Does Your Resume Lack Vision?
You’re just getting over the shock of having become unemployed. You know you need to begin a job search, but you may not know the best way to proceed, or where to start.More than likely, you will dust off your old resume and modify it to include your most recent job experience. Most people search the classifieds and Internet job sites for job openings matching their qualifications. They then submit their resumes to these postings. You will probably do the same with your modified resume.If you follow this routine, you will very likely experience a long and frustrating job search. At the end of this exhausting journey, you will find yourself in a job that doesn’t truly capitalize on your unique gifts or talents, nor compensates you according to your worth. Most job seekers go through this.The job market is especially lean for higher paying positions, yet flooded with good candidates. Your competition is huge and not about to go away. In this climate, mediocrity will not bring you success. You must take a different path. The best place to start is with a vision.What is your vision for yourself? Imagine some of the unique and fulfilling qualities your next job can have. What unique gifts and talents can you bring

Winning Is Not The Only Thing: There Is Always The Need For Customer Service
Winning market share is vital to your company's success. But let me tell you that winning market share is not the only thing, you must also have good customer service in order to keep those customers.Many companies will win market share by using heavy discounting strategies or introducing new products and this is great for them, but in the end the competition will catch up and without great customer service these customers will indeed migrate over to your competition. Once they do this if your competition has great customer service chances are you will not get a second chance.What does this mean to your company? Well it means that customer service is paramount and you need to take a good hard look at how your company is treating its customers. Are you treating them fairly? Are you giving them what they want and are they coming back for more. And if they are how often and why are they coming back, what little things are making the difference for this decision of theirs?Customer Service sounds easy, but it is not. Great customer service is what we all want and you customer wants it too, very badly in fact. You need to get your company in the great customer service category and to do this it might take a little outside help from

In Control - Inside Tips on Interview Success
No, you can’t control how the interview will be conducted, nor can you control the outcome. But you can influence it greatly by the way you present your personality and your skills.Part of acing an interview, is preparation. Do your homework on the company you’re applying to. Read their stock performance if they’re listed. Surf for their web site, and be sure to read the About Us page as well as any news or press releases. Check out any trade-related publications, or annual reports. Being able to comment knowledgeably on subjects the recruiter may bring up, is a plus on your side.Dress to impress, but not to blind them with your fashion statement. If you have submitted an application in person, and have some idea of what the company staff wears, then pick a middle of the road outfit between any extremes you may have noted. Understated is always better.Before you leave home, make sure you have copies of your resume, letters of reference, and work samples if applicable. Taking more than you anticipate needing, provides a cushion against surprises, and shows that you know how to prepare for the unexpected.Make sure you’re out the door with time to spare for traffic problems or unforeseen delays. Time is money to a company,

In Marketing to Realtors, Your Listening Skills are the Key to Your Success
Are you trying to stand out in your marketing to Realtors? Why not try addressing one of the most overlooked areas of most business transactions: communication.How often have you had miscommunications with a Realtor? As frustrating and embarrassing as it may be, it’s also an indication of a bigger problem, poor listening skills.There is a lot more to being a good listener than just hearing the person. Good listening is an acquired skill that requires discipline. It is a skill many loan officers have not mastered and an opportunity for you to stand out in the crowd.Most of us have natural defenses that go up when ever we are in a discussion, we listen with maybe half of our brain, while the other half is busy formulating a plan. But with a little practice, you can master the skills to become a great listener, and launch your marketing to Realtors efforts with your unique skill set.Here are some steps that will help you become a better listener:Focus on the message. Do you find yourself jumping in just as the speaker is finishing their point, or interrupting them half way through their point? Good listening means having the patience to hear the person out, all the way throu

Public Relations for Hydrogen Cell and Initiatives
For the continued push for a Hydrogen Economy we must remember that a continual push for public relations will be needed to insure that the initiatives brought forth come to fruition you see? Currently there are many competing innovative technologies to help America breaker addiction to Middle Eastern foreign oil. Perhaps this is good in many ways and yet it favors those technologies, which are already in existence over such technologies as hydrogen cells, which may in the end be better.There seems to be a good public relations campaign at the federal government level as well as presidential initiatives to promote hydrogen cell technologies in the United States of America and this is very good, but it may not be enough. There are many very great hydrogen cell companies and startups, which have made quite a bit of progress.Unfortunately, many of them have lost the public relations edge and yet they need to stay in the minds of the venture capitalists and investor investing public. Public relations for hydrogen cell and hydrogen initiatives need to increase in order to reach the synergy with the American public that is needed to push hydrogen cell use as commonplace.With proper public-relations hydrogen cell and hydrogen techn

Leading Change - Be Careful What You Push For
"When two trains are approaching each other at a crossing, they shall both come to a full stop, and neither shall start up again until the other has gone." That is a quote from actual railway law some years ago. We all know with what authority these bureaucracies are built. You will not succeed doing it this way.If you're trying to lead change in an organization overflowing with bureaucracy you'd better get ready for some fights. In one company where we worked to drive a big change project, the bad guys running the bureaucracy came bubbling out of the woodwork like a gusher of bad crude.It was the end of the quarter and the changes we were working on were far from complete. They weren’t even scheduled for completion for another nine months but that didn’t stop the head of manufacturing from driving sales orders straight out the back door whether the product was ready or not. Never mind the fact the handhelds we were working on didn’t pass the motherboard burn in tests, they overheated. In some cases, the heat was actually causing damage to the plastic case they were housed in. It was bad.In spite of the dogs of bureaucracy nipping at his heals the head of quality was sticking to his guns. That is until the manufacturing manage