Behaviour To Climb The Stepping Stones To Career Success

The heading of this article could just as well have been How to position yourself for promotion or How to position yourself for career advancement or How to climb the success ladder or something simil...Full Article

Avoid Mistakes and Gaffes in Your Job Resume

Having mistakes and gaffes in your job resume spell disaster for your job search. The last thing an employer needs is to look at a poorly written resume. The employer is looking at possibly dozens o...Full Article

How To Win the Job-Hunting Game

When I got over the initial shock of being urged to seek alternative employment I found myself, like so many others, out beating the bushes looking for a job. I found that I was just another one of t...Full Article

Everyone Should Have a RED BALL in the Job Search

May I explain what about what a red ball means to me and how I counsel others as a career coach.A RED BALL is a symbol of what you can do and want, especially in a job search.Here are some uses for a ...Full Article

Unlimit Your Life!

Do you have a tendency to think in absolutes?Is everything good or bad, black or white?This type of thinking can severely limit your options. Or worse, prevent you from getting an accurate picture of...Full Article

The Top Ten Ways to Jump Start Your Career

1. Do What You Love.Have you ever noticed we usually love to do the things were best at? So whats your strength? Discover your passion and excel at what you do.2. Create Work/Life Balance.It really ca...Full Article

Analysing Adverts for the Creative Response

The fundamental rule is: if you are going to apply for advertised jobs then only apply for the right ones. Dont waste time by applying for the ones youve no chance of getting; not only is your time lo...Full Article

Learning a Foreign Language

Many people love learning languages or would like to learn a language and use their language skills in a job. In todays global economy the demand for language skills continues to grow as governments, ...Full Article

Overcome Interview Nerves: Be Better Prepared than Your Interviewer

Although interview preparation is everything its sad to say that perhaps as many as half of all interviewers youre going to meet will be unprepared or incompetent. Its not all their fault, its just la...Full Article

Is a Career Change on Your Horizon?

Making a career change is nothing new in todays job market.Ive heard it said that the average American changescareers at least once in his or her life. Long gone arethe days of working for the same co...Full Article

Have You Given Up On Yourself?

Have you given up on yourself? Have you decided to take the easy road and coast for the rest of your life? Have you come to the decision that you have done all you could possibly be expected to do in ...Full Article

10 Ways to Speed-Up Your Job Search Effort

Today everyone knows at least one person who has lost their job to down-sizing, right-sizing, cut-backs, production reduction or a mean, vicious "bogus leader" who could care less about your...Full Article

10 Major Signs of Job Dissatisfaction

The New Year is a great time to analyze your job and the satisfaction you get from doing it. Running the rat race is just that, scurrying around only to find that at the end of the day or week you ar...Full Article

5 Things Every New Caterer Should Know

It has been over twenty five years since I started a small catering company that specialized in International Tapas, tiny silver trays of finger foods to delight the eyes and satisfied the stomach. T...Full Article

What Recruiters Hate About Resumes And Cover Letters

Today, Im going to share with you the awful truth about resumes and cover letters.Here it is: Most of them stink.Thats not just my opinion, although Ive read nearly 15,000 resumes and cover letters ov...Full Article

3 Resume Secrets the Pros Use

You dont write a resume every day. Not even every month or year, most likely. So you cant be expected to do it flawlessly every time, right? After all, youre not a professional.Well, I am.My team and ...Full Article

Believe And Get Hired

Good things seem to come in bunches, especially in a job search. Ever wonder why?Example: ever know someone (perhaps you?) who, after many weeks in a fruitless job hunt, suddenly hit a hot streak and ...Full Article

The Computer-Friendly Resume

The evolution of technology is changing the traditional methods for job searching and recruiting. More and more companies are now relying on computers to initiate the process of hiring and are fillin...Full Article

What is Absolutely the Best Day to go on a Job Interview?

First of all, to fully understand and appreciate the answer, a couple of givens must be taken into account. What I believe to be the most important item for dealing with an interview successfully is,...Full Article

It Takes Time

The story goes that after one of Ludwig van Beethovens performances, several people were offering him their congratulations, when one woman commented, I wish God had bestowed me with such genius. It i...Full Article