Over my decade of providing career assistance, I have come across some miserable resumes. Many of them wrought with spelling errors, blatant proofreading oversights, and formatting faux pas. A key element of today’s resume is to include accomplishment statements and to be concise, and the resumes I’m referring to, do not contain these critical pieces [...]
When it comes to hiring practices technology and trends are ever evolving, so it’s important for me as a career-professional to stay up-to-date with what the hiring managers and recruiters are looking for when it comes to candidates. Each year the Resume Writer’s Council of Arizona (RWCA) hosts an HR Forum and we invite diverse [...]
As a career professional, I am always on the phone with clients for consultations, information gathering sessions, and follow-ups. To this day, it amazes me how few people actually know how to behave themselves on the phone. While things are slowly but surely picking up in terms of available jobs, employers are still pickier than [...]
Over the long weekend I received some sad news that my kids’ school administrator was laid off. I was personally affected because I know the impact she had with my kids and many others on the campus. When I asked if she knew this was a possibility, the answer was NO. She felt like her [...]
I’m sure many of you have either quit, formally resigned, or have been downsized from a job at some point in your life. But I wonder, how many of you took the time to grab some career-critical information before you left? I know personally that when your are being laid off, (1) you are not [...]
It’s that time of year, when your boss is starting to ask about how you’ve performed this year. It’s up to you to remind them what you’ve done for them lately! Yes, big shocker, bosses have short memories. It doesn’t matter if you’ve had perfect attendance, significant contributions, or saved millions for your firm…they commonly [...]
What are career goals anyway? I believe at some point in our lives, God reveals the fullness of his purpose for us (how He will use us to advance His kingdom), and to some this means entrepreneurship, while to others it is a call for a particular career goal. Think of it like this, when [...]
So as you probably know by now, I attended the National Resume Writer’s Association (NRWA) conference in Charleston, SC. It was an amazing collaboration of careers professionals all over the nation. I got a chance to meet some of my personal career heroes. What an awesome demonstration of networking at its finest! Like I always [...]
Something else that I’ve learned over my years of working with serious job tranisitoners, who invest in themselves and hire a professional resume developer to work with them…is that in order to produce the best possible resume, there are some things you (the job seeker) must do or bring to the table. Before your meetingsend [...]
I realize that job seekers and transitioners from all walks of life have the very best intentions, but truly haven’t been educated on how resumes have changed over the years. You probably know by now that I’m all about providing practical education to all the RRS readers and this week is no different. Back in [...]