Executive Resume Writing and Job Search Tips https://careertrend.net/blog/ Professional Executive Resume Writing Services Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:49:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Narrowing the Aperture on Your Career Story https://careertrend.net/narrowing-the-aperture-on-your-resume-story/ https://careertrend.net/narrowing-the-aperture-on-your-resume-story/#comments Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:23:05 +0000 https://careertrend.net/?p=11365 Image via: https://unsplash.com/@nordwood As I previously shared, my husband and I moved a year ago from the Texas Gulf Coast (we lived 1.5 miles from the beach) to the Missouri Ozarks to live on 8.5 acres of raw, forested land. For those who don’t know, prior to this move, we sold our 2K-sq ft home […]

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]]> https://careertrend.net/narrowing-the-aperture-on-your-resume-story/feed/ 2 My Shed-to-Office Transformation and Learning to Live One Day at a Time | CareerTrend Studio https://careertrend.net/my-shed-to-office-transformation-and-learning-to-live-one-day-at-a-time-careertrend-studio/ https://careertrend.net/my-shed-to-office-transformation-and-learning-to-live-one-day-at-a-time-careertrend-studio/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:15:28 +0000 https://careertrend.net/?p=11259 Recently, after nearly a year in temporary office quarters, I moved into my NEW CareerTrend Studio. Converting a bare structure into a fully functioning office was no small task. My husband not only envisioned the transformation process, but he also completed it in fewer than 6 weeks. He did this with a one-day-at-a-time mindset. What really struck […]

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]]> https://careertrend.net/my-shed-to-office-transformation-and-learning-to-live-one-day-at-a-time-careertrend-studio/feed/ 2 Have the Courage to Begin Again https://careertrend.net/have-the-courage-to-begin-again/ https://careertrend.net/have-the-courage-to-begin-again/#respond Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:17:59 +0000 https://careertrend.net/?p=11237 New Season, New You For many, as summer winds down, vacations are in the rearview window, kids are returning to school/college, and energies are shifting toward other, autumn priorities. This opens up the opportunity to Begin Again, with renewed focus on your career journey goals. Strategic Advantage New reports regarding high- and slow-growth industry and economic trends as well as […]

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]]> https://careertrend.net/have-the-courage-to-begin-again/feed/ 0 Finding Freedom + Creative Expression From the Space and Beauty of Raw Land | Starting Over, Again https://careertrend.net/finding-freedom-creative-expression-from-the-space-and-beauty-of-raw-land-starting-over-again/ https://careertrend.net/finding-freedom-creative-expression-from-the-space-and-beauty-of-raw-land-starting-over-again/#respond Fri, 09 May 2025 13:49:53 +0000 https://careertrend.net/?p=11226 Here we are, starting over again. But this time it’s different. It’s raw, it’s minimalistic, it’s hills and mountains, plush green foliage and tall trees. Simpler inside, so that we can imbibe in the multifaceted outside. Eight and a half acres of timbered Missouri Ozark land, to be specific. Yesterday was our first full day […]

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]]> https://careertrend.net/finding-freedom-creative-expression-from-the-space-and-beauty-of-raw-land-starting-over-again/feed/ 0 7 People Making a Splash With Their Words of the Year https://careertrend.net/7-people-making-a-splash-with-their-words-of-the-year/ https://careertrend.net/7-people-making-a-splash-with-their-words-of-the-year/#respond Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:57:00 +0000 https://careertrend.net/?p=11144 My Word of the Year My word of the year is Simplify, and I recently blogged about it. Boy, this word has hit the ground running. At nearly every turn, I’m acting it out. This includes cutting back on business interactions or processes that complicate where complexity is unnecessary, or trimming out personal (emotional and/or […]

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]]> https://careertrend.net/7-people-making-a-splash-with-their-words-of-the-year/feed/ 0 How a Year of Contemplation Led the Founder + President of Performance CXO, to Select His 3 Words https://careertrend.net/how-a-year-of-contemplation-led-the-founder-president-of-performance-cxo-to-select-his-3-words/ https://careertrend.net/how-a-year-of-contemplation-led-the-founder-president-of-performance-cxo-to-select-his-3-words/#respond Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:50:53 +0000 https://careertrend.net/?p=11152 In response to a One-Word post I wrote HERE, a former client and my friend, Gary Fly, offered up his Three Words as well as the inspired story buttressing those words. Gary is the Founder and President of Performance CXO, a management consulting firm focused on increasing revenue, EBITDA and enterprise value. He wrote the […]

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]]> https://careertrend.net/how-a-year-of-contemplation-led-the-founder-president-of-performance-cxo-to-select-his-3-words/feed/ 0 How I Chose My 2025 Word of the Year: Balancing the Nuance of Complexity With the Liberation of Simplicity https://careertrend.net/how-i-chose-my-2025-word-of-the-year-balancing-the-nuance-of-complexity-with-the-liberation-of-simplicity/ https://careertrend.net/how-i-chose-my-2025-word-of-the-year-balancing-the-nuance-of-complexity-with-the-liberation-of-simplicity/#comments Mon, 06 Jan 2025 14:23:10 +0000 https://careertrend.net/?p=11083 In the midst of a warm but windy January morning on the Gulf Coast of Texas, I chose my 2025 word of the year. You see, I’ve avidly blogged about my chosen words since 2013, amassing 13 years of thought work around actionable ‘north star words’, an exercise which began here. For the first eight […]

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]]> https://careertrend.net/how-i-chose-my-2025-word-of-the-year-balancing-the-nuance-of-complexity-with-the-liberation-of-simplicity/feed/ 2 Executive: “Do This, Not That” When Writing (or Hiring Someone to Write) Your Career Story Resume https://careertrend.net/executive-do-this-not-that-when-writing-or-hiring-someone-to-write-your-career-story-resume/ https://careertrend.net/executive-do-this-not-that-when-writing-or-hiring-someone-to-write-your-career-story-resume/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:37:07 +0000 https://careertrend.net/?p=11044 Are you feeling the anxiety that accompanies executive job search when writing your career story resume? Are you experiencing the intermittent highs of hope and the plunging moments of despair that naturally can occur when trying to wedge a job search amid an already packed work schedule or recover and rebuild your story on the […]

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]]> https://careertrend.net/executive-do-this-not-that-when-writing-or-hiring-someone-to-write-your-career-story-resume/feed/ 0 Making Career Lemonade https://careertrend.net/staying-the-course-in-your-career/ https://careertrend.net/staying-the-course-in-your-career/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:39:59 +0000 https://careertrend.net/?p=9916 Rudyard Kipling famously wrote: “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs … Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.” Most would agree, these words were written for times such as these. We are, as a planet, experiencing trying times, and some days are going to be better […]

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]]> https://careertrend.net/staying-the-course-in-your-career/feed/ 1 My “Poems of Hope” BOOK Is Now for SALE https://careertrend.net/my-poems-of-hope-book-is-now-for-sale/ https://careertrend.net/my-poems-of-hope-book-is-now-for-sale/#respond Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:00:55 +0000 https://careertrend.net/?p=10947 It took the not-so-gentle nudges from my dear husband, Rob to spark my interest in this book project, Poems of Hope: Inspiring Verse for Confidence and Joy, which is now for sale at Amazon, BarnesandNoble.com, Walmart.com, BookLocker.com and elsewhere. While I write professionally for a living, I haven’t always excelled at achieving my creative writing […]

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