by John G. Self | Aug 29, 2017 | Career Management, Resume
I am not a big fan of resume templates for executives. The disadvantages far outweigh any benefits, based on my observations during more than 20 years of executive search experience. Most of the ones I have reviewed are simply mediocre. Since the resume is a job...
by John G. Self | Jun 8, 2017 | Career Management, Resume
Who will speak for you? When I was a police reporter/crime writer for The Houston Post in the early 70s, homicide detectives took pride in their work by saying they spoke for the dead. In the business development process, the proposal speaks for the company seeking...
by John G. Self | Feb 9, 2017 | Career Management, Resume
It was about 2:30 on a Friday afternoon when Harry noticed several of his colleagues being escorted from their cubicles to…. then there was someone from HR to escort him. They were taken to a meeting where more than four dozen of their colleagues were told that...
by John G. Self | Dec 20, 2016 | Career Management, Resume
“When there is a change in the pace for change in so many realms at once, as we are now experiencing, it is very easy to be overwhelmed by it all.” ~ Thomas L. Friedman, Pulitzer prize columnist, author ~ The pace of change is accelerating across the global...
by John G. Self | Nov 2, 2016 | Career Management, Resume
Since most of us will work for several organizations over the span of a lifetime, which means we will go through several job searches and suffer through many interviews, developing and updating the resume will be a fact of life. So, today let’s spend 8 minutes to...
by John G. Self | Sep 16, 2016 | Career Management, Early Careerists, Military Career Transition, Resume
Today is another difficult, emotionally challenging day in the life of an executive recruiter. We have to eliminate a dozen executive candidates — people with hopes, dreams and, in some cases, the very real need to find a job. From that group of 12 we will...
