A colleague – let’s call him Paul, a Toronto-based head hunter who has many years’ experience sourcing outstanding candidates for world-class corporations, shared his formula for early success in a new position. “I tell clients to lay low at first, absorbing the vibes, seeing who’s who in the zoo. That way they intuit the power [...]
[ Continue Reading → ]Stephanie Clark
Recognized within her industry as a resume expert, with work included in major Canadian and American publications & Best Canadian Resumes, Best Canadian Cover Letters, Cover Letters for Dummies, for example – Stephanie Clark serves job hunters as owner of Vancouver Island-based New Leaf Resumes. Her expertise generates results for job hunters from new grads to post-retirement. Certified in resume, interview and career strategies, and having served almost 1000 clients and composed thousands of resumes, cover letters, key project profiles, professional bios, LinkedIn profiles and other self-marketing documents, Stephanie’s perceptive career management instincts continue to grow with professional development in up-to-date job hunt standards and tactics. As the writer of many career management articles featured on BCJobs.ca, this career enthusiast has earned her reputation as a trusted media source. You can read Stephanie’s “Creating Your Career” column in Avalon Magazine (a Canadian/American joint venture), and you will find her samples in Job Search Letters for Dummies, to be published in 2013. Visit http://www.newleafresumes.com to learn more about Stephanie.
Posts by Stephanie Clark:
April 4th, 2013
Bullying at Work
We hear a lot about bullying these days. Much of it concerns bullying at school, but this disturbing activity doesn’t stop once we leave high school – it can happen in the workplace as well. It helps to define what bullying is and what it is not. It is not a one-time only clash, it [...]
[ Continue Reading → ]March 21st, 2013
The One Question That Improves Your Job Search Outcome
We all know that having a goal is critical to actually achieving that goal – purposeful action is faster, smoother, more effective than a haphazard “let’s see if it works”! That’s not a secret. And yet, how many people give their job search critical thought and planning? It actually doesn’t have to be a complicated, [...]
[ Continue Reading → ]March 8th, 2013
The Number One Reason Most Resumes Fail to Land an Interview
(and it’s why you won’t get a great job offer either) I review a lot of resumes. Sometimes it’s through my own service and sometimes through a large university sub-contracting job. Most – up to 99% I would say – suffer from the same failure: they don’t communicate value. Value is defined as “The regard [...]
[ Continue Reading → ]February 28th, 2013
10 Best Career Building Tips
Do you ever wonder why one person appears to climb the career ladder with ease and another barely clings to one rung? Many factors come into play in building a career that satisfies both players — the employee and the employer. This short list of the very best tips might identify one area that you’ve [...]
[ Continue Reading → ]January 17th, 2013
Three Tips to Writing a Resume that Grabs Attention
Sometimes great ideas come from unusual sources. This article was inspired by research that I was conducting on how to give an awesome presentation. Here are three little yet powerful ideas that I have translated into the world of resumes! Do not begin with a professional profile. Many resumes begin with a professional background that’s [...]
[ Continue Reading → ]January 8th, 2013
You’re in Sales Job Hunter!
Job hunters seldom appreciate a hard truth: they are in sales. The product that each job hunter is pitching is, of course, “me, myself, and I,” a hard sell for many of us! Sales in general can be a difficult field, except for those natural born sales-types. The ones who can chat up a recluse, [...]
[ Continue Reading → ]January 2nd, 2013
Career Success in 2013
I made a new friend recently, a small business owner and writer like me. I admire Mary Ann Moore’s ability to generate an income in a truly authentic way. A poet and writer of prose, she also holds writing circles, and I just signed up for my third session. These have inspired my professional creativity [...]
[ Continue Reading → ]December 20th, 2012
3+ Powerful Steps to a Resilient Job Search
Let’s level out the playing field: I too have conducted a desperate job hunt. Fourteen years ago I found myself a single mom and fired from a job that, although no dream job, kept three human (and one canine) bellies fed. (That was before I hit my stride as a writer, and that detour likely [...]
[ Continue Reading → ]December 12th, 2012
Resume Rules
Resume rules abound! You’ve read them on the internet sites – make your resume one page, use only Arial or Times New Roman fonts, don’t list any specifics – leave those for the interview, never have someone else write your resume, you must have a graphic resume to grab attention, use colour, don’t use colour, [...]
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