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I run into this kind of thing all the time when helping people with their job search (see if this sounds like anyone you know): Me: “So, what do you do / did you do at work?” The Other Guy: “I made sure stuff turned out. I understand business goals, and I worked [...] What most people do when they lose their job, based on what I’ve witnessed, is not take it seriously enough. They run down to the EI office to get their claim started, call their friends and family to give them the bad news, then go home. They might look at job ads, but more probably [...] Any of you read The Tao of Pooh ? It’s a slim little volume with a cute message: Eeyore grumbles, Piglet worries, Tigger rushes, Rabbit connives–but Pooh just is. These are animals in a set of children’s stories, if you haven’t encountered them before. I believe the Tao of Pooh is very relevant to the [...] We all know that jobhunting sucks. For nearly everybody, the jobhunt is like war: flashes of excitement between what seem like endless periods of bored waiting. Everyone I’ve talked with over the years about the process of looking for work has shared an observation similar to this one: “It sure doesn’t take long for your [...] Reframing is a powerful perspective-changing tool with which someone takes a thing out of its expected context and forces the viewer to re-experience it as something that completely changes his or her mind about it. Ronald Reagan did this to Jimmy Carter in 1980. President Carter was going on about something anti-Republican in that year’s [...] I’ll admit it: I’ve always been a nut for the Fall of the Roman Republic. Anyone who’s seen the two brilliant (and outrageously luxurious) two seasons of HBO’s Rome and doesn’t have an apoplectic fit every time a boob appears on camera will probably agree it’s a great story. At any rate, it brought the [...] OK this is an “idea” post. Comment, disagree, whatever. Participate! There’s a guy named L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (I don’t think we should hold that against him, though I do wonder why you’d choose to be a published author who goes by his initials–”What do I call you, Le ?”) I’ve read exactly two books [...] Six years of grant applications for municipal funding of non-profit society programs crossed my desk from 2003 to 2008. Half the time somebody else would drop the ball and as chairman I’d have a last-minute assignment to complete their assessments, too. As a business administration and operations management grad, the financial and functional sections were [...] …is that nobody reads them. Not in detail. Based on all my personal experience, that of the hundreds of job seekers I’ve helped, and interviews with many HR professionals, and having been a hiring manager myself, I can tell you that employers do not read your resume. They scan. They scan the top third of [...] |
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