5 Best Practices for LinkedIn Profiles for IT Professionals
Challenge: How do you get noticed? If you’ve been actively networking with colleagues using your LinkedIn profile and other social media accounts then you’re ahead of the crowd. You might even have a game plan for networking your way into Google. If so, stop reading and get started now!! For those still with me, remember […]
6 Steps to Updating Your Resume
Here are 6 tips to update your resume today so you can be ready to fire off your resume when that recruiter calls with your dream job. Do these today! 1. Make sure your resume heading is updated and correlates with your LinkedIn profile headline. You don’t want someone to read your resume and be intrigued […]
Which is Better: A Functional or Chronological Executive Resume?
One of the most contentious topics regarding resume preparation (second only to the “How many pages?” question) is “Which resume format is better, functional or chronological?” It is also one of the most frequent questions posed to me by current and prospective executive resume writing clients. You will see at the end of this post that […]
Career Transitions Don’t Need to be Scary
The scenario… Potential Client: “This is a little scary. I haven’t done this in a long time.” Me: “Yes, it is scary but very doable. And I am here to help you through it.” That was part of a discussion I had yesterday with someone looking to make a jump and change companies, and maybe even […]
Is There a Career Transition Formula for Success?
I am often asked what the critical “must-dos” during the job search process are and how much time you should invest in those tasks. It is as if there was is a standard formula for success that we can rely on. Unfortunately, there is no such formula (that I know of) for figuring this out. […]