Crossroads Career Network

Thanksgiving is a great day to announce our 2012 Crossroads Career Workbook “Maximize Your Career.” Thanks be to God for the thousands of volunteers who have served tens of thousands of career explorers – from whom we have learned much about the latest and greatest tips and tools to find jobs, careers and calling. Much [...]

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 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 [...]

An Informational Interview is an interview that you schedule and hold with a person who is currently working or has worked in an industry, company, or career you are considering. The purpose is to gather critical information from an insider’s point of view. We also covered the goals, essential rules of engagement and some sample questions. [...]

Welcome to the new, improved, turbo-charged Crossroads Career website. I am really excited about it. It features not only this blog, but also a prayer wall, the web’s biggest job search engine, our 6-step, 80-page career workbook and more – all fast and free. Why did we do this? To make it simpler, easier and faster [...]