Kylie O'D Resume Writing has been helping people further their careers and achieve their goals through resume writing services for over 15 years, including selection criteria writing.
It isn't just planned expenses that impact budgets but also small expenses and hidden fees and charges that eat away at our bank accounts. "Life is busy and we all get caught up with the daily grind," Lush Wealth financial advisor Christine Lusher says. 9honey Money spoke to seven finance experts to...
11/04/2024
Are you looking to cut the cost of living? Here are 70 frugal living ideas that could help your dollar go further.
The frugal living movement is going from strength to strength, as inflation takes a bite out of the budget and sends groceries, fuel and energy prices skywards. So, as $12 lettuces haunt shelves and power bill hikes drive householders to switch off heaters and instead tape cardboard over their windows, we’ve put together a list of 70 ideas designed to help kickstart the journey towards a more thrifty life and .
Are you looking to sure up your finances? Here are 70 frugal living ideas that could help you save money!
11/04/2024
2024 Quarter 1 is done and dusted!
Perhaps you have sent a child off to school for the first time, or started a home DIY project, or joined a fitness club. Maybe you set goals and objectives for 2024 - how is this panning out for you? What are you proud of this year?
Let’s look at the top strategies for how to set goals and achieve them in both your personal and professional life.
Knowing how to set goals and achieve them is an important process. Goal setting is powerful for creating motivation and giving clarity. Here’s why.
10/04/2024
The fundamentals of an awesome resume
Most resumes are pretty bad. Some of them are really bad. If you feel like yours might be one of these don’t beat yourself up over it for even a second. Resumes generally aren’t bad because you lack talent or you’re not a genuinely awesome human being. They’re bad in large part because crafting a killer resume is hard for nearly everybody. Even for executive level professionals, even these people when it comes to writing a resume get stuck. So why exactly are resumes so hard? Well firstly many people don't understand the game and how important it is to factor that into your resume and application. Secondly, because people struggle to explain what they do by second nature, or they struggle with how far into depth to go when explaining their roles and experience. Thirdly, because a lot of people cringe when it comes to writing about themselves in a way that truly showcases their talents and their strengths to a hiring manager or a recruiter. You know, in western culture we're raised not to brag too much and to be humble right? And lastly, writing an effective resume is a skill like any other - it takes lots of practice. How often do people write their resumes? Well sometimes as infrequently as once a decade! How on earth can we become skilled with that frequency? Don't beat yourself up, contact me today!
10/04/2024
12 Rules for Life is a book by Jordan Peterson that outlines 12 rules for living a meaningful life. The 12 rules are:
Stand up straight with your shoulders back
2. Treat yourself like you are someone responsible for helping
3. Make friends with those people who want the best for you
4. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not who someone else is today
5. Don’t let your children do anything that makes you dislike them.
6. Put your house in perfect order before you criticise the world
7. Do what is meaningful and not what is expedient
8. Tell the truth, or at least don’t lie
9. Assume that the person next to you knows something that you don’t
10. Be precise in your speech
11. Don’t bother children when they’re skateboarding. Discussion of encouragement. Encourage, don’t shelter.
12. Do not do anything for anyone they cannot do for themselves.
Public speaking can be nerve-wracking even with ample preparation time. An unexpected spotlight can further ramp up the heart-pounding, word-fumbling, and mind-blanking. Check out this audio-only course.
03/07/2021
Are you unhappy in your current role, and in need of a change?
Who wouldn’t want to love their job? There is no doubt that positivity is good for your career and your emotional wellbeing!
Job satisfaction happens when you feel you have job stability, career growth and a comfortable work life balance.
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It's certainly something that I seem to keep circling back to.
For me, the journey started with working in the recruitment industry. I landed a job with an engineering recruitment consultancy which involved me preparing candidates resumes before they were presented to clients for consideration. And to be perfectly blunt, I was shocked at the state that resumes were being sent in to our company. I mean, these are Engineers and Architects?! Well-educated individuals that are supposed to have attention to detail?
I found myself writing resumes for friends and family, giving advice on how to present their resumes in a format that is easy on the eyes and quick to scan through to pick up the important parts.
After a year in this role and no foreseeable job progression, I found myself desperate to move on to another job. I applied for many government roles without success, until I asked a friend from hockey for help. She was on the selection committee of a government department (not the one I was applying for), and gave me a few more points on my resume but a lot on my selection criteria. So I submitted my application and although I was unsuccessful, I received a call from the department to tell me my resume and application were excellent and to keep applying. I suspect the position was already filled internally, and someone was disappointed for me so they reached out to encourage me.
Over time with each success, both with my applications and others, I realised that I had some serious skills in resume and selection criteria writing, and that my passion was to help people succeed in finding a new job.
I was often worried that I would found myself stumped with a stellar CV and no value to add! But instead I was left wondering how it is that so many of us can get it so wrong when it comes to writing a CV. After all, this is a document which can change the course of our careers.
What I have learned is that even the brilliant struggle to define what they do, even as a specialist in their field, and it requires someone with a fresh pair of eyes looking from the outside. Someone who knows first hand what recruiters and hiring managers are looking for in a resume. And these are the people reading your resume, so getting someone else to help articulate it is the best step you can take.
Fast forward a few years and after taking a break to have my first baby, I decided to put an ad in the paper (yes, the paper because this was 2010 and people still looked for jobs in the paper) and just get started. I could have spent a long time preparing, creating marketing material and websites, but I decided to dive straight in and figure it out as I went along. I had 8 calls the first week! My biggest concern was worrying that I would be too busy! But I found the sweet spot with pricing and wrote over 400 resumes in the span of a few years, and had a second baby.
Since then, I have helped many people perfect their CVs, prepare for job interviews and succeed in their job search process. I prefer to empower people to keep doing this for themselves, and so I have an educational approach where I explain the reasons why we are writing it the way we do.
To find out how I can help you, send me a PM or email [email protected]
I also have lots of free resources!