150 More Funniest Resume Mistakes, Bloopers and Blunders Ever

150 More Funniest Resume Mistakes, Bloopers and Blunders Ever 548 And all of these really happened. Don’t miss the Top 10 at the bottom. Enjoy! From CareerBuilder.ca’s study via Mainstreet.com: Resume delivered in a balloon A four-page resume detailing every position and volunteer job a person has ever had since he was 12 Each line had one bold word that formed a “hidden” message about how great the applicant would be for the position [The resume was] Scrawled in pencil on butcher’s paper Listed “Have flown on a corporate jet” as a notable achievement A resume etched into a wooden cutting board Many small teddy bears and daisies adorned the edges of the pink paper (used for the resume) Listed “Worked with my dad building things. Worked with my mum cleaning the house,” as past experience From Business Insider’s HR Execs’ 13 Most Common Resume Blunders: “Extensive experience in pubic financing.” “Please find the attached resume that highlights all my kills.” From CareerBuilder.com’s 2012 Study of Outrageous Resume Mistakes: Candidate called himself a genius and invited the hiring manager to interview him at his apartment. Candidate applying for a management job listed “gator hunting” as a skill. Candidate specified that her resume was set up to be sung to the tune of “The Brady Bunch.” Candidate’s resume had a photo of the applicant reclining in a hammock under the headline “Hi, I’m _____ and I’m looking for a job.” Candidate listed “to make dough” as the objective on the resume. Candidate applying for an accounting job said he was “deetail-oriented” AND spelled the company’s name incorrectly. From Huffington Posts’s 21 Funny Resumes Cover Letters: Actor’s resume specified a role in “The Departed” directed by Martin Scoresissers. Candidate listed experience as a “Marijuana Dealer and Nefarious Dude” “Objective: Ideal position would be businessman, with $18,000 to $250,000 in salary…” “Previous Work Experience: Skateboarder from 1980’s to present time. Job duties include hanging out with friends, drinking, smoking, doing tricks such as ollying…” Work Experience: “fileing files” “I’m fresh our [sic] of university with a childish sense of wonder and 100RPM sense of drive.” Hobbies: Eyebrow tweezing From CareerBuilder.com’s 2013 Study of Outrageous Resume Mistakes: Resume didn’t include the candidate’s name. Resume listed the candidate’s online video gaming experience leading warrior “clans,” suggesting this passed for leadership experience. Resume included time spent in jail for assaulting a former boss. Resume listed the candidate’s objective as “To work for someone who is not an alcoholic with three DUI’s like my current employer.” Resume consisted of one sentence: “Hire me, I’m awesome.” Resume was submitted from a person the company just fired. Resume included pictures of the candidate from baby photos to adulthood. On the job application, where it asks for your job title with a previous employer, the applicant wrote “Mr.” From AskReddit’s What Is The Most Unique/Outrageous Thing Someone Has Put On A Resume: (Someone commented: “Reading this thread just boosted my hopes of employment by like 200%”) Under ‘Have you ever been convicted of a felony’: “Yes… Arson. Will explain in interview.” “One applicant tried to make an impression by using four different fonts, three ink colors and a variety of highlighting options on her résumé” Last job: Plumber. Reason for leaving: “Couldn’t plumb.” “I received one that was 5 pages long once. The reason why it was that long was because when she put down that she worked at [pizzeria name] as a “Pizza Maker” she listed each step of making a pizza as a separate job duty” “I was interviewing a guy, and I asked him a question about his Master’s degree he had on his resume. His response? ‘Oh I don’t have my Master’s degree yet â€" I just plan on getting it someday.'” Under skills: “calculator on sight” Under management experience: “Dungeon Master” “A guy that just sent in a 8.5×11? photo of him standing next to a limousine. No explanation given.” “An applicant listed “sarcasm” as a hobby/skill/interest. He got the job… One of the best employees I’ve ever had.” “My biggest hobby is dishwashing” “I have had experience in logic programming, basic software creation, bear wrestling, and am fluent in C++.” “I was handed a CV which said ‘one of the UK’s top mountaineers praised my stamina'” “He lists one of his qualifications as fluent in English with 20 years of experience… he lists his age as 19.” “Guy wrote his entire resume and application IN RHYME.” “I enjoy doing repetitive things like filing and photocopying” Job Experience: Hymen Checker on Australian Sheep Farm. “When I asked him about it he said he just wanted to see if people actually read his resume.” Wage desired: “menemum” “I once received a resume that discussed, in great detail, a car accident the candidate had been in. It even included a diagram that showed where each passenger had been sitting.” “A mom came in with her son to fill out a job application. She turned it in for him as well as filled in everything for him. Under the “Other” portion she wrote ‘I am the oldest of three kids so I know how to be in charge.'” “I had a guy apply for a position at my work and on his application in the sex box he put ‘yes please’.” “Being on the cover of 2006 Time Magazine.” (when it was a computer with the word ‘You’ on screen) Interests: “eating, smoking, smoking weed, playing cod.” “Someone handed me a seven page resume, with a title page. Each page had different fonts and margins, and on the fourth page the margin started right in the middle of it. Not to mention that for most of