Career Coaching & Career Advice Blog

One of the most common mistakes I see in resumes at the managerial and executive level is the omission of context in professional experiences. Why is context important in your resume?

1. Whenever you make a resume reader work hard to figure out your potential value and fit, you are likely not going to benefit.

2. Resumes are selling documents and context at the company, role, and career path levels can be additional arrows in your quiver.

3. Fit is a subtle but important thing. You are helping high…

How would you like to establish yourself as the hub of an expanding network? Organizing and hosting your own networking events is a smart way to accomplish this.Read my latest Monster.com article...Be the Star Attraction of Your Own Network.

One of the first roadblocks to making a career change, and this causes a lot of people to rot in their existing job, is that assumption or feeling that there is one right answer. One magic profession, that if it could be identified, would be the solution to everything. So, in the absence of finding the “right answer,” people stay put. But, while they stay put, life goes on.

In my experience, some, and only some people, have a specific thing that they “find” and in which they can be happy for the …

My most recent Monster.com article has just been published. Transfer Internally the Right Way presents 7 key success factors to increasing the probability that you will make a successful internal transfer. Have a look!