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How to Shorten Your Resume

By Ryan Bailey / 2020-07-15 /

For one reason or another, your resume is too long. Maybe you’ve finished your first draft to find you have a 5-page monster on your hands.  Or maybe you’re like me, and you just dump accomplishments and dates haphazardly into an overgrown document until you need them.  Maybe you’re simply overqualified for a role. Pushing…

Flush or Align Left and Right at the Same Time

By Ryan Bailey / 2020-07-14 /

Being able to flush/align left and right simultaneously is extremely helpful when creating professional documents. This is text flush left.  The text is aligned to the left. This is text flush right.  The text is aligned to the right.. Below is text flush left and right at the same time.  Notice how the texts share…

Format Your Resume to Make Your Recruiter Happy

By Ryan Bailey / 2020-05-28 /

There are countless resources on the internet about how you should format your resume.  Font, font size, margin, page count, layout, expensive paper?  The number of decisions you have to make when building your resume is dizzying. What decisions are right?  What kind of layout will help you get the job? To answer those questions,…

Acing a Behavioral Interview with a SOAR/STAR Document

By Ryan Bailey / 2020-05-06 /

“Tell me about a time when you dealt with conflict.” “How would you handle an upset customer?” “What role do you normally take in your team?” If you’ve ever received a non-technical interview, you might have prepared for questions like these.  Most interviewers use what’s called behavioral interviewing, a style of interview filled with questions…

Using Quarantine for Your Career

By Ryan Bailey / 2020-05-06 /

What day of quarantine are you on? Today is about day 45 for me. Around day 12 or so, I concluded that I was not a huge fan of COVID-19 at all. Especially as a career development coach, I’ve had a front row seat to the never-before-seen impacts of this global pandemic on our work…

Stop Stressing Over Multitasking

By Ryan Bailey / 2018-04-27 /

Ah, the much maligned multitasking. All leaders, whether they are faith-based or not – from pastors and ministry leaders to business leaders and professional service firms – doctors, lawyers, accountants, management consultants, financial consultants, other coaches and counselors – everybody is complaining about not having enough margin. They’re time-crunched and overwhelmed. It’s tough to get…

How to Talk to Your Children about Sex: When Children Become Teenagers

By Ryan Bailey / 2016-07-13 /

This past couple of months, we’ve discussed some critical tools to begin the conversation about sex with your children. I hope that you’ve begun to feel more comfortable and empowered to explore this topic with your child. More than anything, I hope you feel less alone in the matter. However, I recognize that there is…

How to Talk to Your Children about Sex: When Children Become Teenagers

By Ryan Bailey / 2016-07-13 /

This past couple of months, we’ve discussed some critical tools to begin the conversation about sex with your children. I hope that you’ve begun to feel more comfortable and empowered to explore this topic with your child. More than anything, I hope you feel less alone in the matter. However, I recognize that there is…

Exposing the Darkness

By Ryan Bailey / 2016-05-06 /

“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” -Mark Twain Do you remember that first moment someone you thought so highly of did something awful? The shock of your idol/sibling/parent/best friend doing something you know in your heart to be wrong? For me, one of the earliest instances…

Essentialism: Using Google Calendar for Time Management

By Ryan Bailey / 2016-04-30 /

How are you maximizing Google Calendar to keep you focused on your essential tasks?  I work with many business leaders and their teams, and one of the things we work on together is how to use our time effectively. As leaders, we have many demands on our time. And many distractions. Sometimes, we give-in to…