iStockphoto.com What do you do when you need a resume in a rush? It’s a challenge, but there is help. I found “Susan Ireland’s Ready Made Resumes.” For $24.95 I downloaded her resume-writing guide, 70 resume templates and more than…
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Resume in a Rush
Tagged with: Expert Resumes for People Returning to Work, job listing, keyword, Louise Kursmark, resume, resume template, return to work, Susan Ireland, Wendy Enelow
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
Contract Work
iStockphoto.com I found myself urgently needing to update my resume yesterday. Late last week a job announcement came through the CNN alumni network. Here it is in it’s entirety: “A contact of mine sent this along and I thought it…
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Tagged with: media relations, resume, Southern Sudan
Posted in Networking, Part-time vs. Full-time, Resumes
Posted in Networking, Part-time vs. Full-time, Resumes
Resume Presentation
Times New Roman Your resume must look good. And there are concrete things you can do to ensure that. Here are some of the “presentation standards” offered by Wendy Enelow and Louise Kursmark in their book “Expert Resumes for People…
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Tagged with: Expert Resumes for People Returning to Work, Louise Kursmark, resume, returning to work, Times New Roman, Wendy Enelow
Posted in Helpful Resources, Resumes
Posted in Helpful Resources, Resumes
How to Answer “What do you do?”
Check out this post by Penelope Trunk about how to answer that question “What do you do?” Penelope makes an excellent point — most people don’t really care what you do! So get over your own discomfort and come up…
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Controlled Relaunch
iStockphotos.com It’s important to control your relaunch and not let the process overwhelm you. Often it seems there’s so much to do, so much to learn. Networking, resumes, wardrobe, child care; the list goes on and on. And there’s the…
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Crisis in Confidence
iStockphotos.com Today is a day of shaken confidence for this wannabe relauncher. One of my goals for this organizing-and-getting-things-done time of year is to network with some of my old friends and colleagues and pick their brains about what I…
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Tagged with: Bill Maher, Cliff Hackel, CNN, Diana Sperrazza, Discovery Communications, Final Cut Pro, Kerry Hannon, relauncher, shaken confidence, Sue Bennett, What's Next
Posted in My Story, Networking
Posted in My Story, Networking
Resume Style for People Returning to Work
iStockphotos.com Resumes are a sales document. They sell us — the job seeker. A bad resume will get passed over. Quickly. And so those of us who are returning to work after time off, whether it was to raise children,…
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Flexible Hours Attract Working Moms
Minh Uong/The New York Times The accounting industry appears to be ahead of the curve. The New York Times reports that many of the nation’s top firms have learned that to keep their working-mom employees, they need to offer flexible…
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Tagged with: accounting firms, Ellen Galinsky, employee retention, Ernst & Young, Families and Work Institute, flexible hours, James S. Turley, McGladrey, re-enter the workforce, stay-at-home moms, Stephen Greenhouse, The New York Times, working mom
Posted in Family, Helpful Resources, Part-time vs. Full-time
Posted in Family, Helpful Resources, Part-time vs. Full-time
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Tagged with: Black Bag Productions, Blog Talk Radio, iRelaunch, Kim Moss, re-entering the workforce, resume, strategic volunteering
Posted in My Story
Posted in My Story
Resume Strategies from Expert Resumes
iStockphotos.com Before you sit down to write your resume, you need a plan of action. In Expert Resumes for People Returning to Work, Wendy Enelow and Louise Kursmark lay out what they feel are nine core strategies for writing effective…
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Tagged with: Expert Resumes for People Returning to Work, Louise Kursmark, resume, Wendy Enelow
Posted in Helpful Resources, Resumes
Posted in Helpful Resources, Resumes