it, she wrote her job experience, pressed enter about 16 times, and then put her next job.” Achievement: Master of Marital Arts (it was a kid) “A dude included his personal website URL, which had rantings about beating women and the elderly.” “Someone applying to my friend’s lab had noted his email was ‘idontstealbeakers@domain.com'” “The guy had an entire section devoted to gaming achievements. Where a normal person might have “Volunteer Experience” or something of that nature, he had “Gaming achievements”. Everything from WoW guild to Tetris High scores.” “Had a friend interviewing for a graphic arts position. One of the pieces in the interviewee’s portfolio, was actually one of the interviewers’ old projects.” (Ouch!) “One day a young man came in and dropped off his resume. Apparently, he was a rapper and a skateboarder. On his resume, he had listed: Hobbies- Raping and scating.” “I also had someone upload a resume to our HRIS database. When I opened the file, it was just a camera phone self-shot of himself staring into his bathroom mirror.” “Applicant didn’t include any contact information, other than a Twitter account.” “An applicant for an internship in my office concluded his cover letter with ‘And that’s why I would make a great addition to the Burger King family.'” Skills: “Can make perfect velociraptor call.” “Had someone put on their resume they were able to cook minute rice in 58 seconds. I laughed because I’ve seen this on the internet dozens of times and knew that’s where he got it from.” “I was once asked if I had any unique skills. Instead of saying I apprenticed as a locksmith for a summer, ‘I’m really good at picking locks.’ Did not get that job.” Best followup comment: “Well you’re still going to get in anyway.” ” I knew a girl who ended up in a relatively popular viral video that was pretty embarrasing. I proofread her resume and noticed she put it on it.” “Someone writing the entire résumé without a single capital letter.” “cleaned up after every shift” ( …but without the ‘f’) “Visa to work in the US?” Applicant wrote “no, Mastercard.” Applicant listed the address of each company she worked for but none of their names. “I always staple at exactly a 45 º angle.” “A 17 year old kid who applied for a camera operator job and had multiple pages on his resume listing all the DVD commentaries that he’d listened to.” “On two separate occasions people have come into my office, handed the receptionist their resumes and asked for her to make a copy because it was their ‘last one.'” “interviewed a young mechanical engineer major who listed training her cat to use the toilet as an achievement” “a guy put his P90x certification under certifications on an IT resume” “At the end of every line he would write either a superscript plus or a superscript minus.” “First thing on this guy’s job history was ‘World Class Amigo'” “I don’t need maternity leave like a woman. I don’t go shopping on my lunch breaks like a woman. I don’t have mood swings once a month like a woman. I don’t gossip about people like a woman.” On a cover letter : “I had a dream last night, and GOD told me that I will get this job, and this is what is right for me” “Speaking in English was listed as a hobby.” “He had no college education, so in the space on the application for college and on his resume he put the Latin for “no college education.” It sounded very fancy and prestigious in Latin, so he got the job.” “He took the advice of fitting your resume on one page a little too seriously. It started at size 14 font and worked its way down to a size 8 at the bottom like an optometrist chart. Just a huge block of unreadable text.” “One guy went on length about how he helped build the international space station as an intern. Did he mean helped in it? No, he claimed to literally be on the floor while the pieces were being manufactured and was sent to various countries to oversee the process… all during a summer internship.” “Please do not call my last employer as a referenceâ€"he was the owner of the small company I worked for, and I was involved with him. His wife learned of this. I was fired to save his marriage, and he will not give a fair recommendation. Please feel free to contact [an employment 6 years prior before being unemployed for 4 years].” “I was working at Staples at the time and someone dropped off a resume at the front. Glancing at it, near the top of the resume it said, ‘I would be very grateful for an opportunity to work in your store. If I could choose any department to work in, it would be deli.'” “My father worked in management at large power plant construction projects. He once received a 15 page resume. It contained diagrams of equipment the applicant had used and diagrams of equipment he has seen in use. All the diagrams had their components labeled, using names that he made up since he did not know most of the correct terms.” “I put ‘buffalo enthusiast’ figuring nobody ever reads my hobbies sections. First question in my last interview, ‘what is a buffalo enthusiast’?” “Years ago I was a manager at a telemarketing office. A mid-40’s woman came in with a resume that had been made with pencil crayons. It had flowers and rainbows drawn on it. Every other letter was done in different colours. Needless to say she is now in management.” Skills: Magic the Gathering “Corporate relations director at his fraternity” “A guy had put down that he could pull off a 95% world record pace at jumping jacks.” evalOne graphic designer candidate’s portfolio was was filled with projects done at her last job, by other people. “On his resume was a huge picture of his face. It took up at least 40% of the page. Under his face were his credentials in what must