Denise Michael's Marketing For Women Expertise!

Denise Michaels is an amazing agent of positive life change! She encourages women to become the positive change they aspire to be, and is an example of positive change, living her dreams even better than ever, after 40!

I am blogging about her today to share with my Linked In Helping Friends- Executive Women's Group. I reflect on this in particular now, since in the next 10 days, I will be living life as a professional with bigger dreams than ever, and after 40! Denise, is an incredibly self actualized business leader who accomplished her greatest successes after 40 years of age.

		* A published author selling thousands of books * Successful marketing mentoring and speaking career change agent * Lost 125 pounds

Her personal and professional business and professional life was supercharged with positive results from her activities... I think of that often as I approach "40" as a woman business owner ready for making all kinds of career and positive life changes, I thrive on the hard work, and the knowledge that others have done it too! That type of inspiration is contagious, and fortunately Denise is one of those rare treasures willing to SHARE her success.

Denise is the author of a book "Testosterone-Free Marketing: The Yin and Yang of Marketing for Women" which is very straightforward empowerment for women with a side of self-confident agents of meaningful change.

She continues to inspire women to claim their business potential with tips, marketing, and mentoring programs that help women recognize the business results they envision!


Get her book, "Testosterone Free Marketing." For your personally autographed copy and other FREE bonuses, go to http://www.tfmbook.com

Join *Real Women - Real Business - Real Success" Network at http://realwomen-network.ryze.com/

Other resources:
About.Com Article: Testosterone-Free Marketing: Not Just Business As Usual
Testosterone-Free Marketing is featured in Forbes Book Club

Career Attraction Secret!! It's out there, and you WILL Claim IT!

Are you someone who values positive expectation as part of your career search?

Good for you! This thought approach enhances your opportunities and optimism for the right opportunity increasing! Positive intention invokes a practice of creating your career ideal!

In the meantime here are some other things that can help your career rainmakers, to help you!

Don't "wait" put your resume, your LinkedIn.com Profille, and your References and URLs to Career Portfolio supports into your Success Readiness Package! Here are some optimistic actions you can take to be very ready for your next and ideal career objectives.

1. Register a complete profile at HFCN Candidates Board-- Complete resume, geographic and salary targets, and references/Linked In profiles. All this helps us to help you.

2. Use LinkedIn Profiles to Request and then publish endorsements from colleagues, customers, managers, and peers.

3. Summarize your skills and competencies that will most help you receive your desired employment and allowing the right career to present itself to you.

A great Blog on Success and Successful Activity.

Melanie Benson Strick is an Entrepreneurs Success Coach who communicates in a straightforward mindset about how to be, do and come to have more freedom to express and become your best selves. Her Article Library was full of wonderful Success Blog Articles and Podcasts.

Some of my favorites were

• 5 Tips to Release Energy Drains So you Can Get Back on the Fast Track.
• 3 Strategies that are guaranteed to sabotage your bottom line.
  
• Why Focusing on the "20" can keep you stuck..
  

Great stuff on this website for Professionals wanting to take the "intellectualization" out and put the "proactive" action back IN to their business day!

Check out the updated Helping Friends Career Network Toolbar!

RSS-- Career Leads on the Cutting Edge!!

Success on your terms.. YES YOU CAN!

Helping Friends Career Network has proudly released it's new jobs board RSS feed today, offering distribution and widget's in a variety of uses to satisfy the variety of flavors and methods our business network can receive job lead information.

Don't Wait for Your Ideal Job to Be Posted, Register Now, as some positions fill very quickly! Register online -- the more complete you are about your desired geographic locations, salary expectations and references, the more easily utilized your NEW CANDIDATE REGISTRATION.

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The Career Strategist Demonstrates Wisdom..

