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What To Include And Exclude From Your Resume Aug 21, 2017

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Have you ever started applying for jobs and submitted a ton of applications but didn’t really get any responses or getting a ton of rejection letters?

Or not making it past the application stage?

If the answer is yes, there might be something wrong with your resume.

What to include on your resume:

1) Contact information

First and last name (put what you want to be called on your resume, you can put your legal name on your application)
Phone number - it should be the number you want to be contact at (cell phone vs. house phone)
Email
City and state

2) Education

If you have a college degree, include your college degree and beyond
If you do not have a college degree, you want to make sure you have your high school education on there

3) Skills

Should be bulleted out
5-10 skills
Relevant to the jobs you’re applying for

4) Experience

Job history
If you don’t have any working history, you can include college projects and / or volunteer experience

What to exclude from your resume:

1) Graduation dates

2) Objectives

3) References

Remove the references
Also remove the line ‘references available upon request’

4) CAPTIAL LETTERS

5) Long summaries

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Help! My Boss Is A Jerk / Mean / A Bad Leader Aug 14, 2017

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Have you ever worked for a boss that was a complete a jerk? Or you thought they may have been the spawn of satan?

I want to talk to you about this situation today because I know it is not easy.

12 Action Items

1) Observe

2) Don’t jump to conclusions

3) Not to let your work suffer

4) Document

5) Keep emails

6) Have really open, honest communication

7) Being that leader

8) Taking the high road

9) Being the better / bigger person

10) Try to determine what motivates them and what sets them off

11) Contributing to and celebrating success

12) If you need to jump ship:

Do your research.

Determine interview questions that you can ask while you’re in an interview with your next future boss.

Need to Make A Career Change? Not Sure Where To Start? I Got You! Aug 07, 2017

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Have you ever been in a situation where you knew you needed to make a change in your career and you weren’t sure what change should be?

Or what you want to do?

Or what that change should be?

Sometimes when we need to make a career change it can be overwhelming if we are unclear on what we want to do or where we should be going or even how to get there.

Really the most important thing when we are looking at making a career change is working your plan backwards. Meaning, reverse engineering your career plan. We start out where you want to end up and then work our way backwards and figure out step by step how we are going to get there.

5 Steps to Career Clarity

1) Figure out where you want to go

2) Ask yourself why you want to get there

3) What skills do you need to accomplish, or acquire, that you don’t already have now?

4) Figure out how you’re going to close the gap on the skills you need to have (number 3) and the skills you have now.

5) Start having conversations.

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10 Ways To Lead Without Authority or Title Jul 31, 2017

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10 Ways To Lead Without Authority or Title

Make sure you are coming from a genuine place
Be constantly learning and growing
Want to be the one who is asking the tough questions
Always be asking for feedback
Helping your colleagues when they need it
Don’t wait to be asked to do something
Take on additional responsibilities and be that leader
Asking your manager how you can help
Be a top producer with top quality work
Being positive and staying positive through tough situations

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Top 13 Reasons You Are Failing Your Phone Interviews Jul 24, 2017

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Top 13 Reasons You Are Failing Your Phone Interviews:

Research or lack thereof research
Eating and / or chewing gum
Not knowing the company you applied to
Not knowing the job you applied to
Coming across as desperate
Applying to every job
Not being able to talk about money
Working out during your phone interview
Smoking
Lying / being caught in a lie / just being shady
Inability or unwillingness to answer questions
Saying yes to a drastic payout
Not aligning with the level of the position

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Co-ops vs. Interns / Internships Jul 17, 2017

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Have you ever wondered the difference between a co-op and an intern?

Co-ops

Good way to get your foot into the door of a good company you are targeting
Can be required, not always and if you’re part of a co-op program you are stopping classes to work full time
Paid program
Usually lasts about 3-12 months
You get school credit
Heavily related to your school program / major / area of study
Could be part of a rotational program

Interns / Internships

For current students
Internships are typically shorter than the co-ops, usually lasting over the summer or fall/spring
Compensation - can be paid, unpaid or an exchange for housing or something similar
Not typically required
Typically not getting school credit

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I Want To Be A Future Business Owner / Transitioning From Your Corporate Job To Being A Business Owner Jul 10, 2017

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I have had quite a few people reach out to me asking how to transition from corporate america to being a business owner.

1) Answer: How do you want to be helping other people?

2) Answer: What skills do you need to learn?

This will be a never ending list!

3) Answer: What Skills do you need to learn before you will feel ready to start?

Make sure this list is what you truly need to learn before you start?

Hint: you can start earlier than you think!

4) Answer: How can your day job help you with your future business?

5) Answer: Can you be working on any cross functional teams?

6) Answer: How are you dedicating your team to learn, test and invest in the things you want to try?

7) Find a business coach you trust online and start consuming their content.

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What Is Your Six Word Story? Jul 03, 2017

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Have you guys heard about the six word story?

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What would your six word story be as it relates to your career?

Essentially what this six word story would be, is a story, about your career, in only six words.

What words would you choose?

Mine would be:

Learn, grow, thrive.

Help, coach, teach.

What would be your six word story as it relates to your life in general?

Do you have alignment between the two?

Should they be?

Do you need to make any changes?

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ATS / Applicant Tracking Systems / Resumeland / Resume Black Hole - All Explained Jun 26, 2017

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Where does your resume go after you hit submit in an application? It is typically referred to as resmeland which what we are talking about today!

Key points:

1) Upload your resume in every application.

2) There is no keyword search or algorithm that automatically rejects people.

3) You could be rejected without someone looking at your resume.

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You're Rejected Because You're Overqualified Jun 19, 2017

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Have you ever been rejected from a position or from an application for the reason that you are overqualified?

This is legitimate reason to turn someone down for positions however there are a lot of assumptions and myths out there around this topic so let’s talk about this!

I want to talk about this topic in 4 main topics.

Common Myths

People think they are getting rejected because they are too old
“I was told I was overqualified for the position but now what I think is you won’t hire me because I will someday take the hiring manager’s job”
The hiring manager or recruiter feels threatened

Candidate Concerns

Income
Supporting their family
They want to do work that is easier than what they have been doing in the past

HR / Human Resources / Recruiting / Hiring Manager Concerns

Offering people work that is going to challenging and exciting for them
We feel people will leave early or right away
Position alignment
Compensation

Things You Can Do

Aim higher
If you’re looking to do easier work, ensure you are talking to everyone you talk about why you want to make the move and what is motivating this transition

Being overqualified is not the same as being under qualified for a position.

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