Today’s title is The Can Fall At Any Time on Your Job. Mondays, which is today, and Tuesdays are the two prime days for, for terminations, for exiting people outta corporations. If you were to exit today, you were asked to leave your company, are you prepared? Is your resume ready? Is your LinkedIn profile […]
Sit in the Driver’s Seat for Career Management
Today, top topic is sit in the driver’s seat for career management. Don’t be a passenger or a backseat driver. Take the steering wheel and control your career. You have a long journey going in and out. Make sure you take control. You have direction over that journey. You are in charge of your career.
I am stressed, not getting enough interviews
Today’s topic is I am stressed, not getting enough interviews. I hear that quite a bit, and people are very frustrated when I present across the world. Job search is a frustrating project. It is a project. Treat it as a full, if you’re in career transition, unemployed. It doesn’t matter where you are in […]
Networking is Crucial to Career Management
Today’s topic is networking is Crucial. Crucial to your career management. So many graduates from different universities across the world fail, fail to use their alumni as a source for leads and ideation. Take this on board. You are part of a club that alumni club use. Your alumni, they all have a huge network.
A Job Search is a Marketing Campaign
Today’s topic is a job search, is a marketing campaign. When entering a job search, treat it professionally, treat it as a full-time gig. The more hours you put into it, the better it’s going to be for you. So treat it as a marketing, a sales plan you are selling yourself.
What use is LinkedIn to my Career Management?
So today we’re gonna talk about what use is LinkedIn to my career management Now, You are all gonna say, what? Are you gonna know? What am I gonna say? Yes. It’s vital you, without LinkedIn, you haven’t got a leg to stand on in career management. It’s a vital platform that you must be […]
You are Measured on Your Performance
Today’s topic is you are going to be measured on your performance fill your resume, your CV with metrics dollar value. Value, Euro value or whatever other currency value and percentiles. The more metrics you have in your resume, the more you can sell yourself and the more impact you make with the reader, the […]
Don’t be Ordinary – Be Extraordinary
Today’s topic is don’t be ordinary, be extraordinary. You need to make yourself stand out. Good career management means being visible. Be visible on LinkedIn, not just when you are gainfully employed. Not just when you’re unemployed in career transition, but when you are gainfully employed. Plus, while you are in career transition and gainfully […]
I Have Little Work-Life Balance
Today’s topic is, I have little work-life balance. I have little work-life balance. How sad is that statement? So I hear this a lot too much. I hear it probably three or four times a week from people I speak to in my private practice when I manage their career etc. So it is […]
The Structure, Font, Design and Layout of a Resume is Important!
Today’s topic is the structure. The font design and layout of a resume is important. First impressions count to the human eyes. And that ATS for, uscanning machinery, which is very complicated and very strict on your resume, is your resume, your cv, performance driven and seductive to both the ATS and the human eye.
What is an ATS Resume/CV?
Today’s topic is about Applicant Tracking System (ATS). So you only get one kick of the can. You only get one chance to. But today, you are not just impressing the human eye, you are also impressing the scanning machinery, otherwise known as ats. It’s a very sophisticated application that is employed by human resource […]
A friend accepted an Interim Management position. What is it?
Today’s topic is a friend accepted an interim management position. What is that? So interim management is becoming more and more prevalent in today’s recruitment. It’s more for the more mature professional. So somebody may be at the latter end of their career who is wanting to accept a embrace, a new challenge. So basically […]
Applying for jobs, NOT securing interviews
Welcome to another Career Tips for a Crazy World, A one minute quick career tip. Today’s topic is “Applying for jobs, NOT securing interviews.“ Did you know 75%? Yes. 75% of resumes go into a black hole. Why? Because they aren’t ATS friendly applicant. Tracking system friendly. Is your resume ATS friendly? Perhaps you better […]
My boss is too overbearing & demanding. What do I do?
today’s topic is, sadly, I hear it a lot, it’s my boss is too overbearing and demanding. What do I. How shocking is that, that here I hear that far too often and it’s too much. People shouldn’t have to put up with a boss. Overbearing and demanding. Well, that says a lot about our […]
Languages on your Resume/CV/LinkedIn
Today’s topic, languages on your resume or your linked. If you are bilingual, multilingual, sell them. They’re a great selling point. They are a sales proposition. Not everybody can speak one or two, three or four languages, so sell them. That’s a great selling point that makes you stand out from the competition. All the […]
Toot Your Horn
Today’s topic is gonna be Toot Your own. When you go on a job search and in general career management, you need to sell yourself. You have nothing to do with finance, supply chain, or any other function. You are selling yourself, articulate your value, your offering, each one of these viewers and the replay. […]
I’m ambitious. I want to get to the C Suite!
Today’s topic is I’m ambitious. I want to reach the C suite. A lot of people say that to me because I specialize at the senior executive level. And it is possible, yes, of course, it’s possible. Anything’s possible, but you have to have the right attitude. It’s not impossible, but bear in mind the […]
Deliver a powerful message to the Hiring Manager
Today’s topic is deliver a powerful, a powerful message to the hiring manager. First impressions count, right? You make impressions based in a few split seconds. The more times your name is before an HR manager, the more you will be remembered. So when you apply via job board or via a corporate website, If […]
You are the champion and owner of your career
Look at where we are in the world right now, in the last say six or eight weeks thousand upon thousands have been laid especially from the technology sector.Most of them 90%, probably, totally caught by surprise. Those were employees. I bet they are not managing their career. Well they shouldn’t be because they never […]
You are a Billboard
You see billboards when you drive along the roads, specifically in the country, huge billboards. This is what the companies engaged to sell that product. Remember you are a product if you are on a billboard, what was that billboard say about you? What would the text be? Think about when you go into job […]