have been at least 8pt font size.” “’10 years Java experience’… In 2002.” (Java was launched in 1995) Under his computer skills section: Tiger Woods Golf “Applicant for retail management job put on his résumé he won a medal in Taekwondo in the 1988 Olympics. A quick Internet search revealed that he did not.” “a woman left a resume with her head shot on the back and one of her skills was ‘riding a bicycle’.” “My manager handed around a resume that someone had submitted where it was painfully obvious that the applicant had looked up every other word in a thesaurus and chose the longest potential synonym he could find.” “I had two guys apply for laborer/operator positions, they sent one email with both of their contact information and resumes attached. The resumes were identical, except for the names. “ Last job: owned own business. Reason left: fired. “a resume that included a picture in the upper left hand corner of the applicant. The applicant was sitting on her bed in umbros, eating a sandwich.” “This girl emailed me her resume with the name Addison Sheffield, I replied that is a great name and I love the Cubs and she was like, oh, actually my name’s Caroline but I do that to get more resume looks.” (Addison Sheffield are two of the streets bordering Wrigley Field in Chicago) Why do you want to work with us? “2 get dat $$$.” “Not a child molester.” Skills: “Yeah I got ’em” Main skills: creativity, bravery, arrogance, cleverness and honesty. Special skills: “good with money, good working alone.” Reason for leaving last job: “fired for stealing.” “Detail-orientad” Career achievements: “having an Asian girlfriend” “this guy sent his resume to where I work… He attached a photo of himself posing in a tiny bathing suit holding a puppy.” Accomplishments: “I am a bomb expert” (foreigner applying for an engineering job in the US) “Someone applied to our startup with our company in his resume. Apparently he was telling other employers that he worked here and forgot to take it off.” “a kid wrote under Accomplishments: his mother had once interviewed famous serial killers.” “Can summon sea creatures within 15 feet of water (boiling or room temperature).” Under skills: “Walking â€" I am very good at this.” “I had a lady apply for a sales rep position and the first line in her resume was a career objective that stated that she wanted a career in nursing.” “guy had every line in his resume underlined” Under “areas of expertise”: “reliance on god for optimal results.” Under skills and accomplishments for a hotel accounting job applicant. “Over 3,000 cremations in 4 years.” “invented Gmail before Google.” Reason for leaving: “Husband was boss, left me for waitress.” Under the “Experience” section: Sexual Assault Advocate. “I want to be an astroaught but think working in a call center will help me gain confidence in talking to mission control from space” References: “God” Hobby: “petting my dog” Traits: “good looking” “One resume at my work replaced the entire cover letter with a stock photo of a sunset.” “A copywriter called us and asked if we had an FTP to upload her resume to because her cover letter wasn’t attaching to email correctly…. It was an MP3 of her reading her cover letter.” Strengths: “Really good at Lego” Weaknesses: “Bullets” “Fluent in Ebonics” Other Qualifications: “Have only missed 3 child support payments.” “A 398-page resume with links to an African man’s musings on life and how Gold Eagles have secret powers to save us.” Others A young woman wrote her resume in black marker on her bare back and sent a picture of it (Dana Leavy-Detrick) “He proudly presented a worn index card written in dull pencil to represent what I was to accept as his resume. Only the front of the card was filled.” (HRMorning) Candidate sent his resume in the form of an oversize Rubik’s Cube, where you had to push the tiles around to align the resume. (He was hired!) (Jobs.aol.com) “I’m the best in the world at: Reading Comprehension” (Buzzfeed) “I’m the best in the world at: Chivalry” (Buzzfeed) “I can do 75 push ups in a row” (For an IT job â€" and he got hired!) (AskReddit) JobMob Top 10 Candidate’s cover letter talked about her family being in the mob. (CareerBuilder.ca) “If there was one word to describe me it would be ‘Da-bomb’.” (HuffPost) Under hobbies/interests: “Simulating earthquake by shaking table” (AskReddit) “I’m a natural winner. Before I was even born I won a competition against millions of fellow spermatozoids…” (AskReddit) “My English fluent.” (AskReddit) Applicant listed experience as a “Cock, Food Prep/Pizza Maker” (HuffPost) Candidate claimed to be able to speak “Antartican” when applying for a job to work in Antarctica. (CareerBuilder.com) “I promise to make your store 10000000000000000000000000000000000 dollars” (HuffPost) Have you ever been convicted of a felony? “Not yet” Reason for leaving last job: “Mexico” Bonus From ABCNews:eval “I was looking for a job, and I wanted to learn Microsoft Word on the computer. So I was messing around with it one day, and my husband at the time was in the room, arguing with me. So I wrote “Fâ€" YOU” really big in different colors and fonts, playing around, learning [the program]. I saved it under ‘doc1.’ “A couple of days later, I completed my resume on Word and saved it as “res1.” Well, I was talking to this woman about a job, and we hit it off. She said to send my resume, so I did. A day later she wrote back, “Same to you.” I didn’t know what that meant until I opened the attachment I sent her and realized I sent her ‘doc1’ instead of ‘res1.'”eval READ NEXT: Our original classic, 150 Funniest Resume Mistakes, Bloopers and Blunders Ever

5 Hiring Laws You Need To Know If You Run a Business - Classy Career Girl

