Friday, March 5th, 2010
Not getting the results you want in your job search?
Don't give up! Learn what you can do to take your search to the next level. The Smarter Job Search Workshops are interactive, information-packed one-hour workshops designed to make you more successful in a number of ways:
Create winning re…
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Denver's longest running job search club. Often imitated, but never matched! At the Caffeinated Careers Club, we network, share advice, job leads, resources, and encouragement. The Arvada CCC, facilitated by job search expert Tracy Laswell Valdez, is positive, businesslike, uplifting, and focused. E…
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
More than ever before, a job seeker's resume must be carefully composed in such a way that each word on the page supports a specific career objective. And it better be all about benefits of hiring you: 75% or more of the content needs to prove your worth and demonstrate the RESULTS you will bring to…
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Recently a client of mine abruptly returned to a 40-hour a week job after more than a year of unemployment. He related his surprise at how he felt returning the 9-to-5 in a busy workplace, even having had many years of such experience. The words culture shock and jet lag came to mind - after being …
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
By Katie Smith
When people generally think of job search we tend to think about things we should be doing. I would like to direct your attention inside and begin to observe how you are BEING in your life. Granted there are always things we need to DO to create our next position, but the way we ar…
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
An esteemed colleague of mine, Carol Ross, writes a brilliant blog, often putting lucid words around the topics that I find myself pondering (though with less clarity). Her most recent, The Upside to a Recession, is about "realistic optimism" --an oxymoron better known as the silver lining…
Friday, February 20th, 2009
What does the phrase "job security" mean to you? Twenty-five years ago, job security meant finding a position in a good company, showing up on time, and performing one's duties reasonably well. Advancement within the ranks was also fairly predictable.
When I hear people use the phrase "job securi…
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Here we stand, staring straight into the new millennium, in the infancy of the Information Age. How is it, then, that you're still managing your career like it's the early '80's? Many of the assumptions and values around your career, which made perfect sense in the Industrial Age, have been outdated…