Category Archives: Storytelling and Career

Today is Job Action Day 2009, a day for job-seekers to take action steps right now — today — to move forward in their careers. The Quintessential Careers family of blogs (including this blog and Quintessential Careers Blog, Quintessential Resume and Cover Letter Tips Blog, and Career Doctor Blog), is … Continue reading →

If I mentioned to you a book titled Memory Mining, what would you think it was about? Improving your memory? Digging through your memory to construct your life story? What if I told you the book’s subtitle: Digging for Gems from Your Past Good Work? For what purpose? Why should … Continue reading →

As if in response to yesterday’s entry in which Nick Corcodilos asked, “So, does your resume tell a story?” Certified Resume Strategist Karen Siwak writes about Career Storytelling: How Sharing Fascinating Experiences Gets YOU Hired!. “Ask any recruiter about a memorable candidate,” Siwak writes, “and chances are that it will … Continue reading →

I’ve always been a big fan of Nick Corcodilos of Ask the Headhunter for his iconoclastic opinions and exposes of the dark underbelly of the hiring and job-search arenas. Now I have even more reason to be a fan; Nick has just published on Fast Company, Toss Your Resume in … Continue reading →

Cindy Chastain (pictured) joins Whitney Quesenbery as a user-experience (UX) guru who draws upon storytelling. In a lengthy essay in the October issue of Boxes and Arrows: The Design Behind Design, Chastain writes about how a storytelling method can help unify teams and create better products. I encounter very few … Continue reading →

I have written about several story structures that job-seekers can deploy — especially in job interviews — but also in resumes, cover letters, and other job-search communications. Let’s review: Traditional Situation (or Problem or Challenge) > Action > Result (SAR, PAR< CAR) structure Steve Denning’s Attention > Desire > Reasons … Continue reading →

In yesterday’s entry, I lauded the How to Find Your Story Worksheet that Elizabeth Sosnow of BlissPR created for B2B businesses. As promised, today I present my adaptation of the worksheet for job-seekers. As I noted yesterday, for job-seekers to use this worksheet effectively requires thorough research into each targeted … Continue reading →

I recently came across Elizabeth Sosnow of BlissPR and its blog, B2B Bliss: PR for Thought Leaders, in which she is offering an awesome worksheet called How to Find Your Story. It’s particularly targeted at businesses, and especially businesses in the B2B realm, but as always my mind starts spinning … Continue reading →

In addition to appearing in this space, my blog entries also appear in my Facebook profile, and occasionally I get more comments on the Facebook version than I do here at A Storied Career. Such was the case with Tuesday’s entry about whether career-changers should use a white-lie/half-truth “cover story” … Continue reading →

I’ve written somewhat extensively in two of my books about the elevator speech, which is also known as the elevator pitch. In Tell Me About Yourself: Storytelling to Get Jobs and Propel Your Career, I call this communication tool the Elevator Story. I have to admit, however, that of all … Continue reading →