6 Unconventional Ways To Start Your Cover Letter
After weeks of searching and networking, you’ve done it. You’ve found the perfect job for which to apply.
Of course, the first thing you want to do is impress the employer. In fact, you want to make such a great first impression they can’t turn you down. So what do you do? You wow them …
Defeating Procrastination for Achieving Excellent Results
Have you ever been ultra excited about tackling a brand new project for business growth, but once it was time to get started, panic hit? The question usually becomes, “How and where to begin?” All of a sudden the excitement converts into uncertainty and sometimes fear. In turn, the dilemma is met with procrastination.
Procrastination …
Job Search: What Changed?
People who haven’t been looking for jobs for a while are in for a real shock. The rules of the game have changed significantly. To be effective at finding a job, one needs to involve everybody one knows. Finding a job while being low-key and discreet like in the past will take forever! Newspaper ads …
3 Ways to Fill Employment Gaps
If you have been unemployed for more than a few months, this may raise a red flag with potential employers. If you are laid off or need to quit a job unexpectedly, these create gaps in your work history. You need to learn how to cover these gaps so you don’t lose your reliability and …
4 Thoughtful Ways to Recognize Your Mentor
Take a moment to think about where you are today and how you arrived at your current job. Were there any special people who helped you accomplish your career goals?
An important element of building a strong personal brand is thanking the people who helped you achieve your dreams. Mentors and colleagues play a huge …
Personal Branding Weekly – Servant or Salesperson?
To this day, the term “used car salesperson” still conjures up a specific persona that many feel is a very negative way to describe someone. The generalizations around this title are “pushy, fast talking, aggressive, high pressure, deceptive, rude, pesky, annoying” (and these descriptions came up quickly on the first page of a Google search …
What’s Irritating About Text Messages?
The last three weeks I’ve reported on what my polling of people resulted in their dislikes about video conferencing, and emailing. Today’s post is about what is irritating regarding text messages.
When people:
Text back-and-forth when a simple conversation in person or on the phone would be more efficient Utilize too many abbreviations or they…What Does Your Resume Say About Your Age
The format and contents of your resume says a lot about your age. Age discrimination is a fact of life in today’s job market. This goes both ways for the young and the old. I want to discuss the signs that you are over 50 years of age and, hopefully, get you past the initial …
A Major Obstacle to Growing as a Leader
Due to the fact that I have worked as a psychologist and family coach over the past 20 years, I have had the privilege of observing and interacting with thousands of individuals and families. Obviously, some people are more healthy and functional than others.
And it is clear that we all have problems, so the …
Stop Striving for Perfection!
In Debora Spar’s book, Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection, the Barnard college President writes that striving for perfection is a futile goal and it will only lead to frustration and unhappiness. Debora Spar never thought of herself as a feminist. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed the gender …