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. […]
The Best Resume Advice
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 […]
Talk Smart about Your Skills
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 […]
How do YOU get things done?
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? […]
A Fresh Approach to Interview Stories
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 […]
Do this before your next interview
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 […]
Your Job Satisfaction Criteria
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 […]
Make a date with hard work, and procrastination
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 […]
If you’re afraid to brag, read this!
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 […]
Brilliant Writing Advice
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 […]