I’ve been giving a lot of thought to stories these days. Earlier in my life, I wrote a lot of fiction. I became very adept at creating characters from scratch and then, during the rewrite phase, changing key aspects of their personalities and lives. Now that I am a professional writer of resumes and bios, it [...]
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How many times do you think Denis Leary was told his dreams were too big? How many agents didn’t want to rep him, how many clubs didn’t want to book him? How many friends told him to maybe try something else? How many empty rooms he did stand-up in, how many hecklers he endured? How many pitch [...]
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My almost 18-month-old son, Ben, is obsessed with pushing things around. Anything that is on wheels that he can get behind, he’s all over it. He has two techniques that he uses. The first one involves getting going as fast as he can for as long as he can until he crashes into something and [...]
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I spent about an hour and a half on a conference call last week for a woman who was trying to decide whether to keep her web-based business open, transform it into something else, or close it altogether and move on. The call had been put together by a blogger/social networking consultant/operator of successful web-based [...]
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Get a notebook and pen out. We’re going to have a little fun. FUN, remember– you don’t have to actually DO anything about what you write. Just give me 45 minutes and your imagination. In the last post, I wrote about women who had changed their careers in order to make more money. They [...]
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Continuing this week’s theme of addressing the compensation piece of the career pie, today’s topic is changing careers in order to make more money. There are certain jobs you do because there are intangible payoffs (helping others, self-expression, etc.), not for the money. Some people choose to become teachers, social workers, or bar band musicians because of these non-monetary rewards. There are a lot [...]
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I'm Jenny Yerrick Martin, a veteran hiring executive, career consultant and strategist, expert resume, bio, and web content writer, and the creator of entertainment career site, YourIndustryInsider.com.
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