Archives
- 2012.04.21: Tell Me About Yourself Now Available for Kindle
- 2011.09.23: Companion Workbook Is Here!
- 2011.09.22: Examples of Telling Stories Backwards
- 2011.09.07: Use Stories to Prove Your Skills
- 2011.09.06: Ways to Read Both Editions of Tell Me About Yourself, the Book about Using Storytelling in the Job Search and Career Advancement
- 2011.06.12: Workbook Companion to Tell Me About Yourself Coming Soon
- 2011.05.24: Allison Partners Recommends Tell Me About Yourself
- 2010.08.07: Tim Tyrell-Smith Reviews Tell Me About Yourself and Lets Commenters Win Copies
- 2010.08.07: Radio Interview Based on Tell Me About Yourself
- 2010.08.06: Review of Tell Me About Yourself by Nancy Miller
- 2010.08.06: Epilogue: Let Your Career Story Unfold
- 2010.08.05: On-the-Job Storytelling Resources
- 2010.08.04: My Own Story of Change and My Career
- 2010.08.03: Final Sample Story of Handling Change
- 2010.08.02: Reviews of Tell Me About Yourself
- 2010.08.01: Three More Sample Stories of Handling Change
- 2010.07.31: Stories of Change Help Put Looming Transformation Into Perspective
- 2010.07.30: Using Storytelling to Cope with the Stress of Change
- 2010.07.29: Example No. 2: Accomplishment Story to Tell for Career Advancement
- 2010.07.28: Example No. 1: Accomplishment Story to Tell for Career Advancement
- 2010.07.27: Practice Self-Promotion Through Storytelling
- 2010.07.26: Story Prompts for Brainstorming Accomplishments
- 2010.07.25: Promote Yourself Through Story
- 2010.07.24: Illustrating Transformation Through Stories: Three Examples
- 2010.07.23: How Organizations Use Storytelling to Communicate Change
- 2010.07.22: Chapter 10: Propel Your Career Through On-the-Job Storytelling
- 2010.07.21: Final Thoughts and Resources on Story-Supported Personal Branding
- 2010.07.20: Blogging Your Storied Personal Branding
- 2010.07.19: Convey Your Story in an Online Profile
- 2010.07.18: Pump up Your Online Presence through Branded Storytelling
- 2010.07.17: Personal Branding, "Googlability," and Your Storied Online Presence
- 2010.07.16: Examples of Story-Supported Branding Statements
- 2010.07.15: Building Blocks for Branding Statements
- 2010.07.14: Your Story-Supported Branding Statement
- 2010.07.13: Branding as Storytelling
- 2010.07.12: Interviewing Story Resources
- 2010.07.11: New Research on Composing Written Responses to Interview Questions
- 2010.07.10: Writing to Learn (as Related to Preparing Written Interview Responses)
- 2010.07.09: Interview Preparation (and its Relation to Written Interview Responses
- 2010.07.08: Composing Your Stories in Writing Before the Interview Enhances Your Preparation
- 2010.07.07: Part 2 of the Interview Cheat Sheet Exercise
- 2010.07.06: For Easy Retrieval from Your Brain's Database, Give Your Stories a Title
- 2010.07.05: One More Sample of a Future-Oriented Interview Story
- 2010.07.04: Another Example of a Future-Story Response to a Situational Interview Question
- 2010.07.03: Storytelling for Situational and Future-oriented Interview Questions
- 2010.07.02: What Is The Most Significant Contribution You Made To The Organization During A Past Job?
- 2010.07.01: What Do You Think it Takes to Be Successful in This Career?
- 2010.06.30: How Do You Determine Priorities in Scheduling Your Time?
- 2010.06.29: What Kind of Supervisor Do You Work Best For?
- 2010.06.28: How Has Your College Experience Prepared You For A Business Career?
- 2010.06.27: Give Me a Specific Example of a Time When You Sold Your Supervisor or Professor on an Idea or Concept.
