Getting through the ‘The Great Resignation’ and ‘Quiet Quitting’: Career Cushioning

The pandemic-kick started Great Resignation is quitting work because the benefits or pay stinks, work hours are too stringent, a toxic environment, or all three. A 2022 survey indicated 81,000 technical workers were laid off that year, including Amazon, Meta, Door-Dash, and H&M. Quiet Quitting, is ...

Mirrored Recommendations May Get You Positively Noticed

Mirrored Recommendations May Get You Positively Noticed Nothing provides a warm, fuzzy feeling better than a business professional recommendation for capabilities and work performance always generates a warm, fuzzy feeling of appreciation. Traditionally, recommendations provide kudos to for work or work under a supervisor. In the ...

Quiet Quitting – What is it?

Quiet Quitting Quiet Quitting is a rising trend for a common form of job abandonment when an employee becomes absent or simply walks away without notice.  The term describes employees who either become increasingly mentally or physically absent from the workplace or simply walk away from ...

Guy R. Rogers – Senior Management, Project/Program Manager, Financial  Manager

Guy R. Rogers Suffolk, VA 23433 USA Mobile:  (757) 434-5870 Email: guyrogers225@gmail.com OBJECTIVE:  Senior Management, Project/Program Manager, Financial  Manager CAREER SUMMARY 20+ years, Mortgage Consultant (finance, lending) 20+ years, Sales & New Business Development (finance, lending, branch banking) 20+ years, Management (revenue pipeline, appraisals, title work, home & flood ...

Jack Augustin – Project Manager, Supervisor, Sustainment Trainer, Military Trainer

Joshua Jack Augustin Chesapeake, VA 23322 / vtjack@outlook.com OBJECTIVE:  Project Manager, Supervisor, Sustainment Trainer, Military Trainer CAREER SUMMARY 18 years, United States Army, Captain/O3E, Honorable Discharge: 12/22 5 years, Executive Officer, Director, Senior Manager (military, logistics, planning) 3.5 years, Recruiter (military) Clearance: DoD, Top Secret/SCI (last adjudicated: 08/18, ...

Reality check: Recruiters are not your friends

This fact may burst a bubble for most job seekers. The hard reality is job seekers have the wrong idea about what recruiters and headhunters do for a living. When one starts a search for a new job, the first professional they may try to connect ...

Lost Your Job? First Steps First.

Nothing is more worrisome than being out of work and dreading the bills coming in the mail that you can’t afford to pay.  Scarier yet is not having funds for job shopping (gas money or interview clothing).  Here are some ideas to help you get through ...

Don’t stop at job descriptions

Don’t stop at the job descriptions in your resume; list specific skills (not soft skills – hard skills) in your job search tool. Employers want to know what software you have mastered, what number of people you have supervised, or led as a team, and what ...

Brandon Burmeister – Logistics, Project Manager

Brandon C. Burmeister Hampton VA 23669 / (757) 606-5073 / brandonburmeister@yahoo.com OBJECTIVE:  Management, Logistics, Supervisor, Project Management, Human Resources CAREER SUMMARY 20 years, Army (Logistics Officer), CPT/O3E, Honorable Discharge 10/22 11 years, Director / Senior Manager (military) 4 years, Recruiter (military) 1 year, Instructor (military) Clearance: DoD, Secret (last adjudicated: ...

Josiah Myer – Senior Electrical Engineer, Manager or Director

Josiah C. Myer Chesapeake, VA 23322 / JCMyer119@gmail.com OBJECTIVE:  Senior Electrical Engineer, Manager or Director CAREER SUMMARY 5 years, Project Manager  4 years, Certified Master Electrician 3 years, Electrical Engineer 3 years, Marine Designer 3 years, Jobsite Supervisor 1.25 years, Entrepreneur, Business Owner Clearance: DoD, Confidential ...