The Resume’s Evolution
Nowadays you must craft the advertising of your qualifications as if you were your own company! Smart companies shift tactics based on market opportunity and needs! Are you adjusting your efforts to position yourself as the ideal careerist in today’s ever evolving job search market?
Dare to re-shape and revolutionize your job search campaign, beginning with a daring new resume that will soar above the rest.
A cutting-edge and interview-capturing resume…
Breaks the Traditional Formatting Boundaries: It is ‘okay’ to use color, perhaps a testimonial, a quote or even a logo on your resume. In fact, I encourage it! See what a difference it makes. It will impress within seconds, enthralling your employer and guiding their eyes further down the dossier.
Facebook and Your Career
Facebook and Your Career
Excuse me. Come again? Are you kidding? What is the first thing you do when you want more
information about ANY topic? You Google it. Simply put, Facebook can influence your online brand, your digital reputation, your corporate identity, and ultimately your employability.
The most important thing you must embrace is that EMPLOYERS WILL ABSOLUTELY GOOGLE YOU. If you have a name, you are Googleble! If you have any social networking account, even if just one—you are definitely Googleble, which means your reputation is searchable. So, now that we established this, what do you do with that
information? Read more 
Love and Work Together? True?
Do you agree with the following statement? “You have the right to love what you do and do what you love.”
Are you feeling just a little bit guilty about believing this or wanting to buy-in? If you are, you are not alone. But…are we correct in feeling a bit guilty or are we just settling for less?
It seems almost self-indulgent to want to love what you do when so many are out of work. Doesn’t it? But if I have learned anything about this world it is that we live with this ’dichotomy’ of life. Why then shouldn’t we strive for excellence when we are fortunate enough to be in that position?
Loving what you do is career excellence! Is it not? I read this great article via Forbes.com and while I loved the article and found myself infused with inspiration, I wondered how many buy-ins I could garner. Here is a snippet from that article by Kathy Caprino:
“Why should you take these steps? Because you have the right to love what you do and do what you love. People like to claim that loving your work is a pipedream – but those who defend that view are wrong. Enjoying your career and feeling there’s deep meaning and purpose in it is not just for a select, fortunate few. It’s for anyone who believes in him/herself and takes the right kind of action”
What say you careerist? Is your job search driven by your passion or your wallet? My opinion? Give me the ‘pipedream’! It keeps me alive and smiling! But I also have a practical side. I coach my clients to never give up on their dream job but if they find themselves in a financial crisis, take a temporary pause. You can still choose a career path that will align with your future goal. I do however, recommend that if you will be moving your dream job to the back burner, that you strategically choose it’s replacement! Don’t go join the circus unless you can leverage those skills in your new job, and credibly promote them. And DO NOT accept a job you hate. Mental health is as important as financial health!
Check out the post by Kathy Caprino over at Forbes. It is an excellent article with actionable steps to reconnect with your ‘old love.’
Rosa Elizabeth Vargas
www.caeersteering.com
321-704-7209
Missing: The Humane In Today’s Job Search
“Job seekers are not just suits. In fact they often own a full ensemble of caci pants along with a wife/husband and kids. Maybe a dog too.”
As a recruiter or hiring authority–have you ever been in a position where you were unkind to a job seeker?
As a career professional or resume writer – have you ever become so frustrated with a client that all you wanted was to ‘get rid’ of them?
Let’s Backpedal For a Moment
What inspired this post is the following article which was shared by one of my colleagues, Gayle Howard on Facebook. Please read here. To sum up the situation: a recruiter “replied all” which sent a scathing rejection email to about 4000 people. There are so many things wrong with that action that we could critique on a multitude of fronts, but the questions that were most strongly gnawing at me were the following: Read more