5 Hiring Laws You Need To Know If You Run a Business When you first start a business, you take imperfect action and often you have no idea what you are doing. You have to move quickly and get your business idea up and running. But, as your business grows you quickly realize you cannot possibly do everything yourself. You must start building your team. But, if you don’t get the knowledge you need about business laws in your state, you could make some costly mistakes. Over the last few years, our business has had some pretty massive growth. We’ve gone from a little hobby blog I wrote on the side of my day job to a company impacting millions of women each month.  I started needing more help to reach my vision so I decided to start building a team. Going through the hiring process made me realize that there is so much I don’t know about hiring and recruiting. It was often easy for me to let my lack of knowledge hold me back, too. As I started to scale and grow my business, here are some questions I faced. -How will I find the right candidates? -Should I get interns and what sort of tasks should I give them? -Are the people that work for me independent contractors or employees? -My team is all virtual. Are there certain things I need to do to protect myself and our business when leading a virtual team? -How do I create a job description and what do I include/not include? -How do I conduct an interview and what questions should I ask/not ask? It’s overwhelming right? Over the last year, I’ve really tried to expand my knowledge in the recruiting area because I know growing Team CCG is crucial to our long-term success. That’s why I was excited when CalChamber reached out with an opportunity to become a member of HRCalifornia.com so I could dive in and learn everything I needed to know. HRCalifornia.com is the most trusted California labor law compliance site. The site offers experienced HR advisers at the Labor Law Helpline to provide answers to your complicated questions and a large resource of checklists and forms that business owners can use to navigate every human resource question you may have. The site also has a QA section that provides answers to the most frequently asked questions. Try HRCalifornia for free, no obligation or credit card required. You all know I love to learn right? The truth is that they asked me to write a sponsored post for them. Here it is! But, what happened instead is that I spent hours combing the site and soaking up everything I could about what to do and what not to do when hiring. I have never seen more HR information in easily understood language with case studies, examples and answers to frequently asked questions available. Many of the topics on the site were issues that I have been concerned about for a long time. As I read through the site everything finally started to make sense and I started to stress less about some of the decisions I needed to make internally. I hope you take this time to get educated. Running a business is not easy and it’s hard to make time to learn, especially when it comes to legal aspects because it can be scary, right? The truth is, it’s so important and putting the time in NOW can really help you avoid costly mistakes in the future. As I was researching and writing this post, I kept emailing my Chief Operating Officer and telling him all the things we needed to do and change for our internal HR processes. I can’t wait to make some of the changes happen internally on our team and I also am excited for you because you get to see what I am learning as well. Today I’m excited to share with you the five hiring laws that are important for business owners. HRCalifornia.com has a ton of information that I could share with you but I picked these 5 topics because they are the ones that I have had to deal with as I’ve grown Classy Career Girl. These are also the five questions that I get asked most when it comes to building a team and the laws around it. 5 Hiring Laws You Need To Know If You Run a Business Note: The information below was all found on HRCalifornia.com.  I am not a lawyer and this is an educational article, not legal advice. 1. The Legal Requirements For Hiring Interns Don’t have money to pay for an employee and think you can get an intern to do free work for you instead? Wrong! When I first started hiring interns I had no idea of The Primary Beneficiary Test. There are a few simple questions that you ask yourself to determine if someone working for you can be an intern. You can take the test here. I did a lot of internships in college and I have loved offering internships at Classy Career Girl in the past. I love giving back to students and training them in all the different areas of Classy Career Girl. But, it’s not easy to have interns. You have a responsibility to “provide training that would be similar to that which would be given in an educational environment.” I’m a former professor and what I love to do is teach! But, if you want to hand over a bunch of tasks you think you can get done for free by an intern, you are mistaken. It’s just not that simple. This is why its so important to know the laws and in this case, you’ll want to learn about the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) before you hire your next intern. 