How to Get the Attention of Hiring Managers: Are You Properly Dangling Your Carrot?

You have only 15-20 seconds, at most, to get the attention of hiring managers.  In a high unemployment job market, you just must dangle a “value carrot” and communicate what significant results you can deliver and produce better than other qualified candidates.  Common sense would dictate that assembly line, look-alike resumes (like chronological resumes) won’t stand out when over 20 …

4 Questions an Effective Resume Answers in 15 Seconds

In today’s new job market, the old way of “job search” using outdated resumes simply doesn’t work. Think about it… when was the last time you bought something from a door-to-door salesman? It is time to stop knocking on doors, and giving them a copy of your “chronological obituary” (your old boring resume) and start a high impact, self-marketing job …

12 In-depth Tips & Tricks for Landing (And Keeping!) a Job in 2015

In 2011, I announced that the Industrial Age workplace is over, and has been replaced with the new Protean workplace. This shift is both indisputable and immutable. 12 Protean Success Principles For Unlimited Achievement Establish high standards of personal responsibility Recognize the significant role of your own personal ambition Remember: “If it’s going to be… it’s entirely up to me” …

Don’t Believe the Myth: Get Hired Over the Holidays !

“I’m taking the holiday season off from getting a new job because no one hires between Thanksgiving and New Years,” says the majority of job seekers. Don’t believe this myth When you lose this limiting belief and replace and embrace it with a new belief that there are unlimited opportunities at any given time, especially during the holiday season, you …

Career Coaches Can Land You The Perfect Job!

With unemployment numbers on the rise and more Americans receiving pink slips every day – the problem is that the job market has become saturated with qualified out of work candidates. Many job seekers are in need of the expertise of Career Coaches who will help shape the person and their work experience into a winning combination that will position them …

Is Brand Mastery a Forgotten Art?

Former President Jimmy Carter was being interviewed by four-star admiral Hyman G. Rickover, recognized as the “Father of the Nuclear Navy.”  Carter had applied to participate in the nuclear submarine construction program.  The interview went well until Carter reached the door.  Just as he was about to depart the room, Rickover stood from his desk across the large room and said, …

Job Campaigners: Personal Branding Made Easy

Terror, anxiety, stress, depression, overwhelm, and a sense of hopelessness permeates the entire process of securing employment.  Have you ever considered that job seekers need to master more skills than a CEO of a Fortune 500 company?  While CEO’s hire and surround themselves with qualified experts in diverse disciplines, job seekers must master most disciplines themselves including goal setting, strategic planning, …

8 Tips to Run Your Day like a Millionaire (No Matter Where You are at Now)

He asked me, “How many hours a day does a happy, successful, and financially independent person have?”  I thought about it for just a few seconds and figured that it had to be a trick question.  But I decided to play along.  “24 hours a day,” I responded; waiting to hear why that was the wrong answer.  To my surprise, …