Helping You Reach Your Job Search and Career Goals
My friend and fellow career pro Julie Walraven has written many posts on attitude and how one’s attitude can help or harm a job search. They are quite good at getting a person to think about the choices being made in life, particularly how a bad attitude after a setback can pull you off the [...]
One day my four-year-old son was sitting on my lap, intently studying my face. Finally, he asked, “What’s that?” “What’s what, honey?” “That,” he said, pointing to the faint white line snaking just above my left eyebrow. “Ah, yes. That is a scar I got when I was about your age,” I explained, telling him [...]
On Pinterest, I pinned this great quote by Anais Nin: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was greater than the risk it took to bloom.” My friend and fellow career pro Shahrzad Arasteh commented on the imagery conveyed by this quotation. Of course, it is quite a beautiful [...]
We are only in March, and already we have busted out the shorts and sandals in the Cooley household. Because temperatures were hitting the 70s and 80s around the middle of the month, there were marathon sessions of trying on last year’s clothing to see what fits and what doesn’t. While my children take great [...]
After writing Beefing Up the Résumé Vs. Hitting the Job Hunt Trail last week, I received an email from fellow résumé writer Robert Dagnall. In it, he talked of an idea called “force multipliers.” This is, in his words, “a military concept that describes actions or qualities that multiply the effectiveness of a unit beyond [...]
