PORTFOLIO CREATIVE BLOG

Career Goals: Does Your Resume Reflect the Future?

By Kristen Harris Resumes are tricky documents! It seems so simple–just drop in all of your past jobs and skills, make it look good, and you’re done–right? Not exactly.  A great resume includes the past, present, and future of your career, highlights your top skills, shares professional affiliations, touts past successes, and clearly shows why you’d be great for the job. Also, you have about six seconds to catch the reader’s attention before they move on. Phew!  There’s a lot of advice available about how to best capture and present

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Your Career: Reflection and Goal Setting for the New Year

By Kristen Harris “Alice: Which way should I go?Cat: That depends on where you are going.Alice: I don’t know.Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”                          ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Do you know where you’re going? It’s important to figure that out, because you’re going to end up somewhere. Let’s make sure it’s actually where you want to be. The holidays are a great time for goal setting and personal reflection. It’s true! In-between the food, friends, family and celebrations, the end of the year is a perfect

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