My toddler daughter has a remarkable capacity for dreaming, steadfast vision, and a genuine love of "princesses". She dreams of ballerina's and princesses. For President's Day yesterday she insisted that instead of the warm clothes, mommy wanted her to wear, she needed to be a princess (Cinderella jammies). I planned on taking the vacation day yesterday to take the kids to day care, and get caught up on business activities. It became clear that for this day and this moment, my priorities needed to shift. I needed to give some quality time to my 2 beautiful kids. Kyle is 7, Caitlyn is 2. I was able to persuade Caitlyn to dress in regular warm clothes and her princess boots, so we could go outside and play in the snow. Time with brutter and mommy was really much better than watching Curious George da Monkey and going to see her friends at "school". Caitlyn does not like the idea of school-- she wants to ride a yellow Skoo bus like brutter.

Sometimes it is a simply demonstrated action that speaks such a truth. Having enjoyed the blog, "The Career Strategist", thought I would share one of my favorite entries. The blog demonstrates a wisdom that savvy career strategists may begin to apply today.

Fear of rejection, insecurity and failure are mighty motivators if we let them be. Sometimes our story and needs become so overwhelming personally that we forget to create the type of memorable impression that gets offers, creates opportunities, and opens doors.

Creative inspiration, confidence, and vision are mighty motivators if we let them be as well. When we are living our effortless, authentic selves, opportunities just seem to come to us. The phone seems to ring with the message you need at the moment, and when your life is full of possibility more than doubt, "Katie unbar the door, great stuff's a happenin' ".

Acknowledgment that positive self talk and social wisdom is an applied activity that gets results that a career strategist aspires too. Developing strategies and life rituals that validate your own importance can allow you to change the notion of "hire me please, I need a job and you need to understand that" to "wow, this is someone I choose to work with, and could be OUR competitive advantage".

There is nothing more important than to validate another human being's importance. For there are two things all humanity needs

1. to be important
2. to be loved

So that is "The Secret" of human nature for today. How are you supporting yours and others basic humanity needs? What activities can you take RIGHT NOW to move yourself closer to living your goals?

If YOU are clear on the answers, you will be equally clear on accepting the right career when it is presented. Wishing you a little more career joy than you think you can handle, for I am sure the universe intends great things for you!

Careers in the Happy New Year 2007-- Year of the Boar

Happy New Year 2007! February 17 is the Chinese New Years Evening, and tomorrow is the auspicious Chinese New Year, in the Year of the Boar (Pig).

For our Linked In Helping Friends Business Community we shared some light hearted networking..

For Networking, here are Chinese Career and Business Interest Tips:

• CNBC Asia Business Leader Awards Winners in Business, Innovation, Talent, Corporate Citizenship, etc.
  
• CIO-Asia.com. What are the Telecommuting Trends of Asia, and what countries lead?
  
• FinanceAsia 100 Index Ranked Earnings over 3 Year Cycle.
  
• Who Controls the Companies that create the key Revenues?
  
• Which Country did the Companies com from?
  
• An International Jobs Forum suggests that interviews are generally conducted in a formal manner and adherence to the time and greeting business protocol. Observance of these traditions increases your prospect of employment.
• Tips and Dress Code for Chinese Job Interview.
  
• Career Experts suggest language skills in Chinese is a plus as, it is expected to be the leading internet language.
• Companies and individuals that want to succeed in business, can not underestimate the values of Chinese influence on business and manufacturing supply today.

"So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries. " Kim Dae Jung

Wishing you new auspicious beginnings, joy, and prosperity in 2007!

Dawn
http://linkedin.com/in/dmular
http://hfcareernetwork.com

If you are looking for some talented Linked In executive resume writers, please look at the following list - many are coaches and provide resume assistance. They work with people all across the country:

• Beverly Harvey 14 years experience coaching senior managers and C-level executives in career transition and career marketing strategies-with clients worldwide to develop the best career transition program. She personally writes each resume and portfolio of accompanying materials, develops a comprehensive job search plan, and coaches clients in all aspects of career transition. Beverly holds the industry's most esteemed credentials: Master Resume Writer, Credentialed Career Master, Certified Career Management Coach, Certified Job & Career Transition Coach, and Certified Professional Resume Writer.
  
• Cindy Kraft - The CFO-Coach Services - CFO COACH Executive Coaching and Resume Writing for CFOs, Corporate Finance Executives, and Banking Management Executives Certified career and personal brand strategist with more than 10 years' experience developing value-oriented personal marketing documents and coaching clients to win the jobs they want. Our clients are accomplished executives who understand the value of investing in themselves and are willing to do the work necessary to achieve their career goals.
  
