David Jensen
MPC, CPRW, CARW, CEIP
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David Jensen Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Producing resumes, cover letters, academic application essays, employment and interview coaching
- Career Focus
- Consultant, speaker, writer
- Affiliation
- Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches (PARWCC), Career Directors International (CDI), Dynamic Parenting Solutions
I have a Master’s degree in Professional Communication. I currently work as a freelance writer producing Web content, SEO articles, marketing articles, press releases, grant proposals, and employment documents.
I am a Certified Professional Résumé Writer (CPRW), a Certified Advanced Resume Writer (CARW), and a Certified Employment Interview Professional (CEIP). I have been preparing resumes and employment documentation for over four years. I have helped people apply for jobs, graduate school admissions, and scholarships. I have also done extensive research in strategic career planning and career changing. I have prepared over 300 résumés and essays for various professions (IT, sales and marketing, public relations, engineering, technical, etc.). I regularly teach a résumé preparation workshop to professional-level job seekers. I have expertise in coaching people through employment seeking, interviews, and salary negotiation. I am also a professional writer having worked as a technical writer in the IT industry for more than 10 years. My primary Web site is http://www.ascensionwriting.com/.
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Recognize What is Important in your Current Life Status
There are three areas of your life that tend to have the strongest demand for your attention—personal, professional, and financial. Picture a pie chart featuring each of these categories. Ideally you would like to achieve a balance in these three areas; however, this type of life balance is rare and even if you do reach it at some point, it is difficult to sustain. When you juggle work, finances, and family, you know there will be disruptions to each of these areas as you strive to accommodate the needs of all three.
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Boosting Your Expertise is a Good Way to Build Clientele
A big part of setting up a home-based business involves marketing your business and building a clientele. Your marketing efforts boil down to either an investment in money or time. When starting out, you are likely on a shoestring budget so a good approach is to devote time learning about low-cost and no-cost marketing strategies. One low-cost marketing strategy is to become the perceived expert in your field. Word-of-mouth can become your primary method of advertising when you are the perceived expert at the type of work you do.
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Teaching Kids about Nutrition? Add Patience to the Food Pyramid
With the onset of a new school year, it was time to start thinking about establishing healthy school-time routines especially in the area of nutrition. After dining on cold cereal and pop corn all summer, it was time to reacquaint my kids with foods that don’t come with toys or have cartoon characters on the back of the box—or for that matter, foods that don’t even come in a box. Upon preparing to enter the seventh grade, my daughter announced that she wanted to pack a lunch to school. After toting a lunchbox all through grade school, I thought she would be ready for school lunch.
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Failure is an Integral Part of Success
During a commencement address, Apple co-founder, Steve Jobs talked about how he dropped out of college because he felt he was wasting his parents’ hard-ea ed money. He later went on to help develop Apple Incorporated. After a 10-year run at the helm of Apple, his own board of directors fired him. He later went on to help build Pixar. Eventually, he went back to Apple and engineered the company’s triumphant return as a competitor in the marketplace. In short, Jobs looked back on his so-called failures and connected the dots.
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Want To Achieve Success? Don’t Watch Your Gears
During the Tour de France in 2006, the commentators mentioned how one of the lead riders was looking down at his bike’s gears during a difficult leg of the race. At that point, the rider’s performance began to wane and he finished far behind the lead pack. His biggest problem was that he began ...
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David Jensen, CPRW, CEIP
Employment Consultant
Ascension Writing Services
2057 Redondo Place
Salt Lake City, UT 84108
(801) 755-4364
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