- 2010.06.26: Give Me a Specific Example of a Time When a Co-Worker or Classmate Criticized Your Work in Front of Others
- 2010.06.25: Tell Me About a Time When You Had to Make a Decision, But Didn't Have All the Information You Needed
- 2010.06.24: Have You Found Any Ways to Make Your Job Easier or More Rewarding or to Make Yourself More Effective?
- 2010.06.23: Give an Example of Your Experience at School or in a Job That Was Satisfying. Give an Example of Your Experience That Was Dissatisfying.
- 2010.06.22: What Are Your Standards of Success in School? What Have You Done to Meet These Standards?
- 2010.06.21: Have You Ever Had Difficulty with a Supervisor or Instructor? How Did You Resolve the Conflict?
- 2010.06.20: Describe a Time When You Put Your Needs Aside to Help a Classmate Understand a Task. How Did You Assist Him or Her? What Was the Result?
- 2010.06.19: Describe A Time When You Got Co-Workers Who Dislike Each Other to Work Together
- 2010.06.18: Describe a Specific Problem You Solved For Your Employer
- 2010.06.17: Give Me an Example of a Time You Had to Make an Important Decision. How Did You Make the Decision?
- 2010.06.16: Tell Me About a Difficult Situation When it Was Desirable for You to Keep a Positive Attitude
- 2010.06.15: Give Me a Specific Example of Something You Did that Helped Build Enthusiasm in Others
- 2010.06.14: Give an Example of When You Had to Work With Someone Who Was Difficult to Get Along With
- 2010.06.13: Tell of a Time When Your Active Listening Skills Really Paid Off for You - Maybe a Time When Other People Missed the Key Idea Being Expressed
- 2010.06.12: Describe a Project or Idea That Was Implemented or Carried out Successfully Primarily Because of Your Efforts
- 2010.06.11: How Have You Differed from Your Professors in Evaluating Your Performance? How Did you Handle the Situation?
- 2010.06.10: Compare and Contrast the Times When You Did Work that was Above the Standard with Times Your Work was Below the Standard
- 2010.06.09: How Was Your Transition from High School to College? Did You Face Any Particular Problems?
- 2010.06.08: Describe a Situation in Which You Found That Your Results Were Not up to Your Supervisor's Expectations
- 2010.06.07: Describe a Situation Where Others You Were Working with on a Project Disagreed with Your Ideas. What Did You Do?
- 2010.06.06: Give an Example of How You Applied Knowledge from Previous Coursework to a Project in Another Class
- 2010.06.05: Describe the Most Significant or Creative Presentation That You Have Had to Complete
- 2010.06.04: By Providing Examples, Convince Me That You Can Adapt to a Wide Variety of People, Situations, and Environments
- 2010.06.03: Describe a Time When You Were Not Satisfied with Your Performance. What Did You Do About It?
- 2010.06.02: Recall a Time from Your Work Experience When Your Manager or Supervisor Was Unavailable and a Problem Arose
- 2010.06.01: In a Supervisory or Group Leader Role, Have You Ever Had to Discipline or Counsel an Employee or Group Member?
- 2010.05.31: We Can Sometimes Identify a Small Problem and Fix it Before it Becomes a Major Problem. Give an Example of How You Have Done This
- 2010.05.30: What Steps Do You Follow to Study a Problem Before Making a Decision?
- 2010.05.29: Describe a Situation in Which You Had to Arrive at a Compromise or Guide Others to a Compromise
- 2010.05.28: Tell of a Time When You Worked with a Colleague Who Was Not Completing His/Her Share of the Work. What Did You Do?