2. The Difference Between an Independent Contractor and an Employee California labor law defines an independent contractor as “any person who renders service for a specified recompense for a specified result, under the control of his principal as to the result of his work only and not as to the means by which such result is accomplished.” You might think it’s easier to make hires as independent contractors because then you won’t have legal obligations like wage and hour requirements. But, an independent contractor is responsible for only his/her own work, his/her own schedule and must also be responsible for how work is completed. Mislabeling a worker as an independent contractor creates potential liability for employment taxes and penalties, and liability for failure to fulfill the many legal obligations owed to an employee, such as wage and hour requirements. For your own protection, make sure that a person working as an independent contractor truly meets the numerous tests required by law. You can learn more about the differences between an independent contractor and employee in the State of California here. 3. Asking Candidates Appropriate Questions During Interviews Back in my prior corporate consulting career, I often sat in during hiring interviews to make decisions on who would be the best fit for our team. I had no idea some of these laws existed years ago when I was hiring and each year more laws are added that make hiring decisions fairer to applicants. This means it’s a really important topic for business owners. As I reviewed the HRCalifornia.com website, I realized that this topic could be an article in itself. I will just highlight some of the most important things I believe you need to know but please do your own research!!  Take advantage of your own free trial to this educational site, and learn for yourself what you need to know about hiring. Some important rules you need to know in 2018: -Do not ask questions about marital status or children. For example, you cannot ask a candidate if she is pregnant, has children or is planning to have children. -Be careful when asking about hobbies or outside activities. -Dont ask about prior salary history, including compensation or benefits. California law prohibits employers from asking about salary history, and from relying on salary history to make hiring decisions or determine how much to pay an employee. Did you know that there are even laws today that protect the social media accounts of job applicants? Don’t ever ask the candidate to access their personal media account in front of you during the job interview or ask them to divulge any personal social media to you. 4. Asking Appropriate Questions on Job Advertisements and Job Descriptions Truth: I held off hiring for many months because I didn’t know how to create a job description. I discovered that it’s not that hard. Once you do your first job description, it gets so much easier after that because then you have a template to model. Posting a job advertisement and creating a job description is often the first step to hiring and building your team so you aren’t doing everything yourself. It’s important you understand there are questions you cannot ask applicants to complete on the job advertisement. Here are some questions you can never ask a job candidate: -Are you a U.S. citizen? -Is that a Jewish (or Chinese, Irish, French, etc.) name? -In what country were you born? -Do you have your own car? -Do you have or plan to have children? -What does your spouse do for a living? -Are you married? -Do you have a disability that might interfere with this job? -When did you graduate from high school? -What do you make where you work now (or what did you make at any prior job)? I was also surprised to learn that I have been making a mistake. According to HRCalifornia.com, you may be tempted to write on the candidate’s application and/or resume or in a separate notebook as you talk to the candidate. Unless you take complete, legible notes that are not open to any misinterpretation and are in no way discriminatory, don’t do it. Upon close examination, notations taken during an interview can subject you to discrimination claims. 5. Creating Your Policy For Remote Workers/Telecommuters Many business owners I work with have virtual teams so this is a really important topic to share. It’s so easy with technology today to have the flexibility to work remotely. There are things you need to do to ensure that the employment relationship runs smoothly and you avoid litigation. A very important thing to have in your company is a telecommuting policy. Here are some things you’ll want to include in the policy: -The criteria for assessing whether an employee can work remotely. -The manner in which home office expenses and expenses for travel and parking at the company will be handled. -The logistics for supporting telecommuters needs, such as support staff, office supplies and equipment. -Which meetings will require physical attendance by telecommuters and which can be managed by phone or over the Internet. -How expenses for moving company equipment will be managed if the telecommuter moves. -How the termination of telecommuters will be managed, especially the return of company equipment and payment of final wages. I hope this article has helped you determine the knowledge you might need to get to avoid costly issues.  There is so much information that most business owners don’t know. I hope this post encourages you to start the learning process and not let your lack of knowledge hold you back from hiring. You’ll quickly learn that you absolutely must grow your team to achieve your vision. Try HRCalifornia for free, no obligation or credit card required so you can avoid costly mistakes and fines. There are new employment laws 2019 that you will definitely want to be ready for. At Classy Career Girl, we are currently members of HRCalifornia so we can ensure our entire team is up to date on new HR laws as our company continues growing and hiring more in 2019. Note: This is a sponsored article written by me on behalf of CalChamber.

