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Debra Wheatman, President of Careers Done Write, provides expert insight to the job search process that puts your career in gear with tips for interviewing, networking, job search strategies and how to create a winning resume and cover letter.
Gender Neutral Names on Résumés
Dear Debra, Q. My wife seems to think that I should distinguish myself as a man (the name Tracy can be either male or female) on my résumé. She thinks that I would be in a better position if the interviewer knew I was male instead of female. I don't believe there is this prejudice going on…
Branding Statements to Make Your Finance Résumé Pop
If your résumé does not take advantage of the chance to establish your professional brand, you are missing a huge opportunity. Imagine if you went to a restaurant and you looked at a menu with no description? No details? No mention of flaky white meat, juicy and succulent, or pan-seared to lock in flavor? The…
Résumé Help – Treasury Banking Sales Manager
Today on our Résumé Help blog we are going to illustrate how we helped a senior level sales professional in the financial services industry. If you look below, you will see not one image, but two. The first image has the usual comments critiquing the résumé. The second image shows the revised document of the…
New Job for Career Growth?
Q. Dear Deb, Since you revised my résumé, I have been at the same job for 3 ½ years. While I like the boss and the company, I feel there is no more room for advancement based on the company size. I was promoted once, but that is about as far as I can go.…
Personal Branding – Bad Mistakes to Avoid
Over the past several months, I have written a number of articles about personal branding. As you build a professional brand, you want to develop an area of focus, a strategic roadmap, and a plan of action. What you don’t want to do is make a series of bad mistakes along the way. Below is…
Workplace Stress: Top Tips for Career Survival
And the survey says, “We’re stressed!” Study after study concludes that workplace stress is a common problem that has serious consequences. Whether you are an administrative assistant or a senior level executive with global corporate responsibilities, chances are your job is stressful; this may be affecting you – and not in a good way! According…
Résumé Help - Financial Software Sales Manager
As many of my regular readers know, every Monday we feature a résumé help section that takes a look a portion of a specific résumé. Today’s sample résumé is riddled with errors. Our candidate Joshua has some very impressive results to boast about, but his document has extremely poor punctuation and grammar. This is detracting…
Creative Résumé for Event Planners
Q. Dear Deb, I am an event planner and have been having a debate with my husband about whether or not it is appropriate to use color and possibly even a few graphics on my résumé. He is a financial professional on Wall Street and thinks I should absolutely not use any color or images. …
What’s in a Career Brand?
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet is a famous line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet that most of us are familiar with, but the truth is - had Juliet not been a Capulet - the situation between the two star-crossed lovers would have been quite different. Basically, Juliet was the wrong…
Personal Branding for Financial Career Growth
Dear Deb, Q. I am a Senior Financial Analytics Manager at a major pharmaceutical firm and keep seeing articles on the internet about personal branding and professional branding. I would like to know if there is a difference between the two. Also, can you explain how branding will help me with my career? T.H., Nutley,…