My company, Ian Martin Ltd is celebrating today. It`s the first day of our new brand (code for the kind of wholesale change we see on Extreme Home Makeover) and we are having a party.
Watching the various changes in the works got me thinking about how a “career makeover” would look. Think about when you get a haircut and everyone thinks you look younger or when you get glasses and everyone suddenly thinks you look smarter.
If you did a wholesale refresh on your resume today, how would it look? Would you use more contemporary fonts? Change the focus of your objective? Maybe you could add some different achievements like the webinar you co-hosted last week or the big project that your team just completed.
Maybe you would sign up for that course you have had your eye on. You could do one night a week, couldn’t you?
You could take a look at your Linkedin profile. Does it really reflect who you are today and more importantly, where you want to be tomorrow? Is the picture fresh? Please tell me you are not using the photo of you and your ex…..that would be bad, really bad.
You can go ahead and make a haircut and brow renovation appointments. You can visit Warby Parker and pick out some new glasses but you don’t have to go great expense for a career makeover. Just give it some time and some thought. That’s all it takes.
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