Golden Handcuffs Keeping You From Your DREAM Job - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Golden Handcuffs Keeping You From Your DREAM Job - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career YOU HAVE A GOOD JOB WITH A GOOD COMPANY, A JOB YOU HAVE HELD FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS NOW. Your job title puts you squarely and firmly in the ranks of “middle management.” Your annual salary is one that many others can only wish they earned. Just one problem, though. You have come to despise your job! You cringe at the thought of trudging off to the job each and every business day. You have chosen, however, to exercise “good sense” and continue to labor on in “stable misery.” What’s the matter with me?! you’ve probably asked yourself more than a few times and with increasing frequency. Have I lost my mind?! Actually, probably not. You might be surprised to learn that you’re certainly not alone. Millions of other men and women currently find themselves in a similar situation, but they, perhaps like you, are hesitant to do anything to change their situation. They are afraid to even  think about making a career change at this point! Welcome to the wonderful world of the “golden handcuffs” job! ‘GOLDEN HANDCUFFS JOB DEFINED A “golden handcuffs” job usually is defined as one that is characterized by a honest belief and total conviction that you . . . Now earn too much money to even consider making a move that could enrich your life and your career. Have too much seniority to chuck it all and move to a brand-new position in a brand-new company, where you will be “starting all over.” Have grave doubts that you could ever match, let alone exceed, what you now have in your current job by moving to another company. And you know what? You may actually be right? But what if you are wrong? If you have positioned/branded yourself, or can position/brand yourself, as being among the TOP candidates in today’s expanding, broadly improving job market, you very definitely  could be wrong. Of course, if you don’t take the time and make the effort to explore possible new career opportunities, you’ll never know, will you? Plusâ€"and this is a  very significant consideration!â€"just because you feel you have too much invested in your current company to even consider testing the career waters doesn’t mean your  company shares that opinion. (More about that at the bottom of this post). WHATS DRIVING YOUR DISSATISFACTION? There are many reasons people become dissatisfied with a current position, no matter how ostensibly rewarding that position may be, or appear to be. Among those reasons may be the following: Your job has become boring, redundant and largely unfulfilling andunrewarding. You find that you are simply going through the motions each and every day, neither progressing nor regressing in your career path. There is every indication that your career has definitely plateaued, i.e., it simply has “stalled.” You feel that your company, and your bosses, take you and your contributions for granted, and have for some time now. You believe you have considerably more to offer your career and profession than you’re likely to be allowed to demonstrate to your current bosses/employer. Not only are you not getting the respect you deserve at your current job, sometimes you are even being shown disrespect. You’ve long given up on any expectation of achieving “more” in your current position. In fact, all you really expect at this point is just more of the same. ‘HANDCUFFS ONLY ON YOU, NOT COMPANY It’s very understandable and very human to honesty believe that, when you have a job where you are well compensated, or perhaps even very well compensated, enjoy considerable seniority and great benefits, that you should not even consider  other career opportunities, no matter how dissatisfied you may have become with that job. It’s easy to see how you could indeed believe you are shackled by “golden handcuffs.” There is one MAJOR problem with this attitude, this belief, however. If the Great Recession taught us nothing, it certainly taught us how cyclical, and how very, very fickle, the job market can be and quite often is. Millions of men and women in the U.S. and worldwide who thought they had become “indispensable” to their companies suddenly, and oftentimes quite unexpectedly, found out they weren’t! Those “golden handcuffs” fit only the wrists of the employees, not of the companies that employed them! WHO WILL TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR  CAREER, DESTINY? Most people don’t readily embrace change because it’s often frightening, often too replete with a high degree of uncertainty and unpredictability. Again, that’s very human and very understandable. But, if you don’t take charge of your own career, your own destiny, guess who will glad to do that for you, if it becomes necessary and expedient? The company that currently employs you, if things again turn south in the economy and job market, that’s who! No hiring professional, including me, of course, would ever advise you to create unnecessary or ill-advised turmoil and chaos if you are in an established career path that holds the genuine promise of continued growth and job fulfillment. That said, though, you should nonetheless always keep your eye firmly on the continual  management and development of your own career. SHED GOLDEN HANDCUFFS, REACH FOR GOLDEN RING Don’t let anything, including “golden handcuffs,” lull you into any false sense of security where your career is concerned. In the final analysis, your career, your destiny, is really under the total control of just one person, and that is YOU! Few things of importance in this life remain forever static, and that certainly includes the job market and your place in it. If you now find yourself in a job that stopped being fulfilling long ago, but you also think you are irrevocably tied to it and the company that employs you because of “golden handcuffs,” then I strongly advise you to shed them, and instead start reaching for the “golden ring”â€"your DREAM job! ______________________________________ This post is based on career management information and advice featured in  Career Stalled? How to Get YOUR Career Back in HIGH Gear and Land the Job You Deserveâ€"Your DREAM Job!, professional headhunter and bestselling job-hunting book author  Skip Freeman’s  NEW book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets Series of Career Development Management Publications. ______________________________________ Would you like to receive a FREE  evaluation copy (PDF format featuring entire  book content) of  Career Stalled? via email? Email the editor and co-author, Michael Garee, at mlgaree@att.net. (Copy paste email address into your email client.)  By requesting the evaluation copy, you agree to write and publish a timely,  honest  review of the book on Amazon.com. ______________________________________ Going on a job interview soon? Know someone who is?  Check out Skips  How to ACE the Job Interview!  Kindle publication on Amazon.com.

