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Category: Careers

Stop looking at me… on paper

May 16, 2020
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| Accounting, Aspiration, Branding, Careers, Education, Employment, Goal Setting, Inspiration, Motivation, Reclaimed, Self-Improvement

Originally published November 21, 2018 For years I’ve been blessed to land jobs along my career track, whether or not I seemed qualified on paper. Every time I change jobs, though, the journey to land the next one has been riddled with struggles to help prospective employers see past what one outright called “your lack…

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And the award for most efficient goes to…

May 16, 2020
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Originally published January 24, 2017 Anyone who knows me knows I’m an efficiency hound. A year ago, during my annual performance evaluation at work, I listed among my team goals “to develop with my supervisor the most efficient nonprofit finance team in the region”, a goal I borrowed from a former supervisor with a different…

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Innovative office specialist launches career-focused website

May 16, 2020
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Originally published March 5, 2016 Today’s page comes from the book of an aspiring techie I’ve known since he still had dreams of being an architect. Imagine how pleased I was to be directed to the website of this young office specialist after he designed and posted a site devoted to promoting his career history…

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Résumé writing from a performance evaluation POV

May 16, 2020
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Originally published September 10, 2015 I wrote a few weeks ago about my supervisor’s response to my request for a 90-day review. She granted me the review, during which we looked over my first 90 days on the new job and looked ahead to our goals for the next 90 days. A month later, company-wide…

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Do the work: Make your résumé a living document

May 16, 2020
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Originally published September 10, 2015 Breathing new life into your career – something we all seem to want to do all the time – starts with giving new life to your résumé today. Crafted properly, a living résumé is not easy, nor is it done with a Mary Poppins-like snap of the fingers. In fact,…

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My First 90 Days: Introspection meets employee review

May 16, 2020
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Originally published August 20, 2015 It’s that exciting milestone in any new job, at which you and your supervisor get to swap stories about how well – or poorly – you’re doing. And for me, that time rolled around two weeks ago. Hard to believe that I had been at this new gig for three…

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At the corner of Passion and Purpose

May 16, 2020
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Originally published April 1, 2015 How do you know when you’ve found the job or entrepreneurial experience that fits you like no other? I’ve left two solid jobs in the last four years, both times for reasons I couldn’t quite articulate until recent weeks. I’m also a part-time entrepreneur, for all the paradox that statement…

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Job front: Chasing the job interview with a résumé

May 16, 2020
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Originally published February 3, 2015 You’ve submitted more than 200 applications, résumés, and cover letters in the last six months. You’ve made impressions at numerous job fairs. Somehow, though, you’ve been on less than a score of interviews. What are prospective employers missing here? Moreover, what might you be missing in all this? As this…

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My first 90 days: Seeing the forest for the trees

May 16, 2020
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Originally published January 20, 2015 If you’re anything like me, God forbid, you probably assess yourself as rigorously as your employer does during your #First90 days on the job. I don’t have a system or scale by which I measure the start of every job I’m hired to do. Still, I make it a point…

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Job front: A few of my favorite things

May 16, 2020
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Originally published January 15, 2015 One of my connections on LinkedIn wrote me to compliment me on what he describes as a unique background. Specifically, he clarified, mine is a long list of diverse job experiences. I’m grateful to him for pointing this out. After he mentioned it, I started looking at my experience a…

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