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Accounting Job Boards & Recruiters (5+5 List)

Seeking an accounting recruiter or job board? When employment agencies just aren’t enough, utilizing job boards and recruiters to boost your job search efforts can be an ideal solution. The following list of sites enable you to submit your resume to job boards and recruiters that are perfect for your financial background. Professionals such as [...]

Maximizing the Interview in 2012

Over the past decade, the hiring process has been evolving — much of it due to the poor economy. For example, social media is here to stay and has certainly affected all of us. Changes in the interviewing process have also occurred. From clients and others, I have heard a popular refrain: “I was qualified [...]

Market Brand YOU!

I have had the distinct pleasure of helping several unemployed groups of professionals by delivering one of my sought after workshops. Although it’s important to distinguish yourself when you’re employed, it’s even more important in this time of high unemployment rates to be sure you stand out from the crowd. One of my clients was [...]

Ensure Your Cover Letter Hits the Target

Back when public education was a more viable and desirable career path, a school district administrator in a large Pacific Northwest city received a cover letter that said “Please send me an application to teach anything.” What? Such a letter not only reflects a person’s lack of focus, but also hints to a degree (maybe [...]

Professionally Written Resume is Tax Deductible … Maybe

Gearing up to file your tax returns? So are millions of other Americans by seeking out tax preparation services, or the alternative, a tax software. Oddly we go from the cheer of the holidays, landing face first into one of the most stressful times for all of us: tax season. Before filing your tax returns [...]

Cover Letters – Use Facts, not Gimmicks

Gimmicks are often very effective for selling things – from breakfast cereals to cars to political campaigns – but one place they don’t work is in cover letters. Business has always been about facts and figures. Presentation of those facts and figures needs to be clear and concise. The person to whom you address your [...]

Generating Interviews with Cover Letters that Sell

Generating Interviews with Cover Letters that Sell So, you’re applying for a job. You need written representation for your resume (well, you); and yes, that dreaded cover letter is a requirement. Letters are used with varying purposes in mind: introduction, explanation, instruction, and solicitation. Even cover letters for hiring purposes can be used for a [...]

Cover Letters vs. Employment History

A detailed employment history belongs in your resume, not the cover letter. Nonetheless, you’ll need to include some reference to it, as such a history pertains to your experience and background. How to handle employment issues in a cover letter If You’re Currently Employed Obviously, if you are currently working for Company A and are [...]

Cover Letters – Creativity Rarely Counts

It’s a sad but true fact that the corporate business world is singularly unimpressed with creativity – particularly in its official communications, including cover letters. Most HR offices and hiring managers prefer cover letters to be short, simple, and focused strictly on the applicant’s skill sets. The only exception might be in creative industries, such [...]

Cover Letters are Morphed Business Letters

In these days of e-mail and instant communication, the art of letter writing has increasingly been lost. There was a time, very long ago, when school children were actually instructed not only in the art of writing letters, but in the different reasons for writing them, and how letters for various purposes differed from one [...]

Too Much on Your Plate…

Too Much on Your Plate should never be an excuse that prevents you from ongoing personal and professional development. Continuing your personal development despite time and energy challenges will help give you a competitive edge in the market while helping you remain confident and more highly employable. So, despite the challenges, here are a few [...]

Cover Letters – Avoid and Circumvent Repetition and Redundancy

In case you didn’t notice, the title of this entry is both repetitious and redundant. If it bothers you to read a brief redundant heading, imagine how annoying and counterproductive it would be for an HR manager to read a cover letter or resume filled with repeated words and phrases. Keep in mind that a [...]

Security Clearance Job Boards

Possess a secret or top security clearance? Certainly a value-add for professionals, having a security clearance is a near necessity for obtaining a job with state and federal government agencies as well as contractors who service government entities [click here for a list of the top 200 federal contractors to work for]. What jobs require [...]

5 Tips For Building a Better Career or Business Using a Mission Statement

If you want to stand-out as the best-of-the-best, you need to have laser-sharp focus. This will allow you to make purposeful and significant contributions and build higher potential for success. Many business owners and managers have taken the time to create organizational mission statements. However, few have gone through this process on a more individual [...]

Your Cover Letter – Keep it Impersonal

The purpose of your cover letter is simple: it’s a brief capsule-description of you and your professional qualifications and experience. Emphasis on the word ‘brief.’ The cover letter is not intended to be a full-blown biography – or even a detailed profile. Keep this in mind when you are applying for a job. Human Resource [...]

Cover Letters – Ask Not What They Can Do For You…

Arguably one of the greatest executives in U.S. history, the late John F. Kennedy once said: “Ask not what your country can to for you, but what you can do for your country.” This is of course a very famous quote – and definitely applies when one is writing cover letters to find employment. The [...]