The 10 Oddest Job Interview Questions Asked in 2011

The 10 Oddest Job Interview Questions Asked in 2011 In  Glassdoor‘s annual review of the  top 25 oddball questions, asked  at job interviews in 2011, tech companies feature highly. Although there’s just one question from Google on the list, the  Wall Street Journal  recently profiled the search giant’s interview process, highlighting the trademark strangeness of some of the questions. Oddest Interview Questions Mashable reports  The “oddball question,” of course, is meant to challenge the job candidate to think on his or her feet. It forces the interviewee to reach beyond prepared remarks and start engaging in problem solving on the spot. The best “weird” questions still have some relation to the kind of work the position entails. (For example, questions about finding the correct sequence could relate to jobs involving organizational systems.) 1. “How many people are using Facebook in San Francisco at 2:30pm on a Friday?” â€"  Asked at  Google. 2. “If Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?” â€"  Asked at  Hewlett-Packard. 3. “What do you think of garden gnomes?” â€"  Asked at  Trader Joe’s. 4. “Would Mahatma Gandhi have made a good software engineer?” â€"  Asked at  Deloitte. 5. “How would you cure world hunger?” â€"  Asked at  Amazon.com. 6. “Does life fascinate you?” â€"  Asked at  Ernst Young. 7. “Name 5 uses of a stapler without staple pins.” â€"  Asked at  EvaluServe. 8. “If you could be a superhero, what power would you possess?” â€"  Asked at  Rain and Hail Insurance. 9. “If you were a Microsoft Office program, which one would you be?” â€"  Asked at  Summit Racing Equipment. 10. “How do you feel about those jokers at Congress?” â€"  Asked at  Consolidated Electrical. Read full list of 25 oddest job interview questions in 2011 on glassdoor.com Subscribe to Career Geeks Bi-monthly Newsletter  to stay up-to-date with careers information and tips tricks. 49

The Best Resume Writing Service

The Best Resume Writing ServiceIt's not really all that easy to find the best resume writing services DC TX. You could walk into one of the numerous resume writing companies that are out there and get a package that is geared towards landing you a job rather than being professional and creating a resume that is well-written and professionally formatted. But for some people, that's exactly what they want, a quick answer that's meant to be written by a person who's been working as a professional in the field of resumes for many years.There are hundreds of different resume writing services available on the internet. You can have a professional write up for you if you know what kind of resume you're looking for, or if you're not sure, how to search for the one that's perfect for you. But is the best resume writing service one that has a team of professionals that you may not have first-hand contact with?For ressurection services, it would probably depend on the type of work that they do and the kind of quality that they offer. Are they top professionals, or are they mid-level, just trying to get a name out there? The best service that I've found for resumes would be a service that focuses on the quality of writing and offers people all kinds of different services from designing, to writing to proofreading and editing. The resume writers will work hard to create the perfect resume.Ressurection services are best for those looking for a free resume writing service and a free approach to looking for a resume. They specialize in very high quality writing, will help you choose the right resume that's right for you and make you feel like you're getting the best of the best - for free.You can get a free resume online, but if you want a resume that will stand out among the rest, it's best to have someone give you a recommendation before you sign up for anything. Resume writing services like DcTX Resumes, can help you create a resume that will impress employers with its prof essionalism and its professional appearance.Getting Ressurection Services from your local region that is better than going online would be a smart move for you. Ressurection services will cost you less and help you get a resume that is impressive and professional without taking you away from your family or taking away your chance to get out of the house and go to work. That can help you get a job.This is one service that you should be going for. Having your resume rewritten, edited, and rewritten over again can be very time consuming. That can be a big hurdle for any person to overcome when you're trying to land a job.With your resume in front of potential employers, it can be a matter of time before you get the job. If your resume gets the job, then that is your one shot to get the job. If your resume doesn't get the job, then it's back to the drawing board to rewrite it and get it done right.