• Deb Dib, CPBS, CCMC, CCM, NCRW, CPRW, CEIP, JCTC, 360Reach Certified Coach- Executive Power Group. A career practitioner since 1989, Deb is one of only a handful of professionals globally to be certified in (and use branding to support) the four cornerstones of career management—executive branding, resumes, job search, and executive coaching. She was a founding member of the National Resume Writers’ Association.
• Jack Chapman , M.A., Vocational Guidance (Illinois) A nationally-recognized career advisor and speaker, Jack is the author of what's come to be known as the bible of salary negotiation, Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1000 a Minute.
• Jan Melnik, MRW, CPRW, CCM - Absolute Advantage. (Connecticut) A Master Résumé Writer with 20 years' experience, Jan works with executives, senior-level managers, and professionals throughout the United States providing career management, job search coaching, and resume writing services.
• Kim Batson, CCMC, CJST, CTC - Career Management Coaching
• Kirsten Dixson, CPRW, JCTC, CEIP- Brandego (New Hampshire / Greater Boston) As one of North America's first Reach Certified Personal Branding Strategists and co-founder of the leading-edge executive web portfolio service, Kirsten is PCG's expert on communicating your personal brand online.
• Louise Kursmark, MRW, CPRW, JCTC, CCM, CEIP. Your Best Impression. (Ohio) An award-winning Master Resume Writer, Louise is the author of 11 career books. PCG senior consultant with more than 20 years' experience working with executives making career transitions.
• Martin Buckland , MRW, CPRW, JCTC, CEIP, CJST - An Elite Resumes (Ontario, Canada) A Master Résumé Writer, Martin is the Phoenix Career Group's international expert, providing effective resumes and job search support to earn a reputation as a career authority across North America.
• Martin Yate, CPC and New York Times Best-Selling Author (New York) Author of the Knock 'em Dead career guide series, Martin has more than 26 years of experience in the career field. Martin privately coaches PCG executive clients on effective methods for highly effective global targeting and contact.
• Phoenix Career Group - Executive Resources Services
• Roberta Gamza Career Ink. Roberta Gamza founded Career Ink, following a distinguished 15-year career in marketing with Hewlett Packard. At HP, she was best known as the communications expert and wordsmith behind the Technical Computing Sales Force. Successful careers are built upon effective marketing and communication strategies. Whether clients are marketing themselves, products, or services, a well defined marketing strategy and customized communication plan for the audience is essential to success.
• Robin Ryan RobinRyan.com Robin Ryan is a professional coach and bestselling author with appearances on Oprah Show, DrPhil, NBC Nightly News, Fox News, CNN, CNBC Offers Telephone Career coaching let's Robin help you anywhere, anytime! She offers: Career Counseling, Resume Writing, Interview Preparation, Salary Negotiation, Cover Letters. Products for Professional Development.
• Susan Britton Whitcomb, CCMC, CCM, NCRW, CPRW (California) Veteran professional, published careers industry author and current President of the Career Masters Institute, Susan has been cited in U.S. News & World Report, CBS Marketwatch.com, and National Business Employment Weekly. She serves PCG clients as a writer and coach.
  
• Wendy Enelow, CPRW, JCTC, CCM- Executive Gateway. (Virginia) One of the world's leading résumé writers, a careers industry pioneer and Founder and Past President of Career Masters Institute, Wendy is the current President of Enelow Enterprises International, Inc. and respected author of 20+ books on resume writing, cover letter writing, keywords, interviewing, and job search marketing.
  

Let us know if there are other accredited Executive Resume Writers you recommend in the comments section.

For Business Networking with professionals, join the Linked In Helping Friends Business Network-- a great place for making extensive business partnerships, or finding service providers with networking excellence and a reference-able Linked In Profile.

Success, Yes You Can!

Success, Yes You Can!

The Helping Friends Career Network Gift Store has a new campaign underway, called "Success, Yes You Can!"

