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Best Interview Stories

November 13, 2018 By Laura Paradise

When you’re interviewing, you want to highlight your: Skills, accomplishments, and impact.  Your stories need to be: Relevant to the job/industry you’re pursuing. They need to show Results. Transformation. Impact. […]

Filed Under: Interviewing Tagged With: confidence, exercise

The Best Resume Advice

May 7, 2018 By Laura Paradise

A resume is a tool. It is a key that should fit into a lock and open the door to an interview. When creating your resume, let go of the […]

Filed Under: Apply Smart Tagged With: communication, exercise, resumes

Talk Smart about Your Skills

January 23, 2018 By Laura Paradise

Do you know the difference between a job doing skill and a job fitting-in skill? Employers do. Be sure you do too! In a job interview, you’ve got to demonstrate […]

Filed Under: Interviewing Tagged With: clarity, culture, exercise, hard skills, search strategies, soft skills, talking about yourself

How do YOU get things done?

December 19, 2017 By Laura Paradise

How you do anything is how you do everything. Thanks to Martha Beck for this very wise quote about getting things done. The question is, how do YOU do things? […]

Filed Under: Apply Smart Tagged With: clarity, coaching, community, exercise, honesty, search strategies, understanding

A Fresh Approach to Interview Stories

November 16, 2017 By Laura Paradise

If you want to nail it when it comes to communicating your impact, it starts with telling a before and after story. Employers want to know your impact (that’s the […]

Filed Under: Interviewing Tagged With: communication, exercise, impact, preparation, storytelling

Do this before your next interview

September 7, 2017 By Laura Paradise

When you’re you interviewing, you want to make a connection and establish trust and credibility right away. That means knowing the culture, the language, and the norms of a company […]

Filed Under: Interviewing Tagged With: culture, exercise, LinkedIn, preparation, research

Your Job Satisfaction Criteria

August 3, 2017 By Laura Paradise

Deciding what you do professionally means getting clear about what gives you FULFILLMENT AND SATISFACTION, in the short-term and in the long-run. You want to be able to answer these […]

Filed Under: Career Transitions Tagged With: career change, clarity, exercise

Make a date with hard work, and procrastination

May 23, 2017 By Laura Paradise

When it comes to your schedule, do you make time for hard work? Do you schedule time for procrastion, or recess, or play? Chances are you have hard work on your to-do […]

Filed Under: Apply Smart Tagged With: balance, body, exercise, search strategies

If you’re afraid to brag, read this!

March 1, 2017 By Laura Paradise

Every step of a job search calls for bragging. Let me repeat that: every major piece of a job search – from cover letters and resumes to Linkedin profiles, interviews […]

Filed Under: Interviewing, Self-esteem Tagged With: coaching, confidence, exercise, resource, self-promotion

Brilliant Writing Advice

February 23, 2017 By Laura Paradise

In my writing mastermind group, we did a five-minute warm up. It’s a brilliant practice to support getting great writing done. Here’s what we got out of the short writing […]

Filed Under: Other Tagged With: confidence, exercise, talking about yourself

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