Try to be Scrooge in your job search - Hire Imaging

Try to be Scrooge in your job search - Hire Imaging Generations have enjoyed Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol. For many, it’s a reading or theatrical must-do during the holiday season. I remember seeing Kelsey Grammer’s performance as Scrooge at Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater many, many moons ago. How struck I was with the ease to loathe him â€" at least through most of the story.  And yet, I believe you should be Scrooge-like in your job search, your career management â€" your life, come to think of it. The real Scrooge effect Forget that Ebenezer Scrooge is, as we meet him, the original Grinch. He hates the Christmas holiday season and all it stands for, including the extra expressions of humanity in conversations, the tone that brings out the giving back and good will. As he’s visited by the three spirits, we begin to understand him. We even are touched with a bit of sympathy for the old man as he mourns the innocence of his past, feels stuck in a discontented present, and has no hope for a happy future. Isn’t this really a story about personal introspection and transformation? Don’t we all have a story? Don’t we all have baggage â€" the ghost of Jacob Marley wrapped in chains that weigh us down if we let them?  Don’t we all have success stories to share? Positive traits that when put together with our stories, create our own unique value? Scrooge was not always bitter, preoccupied and rigid with his coin-counting and self-ostracizing routine and behavior. He had been young, filled with idealism for the future. What happened? Life happened. The power of honest assessment Ebenezer Scrooge was lucky. Three spirits gave him the unique opportunity to gaze at his past (where he came from), his present (where he was currently) and his potential future (where he was headed given no change). The result? Scrooge made changes. It wasn’t comfortable. He had to look hard and honestly about his choices, his relationships and his path. The power of agility How can you move forward in a career or life without change? None of us can. You can keep doing the same things with the same results. Or you can plan and most importantly, brace for the unanticipated. How? By adopting an observant, alert and swift responsiveness to the need to change. There will always be something that bursts your bubble, roadblocks your plans and in some cases, spins your whole course around. And sometimes, it derails you for awhile. Again, observe, adjust and reboot. Because sometimes, this change puts you on a great track. There is power in being able to tweak how you think and what you doâ€"to your situation, those people who enter your life, and the curve balls you’re thrown. If you expect all these things to adjust to you, your rigidity attracts disillusionment and frustration. There is power and freedom in expecting the unexpected. Do one thing Here’s an exercise. No otherworldly guide needed! Just envision yourself into the future and imagine what people are likely to say about you after you’re gone. Think of what your epitaph would be. Go a step further and contemplate your written eulogy as a mission statement for what you want to accomplish, what kind of person you strive to be, and how you want to be remembered. I know it’s more dramatic and colorful to think of Ebenezer Scrooge as he scowls, “Bah, humbug.” That’s not how Charles Dickens left him. Nope; he shouts, “Merry Christmas”! Photo: popofatticus

[BOOK REVIEW] Share or Die Voices of the Get Lost Generation in the Age of Crisis - CareerEnlightenment.com

Collaborative consumption or “the sharing economy” is a method of efficiently spreading around scarcer resources and it is dependent on connection and  communication.Since jobs are certainly a scarcity these days Buczynski provides an interesting section on entrepreneurship and work. She suggests using online resources  such as Kickstarter for funding, Skillshare for extra income and affordable skills training, and sites such as coworking wiki, Loosecubes, and Liquidspace  to find coworking space.If You Cant Find Work, Create Your OwnIn the essay Emergent by Design, Venessa Miemis, founder of the popular website Emergent by Design, shares her experience of discovering her professional  purpose. The end result is nontraditional and inspiring.Using online resources accessible to everyone, Miemis has developed a flourishing brand. She started a website to share her ideas about collaboration and  co-creation and a Twitter account to keep track of what others were saying.Pretty soon s he had a strong network of followers and peers. Of this experience she says, This is how the new economy works, where trust can be built in a  networked environment with peers around the planet.Many projects have followed and she says that she regularly uses Skype for meetings and conference calls and has received funding from Kickstarter. She  says, And now here I am…with a career that is emerging from a simple blog and the genuine desire to connect communities and amplify the work of change  agents and mission-driven organizations. Inspiring stuff.Explore the PossibilitiesIf the innovative possibilities of connectedness sound exciting to you, explore this book. It’s loaded with content on the topic. In addition to creative  career development youll find articles on how to start a worker co-op, lead a union strike, self-educate, deal with student loan debt, and navigate family  life while developing a professional life.A revolution is happening and it could greatly change how w e live and work.True to Shareable ideals, a free format of this book is available online at  http://www.shareable.net/blog/share-this-book-the-free-version-of-share-or-dieYou can find the printed version at  amazon.com.Check out shareable.net for even more connection and inspiration.