- 2010.05.27: Sometimes It's Easy to Get in Over Your Head. Describe a Situation Where You Had to Request Help or Assistance on a Project or Assignment
- 2010.05.26: Give Me an Example of When You Successfully Communicated with Another Person Even When That Individual May Not Have Personally Liked You
- 2010.05.25: Give me a Specific Occasion in Which You Conformed to a Policy with Which You Did Not Agree
- 2010.05.24: Describe a Time When You Used Your Written Communication Skills to Get an Important Point Across
- 2010.05.23: Give an Example of a Time in Which You Had to Be Relatively Quick in Coming to a Decision
- 2010.05.22: Give Me a Specific Example of a Time When You Used Good Judgment and Logic in Solving a Problem
- 2010.05.21: Describe an Instance When You Had to Think on Your Feet to Extricate Yourself from a Difficult Situation
- 2010.05.20: Describe a Situation in Which You Used Persuasion to Successfully Convince Someone to See Things Your Way
- 2010.05.19: Describe the Most Complex Project You've Been Involved With
- 2010.05.18: Can You Give Me an Example of Your Team-Leadership Skills?
- 2010.05.17: How Have You Used Communication Skills to Manage Employees?
- 2010.05.16: Tell Me About a Situation that Tested your Coping Skills
- 2010.05.15: Describe a Time When You Stood Your Ground for a Principle You Believed In
- 2010.05.14: Tell me About a Time You Went Above and Beyond to Get a Job Done
- 2010.05.13: Tell Me About a Time You Had to Sell or Persuade Someone on an Idea of Yours
- 2010.05.12: Tell Me About a Time When You Made the Best of a Negative Situation
- 2010.05.11: Give Me an Example of a Time You Had to Rise to the Occasion and Take on New Responsibilities
- 2010.05.10: Give Me an Example of How You've Demonstrated Persistence
- 2010.05.09: Give Me an Example of a Time When You Set a Goal for Yourself and Successfully Pursued It
- 2010.05.08: What Personal Weakness Has Caused You the Greatest Difficulty in School or on the Job?
- 2010.05.07: Why Should We Hire You?
- 2010.05.06: Tell Me about a Mistake You've Made
- 2010.05.05: What Accomplishment are You Most Proud Of?
- 2010.05.04: Tell me About a Time You Came Up with an Innovative Solution to a Problem
- 2010.05.03: How Did you Choose This Career?
- 2010.05.02: Stories in Response to Traditional Interview Questions
- 2010.05.01: Answering Yes-or-No Interview Questions with Stories
- 2010.04.30: Storied Response Samples to the 'Tell Me About Yourself' Question
- 2010.04.29: Storytelling for Non-Behavior-based Interview Questions
- 2010.04.28: Not Just Stories, but Stories Well Told
- 2010.04.27: Story Formula Acronyms and Examples, Last Part
- 2010.04.26: Story Formula Acronyms and Examples, Part 3
- 2010.04.25: Story Formula Acronyms and Examples, Part 2
- 2010.04.24: Return to Alphabet Soup
- 2010.04.23: Stories in Behavioral Interviews
- 2010.04.22: Storytelling Is a Well-Known Technique in Interviews
- 2010.04.21: Portfolio Resources
- 2010.04.20: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Final Part
- 2010.04.19: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 16
- 2010.04.18: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 15
- 2010.04.17: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 14
- 2010.04.16: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 13
- 2010.04.15: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 12
- 2010.04.14: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 11
- 2010.04.13: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 10
- 2010.04.12: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 9
- 2010.04.11: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 8
- 2010.04.10: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 7
- 2010.04.09: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 6
- 2010.04.08: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 5
- 2010.04.07: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 4
