at a local mall for a job fair. To say I’m disgusted by what I saw is an understatement. And I’m not talking about the resumes. I’m used to seeing boring career autobiographies, all out career confessionals and self-centered, “this is [...]
Seth Godin: "Don't Try to Get a Job???” I couldn’t agree more!
In the last of a month-long series of guest posts (including mine) on G. L. Hoffman’s What Would Dad Say? blog, Seth Godin closes out the month with some RADICAL job search advice: “Don’t Try to Get a Job.” Run over there, check it out (GREAT READ!!), then come back and find out why this [...]
Guest Post on Careerealism
Between Daylight Saving Time and the events of this past weekend, I’ve been remiss in tooting my own horn about my contribution to an article on resume writing for Careerealism. (As I tell my rez clients. If you don’t toot your own horn, who will???) And yes gang, this is another Twitter-generated opportunity. Stop rolling [...]
Thank-you. Click.
I’ll admit it. I’ve become a Twitter addict. I’ll cover all the wonderfulness garnered from social media in another post. For today I want to share something I saw in my Twitter stream a while back: “If you get an email about a position respond to it.” Sounds like basic common sense, but believe me, [...]
Note to self …
No really, this is a note to myself. Jason Alba posted a list of job search resources today on his JibberJobber Blog. He sprinkled the list with lots of great advice about how and why to use each site. I wanted to be sure to save it. You should too. Soooooooo … today I’m doing a lazy-blogger thing and telling you go [...]
