As a member of Career Collective–a community of resume writers and career coaches, this article is one of many responses to Quintessential Careers “Job Action Day”. I encourage you to visit other members’ responses, which will be linked at the end of my article on November 2nd. Please follow our hashtag on Twitter: #careercollective. Challenging times call [...]

Your prospective employer, a recruiter, or hiring manager is not your best buddy and not your confidant. Yes, these people want to know about you, your background and your achievements, but they don’t need to know all about it! Many people writing their own resumes think everything needs to be explored, without knowing that every [...]

Well the 2009 TORI Awards have been announced in Orlando Florida at Career Directors International’s Career Summit and I’m proud to say that I maintain the record as the only member of the Career Directors International association to have won TORI Awards across nine consecutive years. Talk about professional pressure! This year I was honoured [...]

There are some perfectly valid reasons to leave your current company. An entrenched bullying culture, where management pay lip service but nothing ever changes. Serious mismanagement where you know that any moment auditors will be walking in the door and closing things down You are fighting an uphill battle against a family-owned and operated company, [...]

What have you done to improve your skills in the last six months? The last year? He who stands still doesn’t stand a chance in this ever-changing world. Think your job will be there forever? The title may well remain, but without a doubt, the job itself will evolve and you’ll need to keep up [...]

Give someone your undivided attention. It’s not old-fashioned to stop multi-tasking for a minute. Manners are what makes us civilised; and they also appear to be in decline. Just last week I was talking with an Operations Manager friend of mine, who was hiring. He told me he couldn’t count the number of people striding into [...]