Resumes & Personal Branding | Present Your Skills and Experience Clearly

Who would it be? Why that person? What is it you would want to glean from an hour-long interview with anyone you choose who is alive today? What would you ask them? How would you prepare? Where would you like to meet them for this interview? What I just outlined above is a standard exercise for our Crossroads Career small groups …

Have you ever felt like you were an imposter? Like the good things that people thought about you would someday be exposed as a lie? Like the accomplishments you’ve been claiming on your resume and in your interviews weren’t really the truth? I mean, they’re true…you’re not lying…but if the REST of the story were fully known, you’d have to confess that …

Does this brief exchange cause any flashbacks?  “I betcha can’t”  “I bet I can!”  “No way, I don’t think you can make it!”  “Yes I can, I know I can do it!”  “You’re stupid! No way you can jump over that mud puddle!”  “No, you’re stupid! I can easily do that!”  “I betcha can’t!”  “Oh yeah, I bet I can! Now …

Have you ever been in a conversation where you felt the person you were conversing with was playing some type of game with you? Or perhaps you’ve encountered scenarios at work where you’ve felt like your colleagues were playing some type of political posturing, and you weren’t sure exactly what the game was, but you sensed that everything was not as it …

“How many of you think you could stand to become a better listener?” said the workshop facilitator, as he raised his own hand. Every participant’s hand went up in response to join his.  That was the opening question in our culture workshops to set up a brief teaching into listening skills. For every workshop I attended or facilitated, whenever that …

“All publicity is good publicity,” as the saying goes. I’m not so certain I fully agree with the P. T. Barnum quote, but differentiating oneself in job search can help you get hired considerably faster. ‘Differentiation’, what do you mean? During the Great Recession, a Fortune 150 power generation company had a single requisition for an administrative assistant. Let me …

Anyone who has conducted a search on LinkedIn knows what it’s like to start reading results only to end up saying, “What the heck?” Conducting searches is not as easy as one would hope, but you can dramatically increase the quality of results if you utilize a few easy-to-remember methods. Remember the search I did in my article, LinkedIn – …

Who cares?  If you want a job more quickly, you should.  Think about it…if you know how recruiters search for candidates, don’t you think you could reverse engineer your resume and LinkedIn profile so when they conduct searches, there is a greater chance of finding you?  Okay, how do recruiters find candidates?  Glad you asked. Recruiters and Talent Acquisition Managers have a …

Do you occasionally run across words that bring a smile to your face? Or perhaps a puzzled quizzical look to your eye? That’s what strikes me when I see the word ‘extravaganza’! So, what exactly does ‘extravaganza’ mean?   Extravaganza is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as “a large, exciting, and expensive event or entertainment.” Vocabulary.com defines it as “an activity that is …

Let’s do a quick poll. What is your paradigm of the LinkedIn platform?  Which answer is the “correct” answer? You got it!  #4!!! And yet that is not the answer that I gave. My current paradigm is more around #2, having just moved up recently from #1. 🙂 In fact, writing a blog around this topic is definitely shifting my …