This is intended to be a helpful “resources” page you can come to for many of your career prep needs. I’ll add to it as I discover more, but you’ll notice in the future that I will refer to this page often. Bookmark it for your future reference and convenience.

Here, I’ll post tools, objects, programs, videos. special links, and other stuff that’s proven useful to me, my students, or my businesses:

Resumeworded.com  Resumeworded has free profile services for LinkedIn. That’s good if you’re just getting started and don’t know LinkedIn’s “ins and outs.” You can also upload your resume for review and critique, too. It’s my experience that a customized resume for each possible opportunity yields substantially better results than a one-for-all cookie cutter resume. 

Photofeeler
Never ask a friend or relative their opinions of your business photo. They’ll typically select the “handsome”  or “pretty” photograph wherein you want a professional photo to communicate competence, likability, and your ability to influence (yes, a photo can communicate all of those. )Photofeeler is based on science with crowdsourced ratings. It’s a better bet.  Rate your professional photo for free. (and while you’re at it, you can rate your online dating photos free, too!)

Big Interview
Know what will calm your nerves at a job interview? Practice! When preparing for a job interview, it’s not enough to read advice — you need to put that advice into practice! Big Interview isn’t just a training course, but a whole interview prep system. You’ll also get hands-on practice with mock interviews tailored to your specific industry, job, and experience level.

I use Hover  to register my domains. Hover is inexpensive, reliable and it can’t be beat for customer service. I learned about Hover at a web developer’s conference. Hover was a favorite of the IT professionals who attended and seemed to be a well-kept secret. I switched all my domain names—nearly 50 at the time—to Hover.

If you’re serious about equipping yourself for workplace readiness, I urge you to start a blog soon as possible. You’ll get better at it over time and you’ll have a body of work prospective employers can review to get a sense of who you are, your skills, interests, and your strengths. Many of my students have been “discovered” through their blogs. This blog’s host, and the host I recommend for your blog, is Hostinger, a WordPress blog specialist.

I worked my way through college and understand the real price a student pays for earning her education. If there’s something you know well and feel a passion for, such as an interest or hobby , consider creating an online course and selling it on the Internet. I’ve had students who taught how to import products from overseas, craft brewing, flying drones, and other fascinating topics.  Teachable is the platform I recommend for online course beginners. I determined it was the best when I left the classroom to reach a wider population and I like it even more now. Teachable keeps adding improvements and features and I especially like its courses on course creation, “how-to” instructions, and its enthusiastic private user community on Facebook.

I update these resources from time to time and invite you to return to this page to see what I may have discovered that could benefit you.