Recently I met with a job seeker whose career passion was to be an EMT; however, she was willing to take a job as an administrative assistant or warehouse worker. Her résumé reflected this disconnect.The next day I received a call from a woman who was passionate about making a career change. She had embarked on a path that would lead her away from real estate sales to a new career as a healthcare advocate for the elderly. W...
I recently met with a gentleman (I’ll call him “Mack”), who had contacted me to have his resume written. I began our session, as I do all of them, by clarifying what he wanted the resume to do for him. “I want a resume that says to the employer ‘This is a guy I really want to meet!’” No problem, I replied, that is exactly what a good resume will do. After all, a resume is, in part, a marketing brochure intended to get the a...
Have you ever noticed that when you are looking for work, every one you know has some bit of advice to share about what you should do, who you should talk to, where you should look? Keep these two basic things in mind:1) Most people that are employed, ever were employed, or hope to be employed have not had any formal instruction on how to look for work. How would you feel the next time you board a United Airlines jet only t...