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10 Tips to Manage Your Career instead of Just Doing Your Job

It’s no surprise that people who are in career transition focus a lot of their time and energy on updating their resume, networking, brushing-up their interviewing skills, compiling accomplishment stories, etc. They know they need to be prepared; to “be at the top of their game” if they hope to land another good position. Reality. [...read more]

You’re Invited: Special Career Seminar – Accomplishment Stories

Accomplishment Stories: Developing Your Most Powerful Tool to Get the Job Offer Remember a time when you heard a friend or colleague tell a memorable story?  You can probably still recall some of the details about that story long after it was shared. Good storytelling creates a vivid picture and a positive response in the [...read more]

5 Tips to “Spring Clean” Your Resume – Part 2 of 2

3. BE ACTIVE. In your Resume, use strong action verbs at the beginning of every sentence. Words such as “lead, launched, directed, built, managed and generated” have a lot more impact than a passive phrases such as “responsible for” or “handled.” 4. BE SELECTIVE. Focus on information that is truly relevant to your career goal and [...read more]

You’re Invited – Seminar: Active interviewing: Win the Interview and Get the Offer!

Join us to learn about Active Interviewing, winning interviews, and landing jobs. Good candidates like you often lose jobs they should be landing due to poor interview performance and bad interviewers. Many candidates try to prepare for interviews, but their preparation is inadequate or they are interviewed by employers who make bad hiring decisions. Even [...read more]

You’re Invited: Seminar – Networking – The Core of Your Career

You’ll look at your friends, family members, even your dry cleaner in a whole new light after this powerful seminar! One of the keys to managing your career effectively is to build and maintain a strong and varied network. Every job seeker – and even those who are currently employed – should carve time out [...read more]