In this age of mass-communication, few skills are more important than writing. No matter what your profession, the better you are at conveying your thoughts and ideas through your writing, the easier it will be to accomplish your work and communicate with your customers, your co-workers, and your superiors. A lot of writing I see [...]

I was inspired to write today when I stumbled upon this quote by Stephen R. Covey.
“You can change. You can live out of your imagination instead of your memory. You can tie yourself to your limitless potential instead of your limiting past.”
— Stephen R. Covey
That statement is profoundly enlightening and authenticates my own fundamental belief [...]

Emotional Intelligence, Soft Skills Measuring Stick
You may never really have thought about it before but the soft skills you have developed throughout your life are an essential element to most any employment you seek. In his book Working With Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman suggests that it is not your intellect, experience or skills that make [...]

Do you want a job with the federal government?  Many people do, it’s a great career choice and one that can provide lasting stability, advancement, and personal and professional reward.  I am currently an employee for the US Department of Homeland Security.  I can’t go into specifics regarding what I do for the Agency, but [...]

One of the lessons I have always tried to teach both of my children, most times with great difficulty, is that “life is not fair…get used to it.” I want to illustrate and expound upon this simple lesson today and point it in a direction we can expressly apply to our approach to writing resumes.
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For those of you who read my very long, first post about the history of what inspired me to start the-write-biz.com, I thought I would go ahead and layout some ideas you can use to nurture and develop your style of writing.
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