Top Tips: Tip #2 – Upskilling

Please take a survey at the end of this blog so that we can better understand your experience with job transition. The Time is Now to Close the Gaps in Your Professional “Skills” Profile Maintaining a competitive career skills profile can be challenging. It’s very easy to become complacent with your self-development plan while sitting comfortably employed in a stable …

Top Tips:  Tip #1 – Don’t let your network forget!

As we enter into February, we are planning to share some of our Ministry Partner’s “Top Tips” for the unemployed or unfulfilled.  If you’re like many people who find themselves in one of those categories, you’ve probably learned there are a vast array of resources available to support you.  But, the unfortunate offset to “vast array of resources” is many …

Which way do I go? Get a Guide!

Have you ever visited a new city, state, or country and had the benefit of being led by a Guide?  I’ve enjoyed that benefit…and particularly when contrasted to my past self-exploration mistakes, the Guide not only saved me a significant amount of time, my experience with them increased my appreciation for the location I was visiting!   Getting Advice Your …

Think Strategic Partnerships in Your Job Search

A recently published article on Forbes.com highlighted advice and guidance from experienced LinkedIn career experts. One executive recruiter shared, “Always be connecting and networking 365 days a year—not solely when you are looking for a new job. Being curious about others will help you do this naturally.” And that wasn’t the only strong admonition that came from the article regarding …

Crossroads Career Chat Upgrade in 2023

Career guidance can be a valuable resource for job seekers as they navigate the often-complex process of finding a job. With the right guidance and support, job seekers can identify their strengths and interests, discover new career opportunities, and develop the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in their chosen field. At Crossroads we have a few ways to do …

Disconnected?  Get Reconnected!

Last night I enjoyed the wonderful opportunity to get reconnected with some friends I hadn’t spoken with in over 5 years. You know that kind of conversation?  Great people you’d like to stay in touch with, but it just hasn’t seemed to work out that way. But within 2 minutes, you feel like you’re reconnected as if you had spoken …

The Gifts of Crossroads Career: Family

Celebrating Family As we are in the time of year where we celebrate the birth of Jesus we often do so with family. Family is everything to us. Whether we are close to them in proximity or they are in a different part of the world they are still family. Friends and acquaintances become family. So, as we get to …

The Gifts of Crossroads Career: 5 Ways to Get Support in Your Job Search

Don’t Go It Alone. Get Help in Your Job Search. The New York Times published an article in 2019 titled How to Deal with Job Search Depression.” The writer states that “Looking for a new job but having zero luck getting hired can be, to put it lightly, incredibly demoralizing.” And this can be devastating to both the job search …

Grateful for Technology and Jobs

What role does technology play when it comes to your job search? For many people technology is used almost 100% in their job search. Job boards, LinkedIn, and even creating a resume is done on a computer or tablet. In this day and age it is (virtually :)) impossible to look for, apply or get your resume together without utilizing …

How To Write an Ineffective Resume

While the intent of a resume is to gain an interview, many of them are written in a way that doesn’t help that cause! If you’re determined to submit a resume that includes the most common problems, be sure to incorporate these…   Make the Reader Work to Understand your Role On average, a recruiter or hiring manager reviews a resume …