Inspired Thought Happens when we pay attention to the opportunity in front of us. Sometimes this requires embracing a different vantage point.

As it relates to the Helping Friends, the question is, "Can Success Exist for me at my present age, career, location, or position?"




Unquestionably and without hesitation the answer is.. Career Success, Yes You Can!! So how are we going to cultivate a community of career success stories? We have already decided this is the outcome to be produced. We are listing the jobs, receiving your resumes, and our community resource base is growing.. Can we create MORE success? Absolutely!

Do you have a friend looking for a job? Friends DON'T let Friends job search alone! Buy them a gift from our Helping Friends CafePress gift shop, tell them to use the URL http://hfcareernetwork.com to register as a new Candidate job seeker. If the majority of jobs are found through networking, why not join the networking based job leads service, called The Helping Friends Career Network?

We are creating the job success of tomorrow, sometime late tonight! Friends are helping friends get results. Job Seekers pay nothing to be represented by our professional staffing services, and yet the value of finding a unique career to make them shine is priceless!

NEXT STEPS IN THE SUCCESS, YES YOU CAN Career Success Campaign:

• Executive Resume Services Tips for commanding the salary your experience deserves.
  
• A-Z Career Guide is refreshing it's content based with more Career Success Resources.
• Service Providers List is being updated to include more complimentary businesses. Link to us, refer to us, know that, YES WE CAN refer business to our partners.
  
• Monthly we will recognize Helping Friend Heroes in eNews, to highlight those who are creating uncommon business or career opportunities to our community.
  
• The poll on the Helping Friends Career Network Jobs Yahoo Group will be using your votes will influence the quality and type of Success Programs we produce, so vote in the next couple days.
  

Interview Preparedness Checklist..

We have offered various helps to career success.. resolutions, key words, visualizing success, preparing resumes.

Today we will share an Interviewer's Employment Success Checklist. Review materials in advance of an interview, consider the aid of a friend, mentor, or image coach to check the checklist and help offer feedback and check information to set the stage for your success.

An interview is not intended to GET a job, it is an intentional discovery between a candidate and employer to determine if there is a complimentary justification to work together. What I mean by this is that too many people are interviewing to GET a job.. What if the job you GET, is not one you want? This is costly to you and your employer, so preparing to be an active interviewer requires a bit of pre-work -- research into what you are, and what you do well for the interview, research into who they are and why you might want to work for them...

Try this out, let us know how you fare. If you rate yourself in these key elements before and after the interview, you will be well positioned to where career success is a matter of time and correct opportunity!

Wishing you much career success! Why don't you let us help you on the road? Register today as a New Candidate, then get more personalized networking and career resources at Helping Friends Career Network!

Looking for a referral to a coach or industry expert? Join the Linked In Helping Friends to connect yourself to the "in" crowd of networking professionals who are experts in their trade, and have the endorsements, profiles, and connection credentials! Once in, you can identify Career Coaches, Resume Writers, and other Job Service Industry Professionals with Networking Mastery!

Dawn Mular
Helping Friends Career Network

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What Investments Pay, in terms of Resume'?

In my local news paper, the Akron Beacon Journal, resume expert, Sarah Richardson advised of a trend to "dress a resume with icons, logos or art in her "Art Attack" resume tip. A LifeHacker blog on communication summarizes the type of investments will get you the best results in terms of resume.

We care about your success and are really only successful if we help YOU to be successful. After you have finished your resume, please take a moment to post your resume in our NEW CANDIDATES section if you have not registered with Helping Friends. Post an update if you have created a more focused resume. In the coming months we plan on selecting "excellent" candidates from our resume base who will receive additional career marketing services and feedback on how to optimize your resume for today's market.

To summarize some do's and don'ts for setting the right image:

• Do invest in refining and summarizing your skills to match the present industry needs.
  
• Don't substitute pictures for substantial experience.
  
• Do prepare a work portfolio to bring to the interview.
  
• Don't try to make your resume hold all the content of your work portfolio.
  
• Do Summarize- don't create novellettes.
  
• Do focus your text choices and formatting to make your resume easy to read and use.
  
• Don't try to too clever on your resume, with underlining font changes, etc.. that Resume Scanners can not easily interpret.
  
