Success Discoveries’ Career Coaching for Adults™ is a timeless yet innovative program specifically designed to support adults wanting to explore a shift in career. Clients range from those retiring from one career such as pilot, to those displaced by hard economic times, to those displaced due to a mismatch to the job or a re-organization within the company. Many clients simply want to explore the idea of changing careers without any “external event” forcing their hand.
HR Humor: The Lighter Side of Work
Source: CiteHR.com
Found on real resumes and cover letters:
• “Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year.”
• “Wholly responsible for two (2) failed financial institutions.”
• “Failed bar exam with relatively high grades.”
• “It’s best for employer that I not work with people.”
• “Let’s meet, so you can ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’ over my experience.”
• “You will want me to be Head Honcho in no time.”
• “Am a perfectionist and rarely if if ever forget details.”
• “I was working for my mom until she decided to move.”
• “Marital status: Single. Unmarried. Unengaged. Uninvolved. No commitments.”
• “I have an excellent track record, although I am not a horse.”
• “I am loyal to my employer at all costs. Please feel free to respond to my resume on my office voicemail.”
• “I have become completely paranoid, trusting completely no one and absolutely nothing.”
• “Personal interest: Donating blood—fourteen gallons so far.”
• “Instrumental in ruining entire operation for a Midwest chain store.”
• “Note: Please don’t’ misconstrue my 14 jobs as ‘job-hopping’. I have never quit a job.”
• “Reason for leaving last job: They insisted that all employees get to work by 8:45 am every morning. I couldn’t work under those conditions.”
• “The company made me a scapegoat, just like my three previous employers.”
• “References: none. I’ve left a path of destruction behind me.”
Career Coaching for Adults™ is a powerful and sophisticated program for adults in career transition that is based on extensive scientific research that uses highly validated assessments as the center piece to meeting the goals of the program. Have fun watching this short video on what we think about many of the “career advice and assessment products” that are on the market. You might be able to relate but we hope not.
