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By Audrey Field, PR & Marketing Advisor While this article focuses on strategies for a powerful presence and resume assessments at Career Fairs, many of these recommendations are worthwhile in any situation where you are manning a booth to promote your product or service. Career fairs are a purely marketing initiative. We all need to market our businesses occasionally. Take the day off and enjoy what you’re doing. Don’t worry about the mound of work on your desk. Enjoy hanging out in a new place with new people. As with…
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds. ~Abraham Lincoln CPC is proud to acknowledge the following individuals for being such an important part of this community. New Members: Charles Fraser Lee Weisser Renewing Members: Lidia Siino Catherine LeBrun Krysti Roehler Goldie Penner Newly Certified Members: Conny Lee, CRS Carole Marinier, CRS Ivan Podiman, CRS
Don Orlando, MBA, CPRW, JCTC, CCM, CCMC If you are a regular subscriber to professional organizations’ e-lists, you may have read comments that describe job fairs as “…a waste of time and money….” It doesn’t have to be that way. I’ll suggest why you might want to support job fairs (you’ve already seen a powerful hint in the title) and how you prepare for, conduct, and leverage these events to put clients on your calendar, money in your pocket, and something back to your community. Everything you read here is…
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. ~George Bernard Shaw CPC is proud to acknowledge the following individuals for being such an important part of this community. Newly Certified: Jillian Ricketts, CRS Marsha Nelson, CRS Lucy Sun, CRS Alireza Kia, CRS Hassan Abtidon, CRS
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. ~H.E. Luccock CPC is proud to acknowledge the following individuals for being such an important part of this community. New Members: Louisa Ielo Linda Dupuis-Pépin Ivan Podiman Lydia Fernandes Mitri Hanna Renewing Members: Susan Easton Marlene Slawson Newly Certified: Acer Ashashimi, CRS Leroy Murphy, CRS
We have all seen those ads for certified résumé writers placed by ResumeEdge.com, CareerPerfect.com, and other online résumé writing firms. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work for one of these firms? There are many such résumé writing firms proliferating on the internet, but I limited my comparison to a selection of firms that are affiliated with industry résumé writing associations. These companies include: CareerPerfect.com, ResumeWriters.com, ResumeEdge.com, RealGoodResume.com, and e-resume.net. Not only do we have fellow members from these firms, but possibly those among us work…