• Do accurately represent your skills, strengths, and experience in your resume.
  
• Don't "dramatize" or over-emphasize your skills.
  
• Do invest in targetted resumes, catered to your "ideal" employer.
  
• Don't lull yourself into a sense of if you send it, jobs will come.
  
• Do consider a List of published works as a supporting portfolio.
  
• Don't provide lengthy lists of published works within your resume.
  
• Do invest in improving your "action words" and summary content to match the current industry.
  
• Don't try to create a one size fits all resume, one size does not fit all, and is a leading cause of your resume not being read.
  
• Do summarize your special skills that present you as a competitive advantage for the job.
  
• Don't try to summarize every experience you have trained, had, or completed.
  
• Do remember that your "selling yourself " opportunity exists in the Cover Letter, Resume, References, Career Portfolio and Interview thank you process give you opportunities.
  
• Don't try to put too much into your resume, this is another leading cause of your resume not being read-- the oratory is just to difficult to see how you will fit.
  

A few great Resume Writer Resources:
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1. Tracy Laswell Williams has created a compelling brand of Career Magic with articles covering a wealth of job and career strategies including resume and career portfolio marketing.
   
2. Roberta Gamza of CareerInk has an expertise for helping clients present the most powerful career package. Resume Tips and samples are showcased on the CareerInk Site.
   
3. Jon Williamson is a Employment Expert from Williamson Employment who has offered links to some leading sample resumes.
   
4. Martin Buckland has a very nice blog on Resume and Career Services, called An Elite Resume Blog.
5. Beverly Harvey specializes in C Level and 6 figure executive professionals. Harvey Resume and Career Services features some great articles to read more about creating a demand for your services from your resume.

Dawn Mular
Helping Friends Career Network
A-Z Career Guide

10 attributes: What An Opportunity Magnet Does!!!

How does the Sunday before the Monday work day feel? I participated in a discussion recently where the topic was opportunity, and participants were sharing a near disdain for those who seem to have all the luck.

Some write books about it, sing about it, meet about it and seek self help regarding how they become the point of envy instead of the person envying.. My friends let us liberate ourselves from that burden of scorecard competition. Forego the disdain. Discard the romancing of limitations, and consider the magnet's charge as no so different from our human charge.

Guilt and shame often gets in the way of good opportunity. Somewhere along the line we have trained ourselves. Whether that training is for resiliency, rain making, or struggling to find a job or earn a living, the one thing we all have is unlimited potential, and unbiased capacity for success or failure.

What might you accomplish, dream or create if you were able to trade some of the notions that keep you feeling trapped for ideas that make you want to do backflips and you can not wait to start solving?

1. Opportunity Magnets can attract peak experiences because they are not distracted by life. Denis Waitley applied this technique in Visual Motor Rehearsal.
   
2. Opportunity Magnets realize that objections are merely a statement of unmet objectives.
   
3. An Opportunity Magnet DOES recognize extraordinary potential, because they create uncommon optimism and possibility.
   
4. An Opportunity Magnet understands statistics, but puts greater emphasis on articulating the milestones for success.
   
5. Opportunity Magnets do not have time nor interest in embracing limitations, they are too busy creating the stories people will be talking about.
   
6. An Opportunity Magnet DOES realize the powerful importance of consistent thinking, visualizing and taking action.
   
7. Continuous Service and Revenue Achievement is possible when not walking a continuous treadmill of "conditioned" failure. Office of Government Commerce discovered refinenent of the procurement functions and projects being aligned has resulted in less procurement cost and more revenue stream opportunities through simplifying the bid for business model of eAuctions.
   
8. An Opportunity Magnet realizes that time is money, that preparedness is capacity, and focus on the customer not just hanging around, creates recognizable potential.
   
9. An Opportunity Magnet does realize that consistent persistent action towards a business goal is possible, achievable and logical.
   
10. An Opportunity Magnet DOES remember that most limitations begin in the individual.
    

RESOURCES FOR BECOMING AN OPPORTUNITY MAGNET:

• ZenChill Blog
• Abraham Hicks message of the day