KCSpeaks

  This year has come and gone. Time flies when you are blogging. As you set to close out your year and take stock of the year past, let me give you the recap of some of the most popular posts based on page views. §   Résumé Review Like a Pro - reminds you that no matter how great the résumé is, the marker of a truly great one is how many interviews you get based on the information on it. Even if it is not pretty, it doesn’t matter if it works! (March 2013) §   Employment Plan: Tools for Success or Road Map to Failure? In this post, I called for an elimination of Employment Plans (EP) or Individual Employment Plans (IEP) as we use them, as one of the dinosaurs of workforce development, because they do not give the job seeker the tools to use once they get the job. Instead, I call for redefining the term and moving to the next century. Develop plans that help people not only obtain employment, but move to the next step.  (April 2013) §   Are you the...

If you are in the business of getting people jobs, you are certainly counseling job seekers about having an online presence. This means individual and group sessions about everything from establishing email to social media. There is an online alphabet soup out there, but are we doing people justice if we are not discussing with them what happens when you search for your name. Challenge: Search for your name. Try with quotation marks surrounding it, without quotation marks surrounding it. Try looking for the city and state you live in now and then all the places you lived in the past. Do you like what you see? I hope so because it is following you around. The “skeletons in your closet” are there good or bad. In the internet age, I can search for a job applicant I am considering hiring. I can search for my co-workers. I can search for family and friends. This means that secrets are not secrets anymore. Yes, there are legally things that employers can and can’t consider, but what...