You’re doing great work for your boss, delivering wonderful value for your employer. But you might be struggling to capture some kind words about your work. This might be useful for your résumé/CV, your LinkedIn profile, or as input for your next performance evaluation.
The secret is to capture the information while it’s still fresh.
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Artists have one. Web designers have one. Writers have one. Should you?
A portfolio, I mean. Concrete examples of your past work that you can show to prospective employers.
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There’s a lot of advice out there about how to create a great résumé or CV. There are stories circulating about how people delivered theirs along with a pair of shoes, or dressed up as a clown.
People are desperate for jobs, and at some point you get so frustrated you’re ready to try just about anything. But here’s the question: Do you want people circulating stories about you, or do you want a job?
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Carrie Pinsky wrote a great column in the most recent NCBR, talking about age discrimination in the hiring process and what you can do about it:
Take age out of the hiring equation
There’s lots of people who give you conflicting advice about how to create the perfect résumé or CV. What I tell people is to get lots of ideas and opinions, but then come up with something that you think does the best job of representing you to your target employers.
That said, here are things that I talk about with clients when they want to improve their résumé:
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Most job seekers have heard about LinkedIn these days. If you want to maintain a professional presence online to make connection with employers, it’s a must. But LinkedIn can do a lot of other things that you might have overlooked.
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Last year when I was job hunting, I had a pre-interview call that totally caught me off guard. I learned a bunch from the experience, because I blew it. I didn’t get an interview, because I never passed the screening call.
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Non-traditional jobsThis morning I led a short discussion about non-traditional jobs. What is this? Well, a traditional job is where
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If you currently have a job, congratulations. But recognize that you’re NOT going to have that job at some point in the future.
Given the state of the job market these days, that transition is probably sooner than you’d like it to be.
It might happen as job loss, reorganization, retirement, or even a change that you elect. But it’s coming.
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If you’re trying to make professional connections, LinkedIn is clearly the place to be. Everybody’s there, everybody’s connecting.
But I’m surprised at the number of people who haven’t given much thought to the image they’re projecting.
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