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The dream inside you is there for a reason — it sparks something that makes you come alive. Choosing pain today is easier than living with the regret you can never really shake.

Choose Pain in Career Management and in Life Well that doesn’t sound like a very positive, up-lifting title, does it? Considering how common wine-related memes are on the Internet, I’m pretty confident most of our lives are about making choices that help us escape pain, minimize confrontation, and maintain the appearance of control.This past w…

Constructive Criticism Doesn't Belong in a Performance Review There's no such thing as constructive criticism.Accenture made news recently with its announcement to eliminate performance reviews. Companies are now onboard with the idea that this cumbersome, rarely transparent, once-a-year process was a drain on all involved. Worse yet, the results of such revie…

Remarkable Leaders Rarely Have Jobs There’s a difference between doing a job and having a brand.A job is mechanical, generic. With a job, a person is a cog in a system run by others. Someone else brings the employee the opportunity. It’s generally work that anyone with some basic training can do and leaves little room for empowerment.…

When Good is Good Enough I recently read about the Career Advisory Board’s 2014 Job Preparedness Study, which included an assessment of the skills gap that exists at all levels of US employment. In this study, hiring managers said only 7% of jobseekers have the right combination of strengths, skills, and capabilities to fil…

Great Leaders & the Penalty of Success The penalty facing successful and consistently employed professionals is that they may have never before needed to do a full-scale job search. They were the type who was always headhunted. Recruiters jumped at the chance to work with them.Now executives find the job market is different. Social media…

You Have Something to Say Some people LOVE to network. It’s natural to them. These extroverts thrive on meeting new people, traveling to new places, and engaging in storytelling. Communicating with others fills up their energy tanks.Others look at networking as a burden. Or maybe you are just an introvert that deals with peo…

It's family time. That thought itself may conjure up stress. Let it go and take advantage of your family and their network to help you and your career in 2015.

Your Crazy, Messed Up, Well-Meaning Family If you're like me, the next 2 weeks mean a lot of family and friend time. If you’re also like me, you’re probably going to get a lot of questions about your job, maybe your job search, or other topics that you may or may not be excited to talk about.We all hope that family is a safe place, but while…

I'm excited to announce that I graduated from the Resume Writing Academy's, rigorous, advanced certification course. I can now officially call myself an Academy Certified Resume Writer (ACRW).

This program was tough. and set very high standards on how to collaborate with executives, define their personal brands, and write concise, hard-hitting resumes and supporting career documents. I'm thrilled to call myself an ACRW and want to thank Louise and Wendy for setting the bar high for our industry.

Check out my official press release. http://bit.ly/1uNMuLX

Executive Resume Writer Credential: ACRW Kimberly Sernel, CPA, CPRW became a part of an elite class of executive resume writers, earning her Academy Certified Resume Writer certification.

So what's it going to be? Are you coasting at year-end or are you using this time to launch into 2015 with energy?

Which course do you think is the right answer?

Writing the Last Chapter of Your 2014 Story As we close in on the end 2014, I’m looking over the career development goals I set this year. Mine included an investment in the ACRW training course, blogging weekly and writing for a third party

No, I'm not crazy. And no, thankfulness won't come right away. But it will come and you will be better off.

Yes, You Can be Thankful for Job Loss When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. — LaoTao A friend of mine was recently let go after 7 years at her employer. She was surprised, angry, and devastated.Now my

There's no such thing as a perfect resume, but even if you have what you think is one, it's not going mean you are prepared for your job search.

What Your Perfect Resume Won't Do You need to have a career goal and a job search strategy before 1 word is written on your resume.Several times a week I’m introduced to jobseekers that want a new resume. They’ve read the do’s and

is analyzing you all of the time...even as part of your ! Start to understand its implications.

Talent Shortage or Misuse of People Analytics in Hiring? “If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.”— Bill James, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game People analytics aren’t