- 2010.04.06: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 3
- 2010.04.05: Using Portfolio to Respond to Specific Interview Questions, Part 2
- 2010.04.04: Examples of Questions for Which Portfolio Artifacts Can Enhance the Stories You Tell in Response
- 2010.04.03: Storytelling -- Not Extreme Job Hunting -- Scores Employment
- 2010.04.01: Another Sample of a Portfolio-Guided Story
- 2010.03.31: Using Your Print Portfolio to Tell Your Story in the Interview
- 2010.03.30: Portfolios Present Success Stories
- 2010.03.29: Web Portfolio Makes Your Story Accessible 24/7
- 2010.03.28: Developing Stories Through Portfolio Preparation
- 2010.03.27: What NOT To Include in Portfolio
- 2010.03.26: A Portfolio is a Win Book
- 2010.03.25: Items to Consider in a Portfolio
- 2010.03.24: Artifacts for a Portfolio
- 2010.03.23: The Portfolio Explained
- 2010.03.22: Portfolio Tells a Story of Knowing
- 2010.03.21: Career Portfolio Can Help You Tell Your Story
- 2010.03.20: Cover-Letter Story Resources
- 2010.03.19: Sample Story-Based Cover Letters
- 2010.03.18: Don't Forget All Other Guidelines to a Good Cover Letter
- 2010.03.17: Don't Overlook Ads, Job Postings to Fuel Cover-Letter Stories
- 2010.03.16: Use Some of Employer's Own Messages/Language in Your Story
- 2010.03.15: Tell Only the Stories Relevant to Employer's Requirements
- 2010.03.14: Don't Use Cover Letter to Write Your Autobiography
- 2010.03.13: Tell Compelling Stories in Your Cover Letter
- 2010.03.12: Make Your Stories Specific and Quantify Results Whenever Possible
- 2010.03.11: Don't Neglect the "Storyline" in the Rest of the Cover Letter
- 2010.03.10: Do Make Your Cover Letter Reader-Friendly
- 2010.03.09: Do's and Don'ts for the Storytelling Cover Letter
- 2010.03.08: Cover Letter: Future Stories Addressing Employer Needs
- 2010.03.07: Cover Letter Stories to Explain a Career Change
- 2010.03.06: Cover-Letter Stories to Explain Unusual or Potentially Negative Situations
- 2010.03.05: Cover-Letter Stories that Capitalize on Networking Contacts
- 2010.03.04: Stories of Unique Qualifications for the Targeted Job
- 2010.03.03: Cover-letter Stories to Back Up Claims about Yourself
- 2010.03.02: Better "Heartstrings" Stories for Cover Letters
- 2010.03.01: Stories that Touch the Heartstrings
- 2010.02.28: New-grad Stories in a Cover Letter
- 2010.02.27: Types of Stories You Can Tell in a Cover Letter (Part 6)
- 2010.02.26: Types of Stories You Can Tell in a Cover Letter (Part 5)
- 2010.02.25: Types of Stories You Can Tell in a Cover Letter (Part 4)
- 2010.02.24: Types of Stories You Can Tell in a Cover Letter (Part 3)
- 2010.02.23: More Types of Stories You Can Tell in a Cover Letter
- 2010.02.22: Types of Stories You Can Tell in a Cover Letter
- 2010.02.21: Chapter 6: Cover Letters That Tell a Story
- 2010.02.20: Resume Story Resources
- 2010.02.19: Sample Story-based Resumes and Addenda
- 2010.02.18: Are Resumes Dying?
- 2010.02.17: Creating a Resume Addendum to Enhance Your Resume's Storytelling
- 2010.02.16: More RAS/RAC/RAP Story Examples
- 2010.02.15: Composing RAS/RAP/RAC Stories as Bullet Points to Describe Accomplishments
- 2010.02.14: Use Parallel Grammatical Flow in Bullet Points
- 2010.02.13: More Sample Opening Bullets
- 2010.02.12: Samples of Opening Bullets for Profile/Summary Sections
- 2010.02.11: Opening Bullet Point Should Tell Story of Your Professional Identity in a Nutshell
- 2010.02.10: Substantiate Your Bullet Points with Stories
- 2010.02.09: Using the Professional Profile or Qualifications Summary Section to Tell the Story of Who You Are
- 2010.02.08: Last Set of Guidelines for Story-Based Resumes
- 2010.02.07: More Guidelines for Story-based Resumes
- 2010.02.06: Guidelines for a Story-Based Resume
- 2010.02.05: Without Stories, Resumes Are Boring
- 2010.02.04: Side Note: Two Funny Examples of Story Resumes
- 2010.02.03: Resumes: Antithetical to Storytelling?
