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An Open Letter to Job Recruiters Everywhere

Dear Recruiter, I sincerely thank you for your interest in my resume and skills that I have worked so hard to achieve. As an independent contractor, I have relied on you for the better part of 3 decades to sustain me and help me fulfill a lifelong dream. I have been successful and in no way do I discount what you did to help me get there. The choices I have made were inevitably mine and mine…

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Contractor to Corporate (or corporation domestication)

I experienced an unusually long dry spell in my writing last year that scared me into a corporate job. Never again did I want to feel that out of control of my future and against my better judgement, I accepted a delicious carrot that was dangled in front of me – full-time employment. What’s happened since then has completely thrown me off my proverbial axis.

If any of you out there are full-time…

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Five things you should do immediately after being fired

Tweet? Facebook rants? Heavy drinking? I bet several of you reading this did one of these…didn’t you? Helpful? No. Cathartic. Absolutely! Ok, now that you’ve thrown that temper tantrum, and nursed that hangover, now what? Let’s talk about getting a plan together that makes sense.

Five things you should do immediately.

Update your resume– Work with a resume expert or at least a good writer to…

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Building a Strong Team 101

I’ve seen it a million times. Put a bunch of bodies in chairs and expect them to become a productive team. Add bodies; add water – boom instant team! What??

I work in an office with an assorted array of writers, with an assorted array of personalities, traits, and skill levels. We all excel at one thing or another, but collectively we’ve nothing in common. I blame management mostly for this. It…

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Anyone can play stupid...how do you confront fake stupid?

If You Knew it All...

If You Knew it All…

There are instigators and there are the quiet, silent types. There might even be a third category – the quiet, silent instigator. Who’s in your office? Why would you even care? Well, because knowing the difference between these two, possibly three personality types, might help you understand yourself and bring you towards office fulfillment. Bullshit. What this blog will do at the very most is…

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Why Employers Need to Stop the Cattle Calls

Resume Wranglers, Database Bootleggers, and Cattle Call requisitions. Every time your phone starts blowing up with phone calls, I bet at least half of you say “Moo”. You feel like a penned in bovine. No offense to you, but you’re not special to the employer or the people responsible for filling up your voicemail. You are just a live little body with a brand on your butt that says you need to be…

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I Want My Kid to be Street and Tech Smart. Is That Too Much to Ask?

I have two. Kids that is. One is book smart, the other is street smart. I’m a little of both, so YEA for me, a little of my parenting and DNA magic is sprinkled evenly. Or is it? I worry about them both for one will win in the world of academia, but may not be able to know the difference between a sweet talking girl and a stalker, while the other will while away in his blissful rose-colored…

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