If you are a manager or senior manager writing your own resume, don’t concentrate exclusively on achievement of KPIs to the exclusion of the people side of the business. Of course your achievements in terms of reducing costs, driving revenue growth, and delivering strategic outcomes are great. But they are not the only thing you [...]

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This week’s Question: What advice would you give an employee to prepare for a formal performance review? I would hope that the employee would have kept a career journal during the year. If that is the case, I would counsel the employee to review his or her career journal and review all the instances in the [...]

Extract: Today’s podcast is about getting your information together. You know information gathering is one of the most important aspects of creating a great resume. It’s like any project really. Whether you are painting the walls of your home, or creating a culinary masterpiece from your kitchen, success equals preparation. Sure you can open a [...]

Received another example of a cringeworthy D-I-Y resume today and so like Peter Finch in the movie “Network” I have decided to make a stand. Yes, right here I’m going to open the windows and scream “‘Responsible for’ is a dead phrase and I’m not going to take it any more!” Okay, perhaps that was [...]