3 Ways An Exec Can Spruce Up His Executive Resume & Cover Letter

The executive resume and cover letter you use — regardless of whether you’re in sales and marketing, IT, operations, finance, or wherever — should be a unique “beast.” Your executive resume (and, cover letter too!) shouldn’t look like those used by your subordinates. An exec resume is typically heavier in content (sometimes 3+ pages in [...]

Watch Negative Self-Talk

Many people use negative thinking and unconstructive self-talk instinctively. I frequently help my clients overcome this by boosting awareness and changing the way they think and behave. Awareness and practice can help change the negative self-talk that probably occurs more often than you think. It is an unhealthy pattern worthy of noticing and changing to [...]

Job-Search Pics For a Chuckle

Are you having a painful job search? Not happy in your job? Sometimes, we just need some laughs to help relieve the tension and stress that accompanies the “task” of tolerating the people around us. I hope you enjoy these pics with captions. Wish to republish any of these?If so, you must keep the picture [...]

How to Produce a Quality Brag Book (Press Release)

Get your copy of “How to Design, Write, and Compile a Brag Book” (2nd edition) now. “It’s No Brag If It’s True.” Springfield Author and Career Specialist Publishes Sixth Book Springfield, Ohio – November 18, 2011 – Well-known Springfield author and career specialist, Teena Rose, says, “It’s no brag if it’s true. That’s why I [...]

Don’t Suck at Feedback

Feedback is the most important thing in a job. The statement itself seems a tad dramatic, but it is utterly true. Without feedback, a team cannot succeed, an employee cannot grow in his or her career, and a boss cannot teach. That’s why it is so important to both ask for and give out feedback [...]

Doubt Can Advance a Career

Though it may seem contradictory, a sense of doubt can actually advance a career. I’m not advocating self-worry or timid executions when it comes to working with others, but instead a curious demeanor in the workplace. People grow in business by asking questions, by assessing the situation and questioning the ways in which to go [...]

Clarity in Conversations

Clarity is so important in a work environment. Being specific and clear in conversations saves more time than anything else. When you are precise in your conversations, there is no need for multiple fact-checking, wasted time finding answers to a poorly-worded questions, and it eliminates most mistakes for the future. Make sure that as you start [...]

How to Leverage CraigZoom for Job Search

“Seeking a new job-search tool? For some, the power of CraigsList is overlooked. Find out how to put CraigsList to work for you.” Not surprisingly, CraigsList may not be your first stop when gearing up for a new job. But if you do use CraigsList as part of your “job-search arsenal,” you’ll love the results [...]

Romance in the Next Cubicle

In the 1980s, Pat Benatar banged out the lyrics, “Love is a Battlefield”; and if you don’t proceed with caution, that’s exactly how an office romance can turn out. Although an office relationship can create some sticky personal and professional situations, employers can’t stop them and employees can’t seem to avoid them. When you put [...]

Taking Notes Can Help!

If you want to be the best at your job and impress your boss more than anyone else, take notes! Here are a few points as to how taking notes can advance your career. Impress your coworkers: In an office setting, it will be helpful to take notes in an electronic format so you can [...]

Lying in Your Resume Can Become Costly

For jobseekers who think that lying in their resumes is perfectly acceptable, as long as they don’t get caught, might want to reconsider. Washington spearheaded a bill that makes lying in a resume a crime; one punishable by a hefty $1,000 fine. Inflating a resume, whether claiming a false degree or beefing up your skill [...]

Job Hunting Online Gets Trickier

According to this definition, an applicant must “express interest” in the job, whether by sending in a resume, applying on the company’s site, or whatever other means the company requests, says Gerry Crispin, founder and principal of CareerXRoads and a long-time Internet job hunting expert. That “expression of interest” must show that he or she [...]

Gaining the Edge in a Tight Job Market (Press Release)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Teena Rose Resume to Referral 937.325.2149 phone Executive Resume Writing Services Gaining the Edge in a Tight Job Market Springfield, Ohio, Company Blends Personal Service and Internet Solutions Springfield, Ohio – November 17, 2011 – “With the Fed tightening the money supply, the outsourcing of high-end jobs and general belt tightening [...]

The Face-to-Face Interview: Maximize the Opportunity

From my perspective in working with executives, particularly over the past few years….two things have become apparent: 1. Everyone purports to know how to interview…but few execute well. 2.The most qualified candidate does not necessarily get the offer…the offer usually goes to the candidate who interviews the best. So, if you have survived the emailing, [...]