Crossroads Career Network

I love getting emails from job finders, filled with excitement, accomplishment, relief and hope. I remember after a year of my unemployment, I got hired to give a talk at a business luncheon.  Yes, I worked for food, and I also got paid $500.  Wow!  After a year, I got a check!  I was so [...]

I’ll bet half the people I talk to about their job search or career transition cannot tell me what they are looking for. What I hear is various versions of: “I’ll take anything …” “The only thing I have ever done is …” “What I really love doing is (fill-in-the-blank), but you can’t make any [...]

Twitter: You’ve heard lots of buzz about it. If you’re new to Twitter, you may have even visited the site, created an account, and dabbled with tweeting. But it wasn’t love at first sight, right? If you as a career professional, or your clients, are like most people, you’re not alone in wondering, “What’s the [...]

I have read – I mean looked at – over 25,000 resumes in my career of recruiting, corporate HR and career development. Over the course of my career, I’ve discovered THE 6 tips to writing resumes that get results. Resume Writing Tip #1: Feature Results in Your Resume Most recruiters believe that past performance is the best indicator [...]

If you have been following the steps outlined in this series, then you have completed steps one through three: every day you have chosen to have a good attitude, you have inventoried your unique skills and accomplishments, you have identified your target companies, and you developed and polished your marketing materials. You are now ready [...]

In my first posting on using LinkedIn.com as part of your job search toolset, I focused on helping you get your profile started. Since writing LinkedIn 101, I have received several comments from friends and strangers on how to improve your professional presence on the web. Most of the responses were about enhanced uses of [...]

What’s love got to do with it? Everything! Don’t get me wrong. Knowing the principles of the 6 steps of career crossings – attitude, aptitude, altitude, searching, sorting, selecting – serves as a critical foundation to finding jobs, careers, calling. Learning the best practices of career aptitude testing, writing resumes, job searching online, networking for personal [...]

Hooray! You find a great-for-you job online. Now, how do you hook and reel it in? Here’s what you don’t do. Immediately click ‘Apply.’ Fill out form. Attach or paste your resume. Then you wait, and wait, and wait, and… well, you get the idea. Instead, try these 3 job-landing tips: Job-Landing Tip #1: Do your [...]

If you make more money FOR your employer or customer, then you will make more money FROM your employer or customer. There are 3 strategies to make-more-money success: Be an Expert, Be in Management, Be in Sales. Be an Expert “Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he [...]

Are you ready to move forward with your job search? Let’s check because you do not want to update your resume or begin the search until you have successfully completed the first three steps. Step 1 is Attitude: Attitude is the most important step. Conduct an honest attitude check. If you have given yourself time to [...]