Jeri Hird Dutcher
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Jeri Hird Dutcher, Career / Job Search Coaching Expert
Jeri Hird Dutcher Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Assessment, Goal Setting, Company Research, Job Search, Interview Preparation, Salary Negotiations
- Best Sellers
- Professional, Technical, and Executive Resumes, Cover Letters, and Interview Preparation
- Career Focus
- Coach and Writer
- Affiliation
- Memberships in Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches, Career Directors International, Chamber of Commerce (Small Business Committee Chair), and the local affiliate of the Society for Human Resources Management (2009 State Conference Marketing Chair)
Jeri Hird Dutcher inspires executives and professionals to envision, attract, and achieve the career of their dreams.
Jeri holds certifications from the Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches in career coaching, resume writing, and interview preparation.
Her professional writing experience goes back more than 25 years (Would you believe she started when she was 4?) For 10 of those years, she has dedicated herself to writing resumes and providing job search assistance in nearly every industry.
Jeri specializes in job seekers who achieve the job / career of their dreams by trusting that the greater plan is always good; believing they have a purpose within that plan; opening themselves to higher possibilities; and being willing to learn new tools.
Recent highlights from her career include:
- Offering useful career / job search information on SelfGrowth.com.
- Serving as Fargo Resumes Examiner on Examiner.com.
- Contributing to JobDig, a 12-state regional career and job search publication.
- Serving as a senior editor for ResumeEdge.com, the premier online global resume provider.
- Piloting ResumeEdge’s interview preparation program.
- Having two resumes published in A old Boldt’s Resumes for the Rest of Us.
Jeri's background includes award-winning writing, editing, and design as well as public relations management in several industries. She earned a BA in English (summa cum laude) with a concentration in writing and taught composition at the college level.
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Negotiate for what you're worth: 10 tips to get you through the stormy job market
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the job market, rumors of a double-dip recession and even depression cloud the economic and employment horizon. On the panic meter, being out of a job right now is second only to having just retired. It's been an employer's market regarding the number of jobs available and the salary packages offered for those jobs. Many employers have been relying on bonuses instead of salary increases and other pay-for-performance compensation models.r
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Dream up your dream job (Part 1 of 2)
We spend at least eight hours per day working, some of us much more. We have every reason to want to enjoy the time. This and the following exercises will help you choose the best job for you, as long as you know the kinds of things you like to do. One caveat: If you're young enough that you haven't had a lot of work experience, you may not know enough about yourself or the work world to gain a great deal. However, you may have enough imagination to make it work anyway. Keeping that in mind, give it a shot.
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Dream up your dream job (Part 2 of 2)
A whole new day In Part 1 of this exercise, you jou aled for what must have seemed like hours. Maybe it really was hours. You answered a comprehensive list of questions about your preferences about your career, job, workplace, colleagues and schedule. Relax for five minutes like you did before, paying attention to your breathing. When you inhale, think "Breathing in," and when you exhale, think "Breathing out." This keeps your mind busy so that it rests.
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Increase your confidence when going after your first management job by refocusing your resume
With 15 years in systems analysis and some management experience, "Hugh" wants to move into management. The trouble is he doesn't feel ready to make the move with a resume that still looks and sounds like that of a systems analyst. Hugh has tried several times to change it himself, and no matter what he does, the technology details take over the resume.
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Keeping a job search on track requires accountability coaching
Even with the best intentions, job search candidates can be their own worst enemy if they lose focus on their goal. Industry intelligence has it that the average executive job search is currently 23 months long. This may not be the case in your area, as some individual regions have not suffered as drastically as the national job market and other specific areas. The more general rule of thumb is that an executive candidate can count on searching one month for every $10,000 in targeted salary.
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Think and Grow Rich 1: Use business wisdom to fuel your job search
(Part 1 of 10) Back in 1937, Napoleon Hill published a book titled "Think and Grow Rich." It remains to this day the top-selling business book of all time. Much of the "new" business wisdom of our time is based upo Hill's book, including the new-thought best-selling book and movie "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne, the system that shows you how to work Hill's principles, "LifeWoRx by Design" by Don Cote," and even a yearlong coaching program from Bob Proctor, one of the celebrities appearing in "The Secret."
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Think and Grow Rich 2: Finding a great job starts with wanting one (and who doesn't?)
In Napoleon Hill's best-selling "Think and Grow Rich," everything starts with desire, the first of eight steps to success Hill identified in his conversations over 20 years with the most financially successful people of the early 20th century. Hill's eight steps correlate to components of a job search, as well. The first step is knowing what you want.
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Think and Grow Rich 3: Psyche up to reach your career goal
(Part 3 of 10) Napoleon Hill's best-selling business book of all time derived from the beliefs and actions of many of the richest and most successful people of the early 20th century offers eight steps to success: 1. Desire 2. Faith 3. Autosuggestion 4. Specialized knowledge 5. Imagination 6. Organized planning 7. Decision 8. Persistence The second step is Faith. In Hill's own words, this means, "Visualization and belief in the attainment of desire."
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Think and Grow Rich 5: Do you have the education for a new career?
Microsoft.com Specialized knowledge is one of Napoleon Hill's eight steps to success. (Part 5 of 10)
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Planning helps ease long-distance job interview jitters
Interviewing for a new job can be stressful. If flying isn't your favorite pastime, boarding a plane to reach a job interview can magnify the stress of both circumstances until it feels as taut as an overstuffed suitcase. SeatExpert.com has a trick to help job seekers rest a little easier by giving them a way to get a better seat. A passenger can search by the flight number or browse by airline to find the type of plane being boarded. The three-step process is explained on the "How it Works" page.
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10 tools to simplify your job search
Two savvy people talking about the same thing on the same day generally means it's something to pay attention to. Resume guru Julie Walraven at Desig Resumes.com told how to use Skype to collaborate on documents such as your resume. It's really simple. 1. Call your resume writer, coach, recruiter, or interviewer on Skype. 2. When you see the message field, click "share" below it and then "share full screen." 3. Open the document you want to share and discuss or edit it together. Julie's written about the process in much more detail on her blog.
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Build your job search and workplace on imagination
Start with imagination, says Italian Peruvian author and consultant Piero Morosini. Make it the focus of your work. Not money, not power, not stock options. Imagine. Now, imagine what careers, jobs, and the transitions between them would look like in that world. Seven Keys I recently heard Peter Day of the BBC's Global Business program interview Morosini about his new book The Seven Keys to Imagination, subtitled "Creating the future by imagining the unthinkable ... and delivering it".
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Jeri Hird Dutcher
I have never had a client who wasn't a genius. Each of us has that spark of magic that makes us unique and valuable. Together, you and I determine what that is and how we breathe it into life to make your job or career a testimony to your genius.
At the same time, each of us has a larger work. That is, to quote Mahatma Gandhi, to "Be the change you want to see in the world." I live that daily through my work to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to love their job.
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