Are You ‘Red Velvet Rope’ Ready?
Vicki Aubin
September 23, 2014
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It's National Update Your Resume Month! If your job applications are constantly falling into the resume black hole time and time again...and if you've been putting off that planned career transition you've been talking about ALL YEAR (and sitting in a toxic job that you despise) because you "...need to update my resume!", [...]
3 Reasons Your LinkedIn Profile STINKS (and What to Do About It)
Vicki Aubin
October 23, 2013
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You FINALLY decide to set up a LinkedIn account. You quickly fill out a few sections of your Profile, search for a few of your friends and send them Connection Requests, and apply for a few random jobs that look interesting. You sit back for a moment and glance at [...]
Award-Winning Career ‘Advice’ from Justin Timberlake
Vicki Aubin
August 26, 2013
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USUALLY at the MTV Video Music Awards each year, SOME artist attempts to out-shock something another artist did the year prior (a truly bizarre/awesome/horrific stage outfit, excessively foul language, a (surprise!) mega-star vocal duo, etc.) and THAT’s always the ‘water cooler talk’ the next day across social media, at the [...]
The 5 Most Powerful Things you Can Do on LinkedIn You Never Knew
Vicki Aubin
April 30, 2013
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Do you see LinkedIn as mainly “a place to keep my online resume”….or maybe “connect with some professional colleagues and acquaintances I already know from time to time,” because you think, “there’s such a buzz on LinkedIn, and everyone else I know is on there…so I guess I should be, [...]
The Top 5 Traits of a Rockstar Interviewee (What Your Resume Can’t Do)
Vicki Aubin
April 5, 2013
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Last weekend, I participated in a cultural festival in my neighborhood with a local dance school at which I'm an instructor. We had organized to do a performance, a brief dance lesson and host a booth, with the hopes of attracting a few new students to register for classes. The [...]