- 2010.02.02: Networking Resources
- 2010.02.01: Enlisting Your Personal Advisory Board in Reviewing and Critiquing Your Job-Search Stories
- 2010.01.31: Emphasizing Your Benefit to the Employer
- 2010.01.30: One More Elevator Story Formula and Sample
- 2010.01.29: Elevator Story Formulas and Examples (continued)
- 2010.01.28: More Elevator Story Formulas and Examples
- 2010.01.27: Formulas for Elevator Stories
- 2010.01.26: And One More Sample Elevator Story
- 2010.01.25: More Samples of Expanded Elevator Stories
- 2010.01.24: The Expanded Elevator Story
- 2010.01.23: Requesting Action
- 2010.01.22: Hooking Your Network Contacts into Your Story
- 2010.01.21: Final Four Elevator Story Samples
- 2010.01.20: Three More Sample Elevator Stories
- 2010.01.19: Two More Elevator Story Examples
- 2010.01.18: Sample Elevator Story
- 2010.01.17: College Student Elevator Story and Samples
- 2010.01.16: Elevator Story Structure and a Sample
- 2010.01.15: More about the Elevator Story
- 2010.01.14: The Elevator Speech Becomes the Elevator Story
- 2010.01.13: Build Relationships Through Storytelling
- 2010.01.12: Story-development Resources
- 2010.01.11: The Abilities Component of a KSA
- 2010.01.10: The Skill Component of a KSA
- 2010.01.09: The Knowledge Portion of a KSA
- 2010.01.08: KSAs
- 2010.01.07: Skills and characteristics employers seek
- 2010.01.06: Story to Illustrate Customer-Service Skills
- 2010.01.05: Story to Illustrate Decision-making Skill
- 2010.01.04: Tell Me About Yourself Called 'Darkhorse Career Book of 2009'
- 2010.01.03: Story to Illustrate Work Ethic
- 2010.01.02: Story to Illustrate Goal-Setting Skill
- 2010.01.01: More Examples of Stories that Illustrate Skills and Characteristics
- 2009.12.31: Stories That Use the Preceding Frameworks
- 2009.12.30: Story-framing Devices
- 2009.12.29: Identifying Characteristics to Highlight in Your Stories
- 2009.12.28: A Preview of Stories for Job Interviews
- 2009.12.27: How to Use These Stories
- 2009.12.26: Story Formulas
- 2009.12.25: What Story Best Captures the Quintessential You?
- 2009.12.24: Andy's Story
- 2009.12.23: Matt's Story
- 2009.12.22: Shelley's Story
- 2009.12.21: Craig's Story
- 2009.12.20: Abbie's Story
- 2009.12.19: What Can Be Learned from the Quintessential You Story
- 2009.12.18: Convey a Sense of Who You Are
- 2009.12.17: The Starting Point: A Story That Captures Your Essence
- 2009.12.16: When You Initiate Change
- 2009.12.15: Change Skills
- 2009.12.14: Sample Change Stories [ Continued ]
- 2009.12.13: Sample Change Stories [ Continued ]
- 2009.12.12: Sample Change Stories [ Continued ]
- 2009.12.11: Sample Change Stories [ Continued ]
- 2009.12.10: Sample Change Stories
- 2009.12.09: Change Stories
- 2009.12.08: Thomas Clifford Names Tell Me About Yourself Among His Top 2009 Book Picks
- 2009.12.07: Your Response to Change
- 2009.12.06: Change: Inevitable and Constant
- 2009.12.05: Forms of Change
- 2009.12.04: Drivers of Change
- 2009.12.03: Loss of Customer Base
- 2009.12.02: Changing Technology
- 2009.12.01: Employee Turnover, Especially in Management
- 2009.11.30: Change in Organization Ownership
- 2009.11.29: Business Process Redesign/Re-engineering
- 2009.11.28: Telling Stories about Change
- 2009.11.27: Preview of this book
- 2009.11.26: Stories told well help you portray yourself as a strong communicator
- 2009.11.25: Stories paint vivid pictures
- 2009.11.24: Stories explain key life/career decisions, choices, and changes
- 2009.11.23: Stories illustrate skills, accomplishments, values, characteristics, qualifications, expertise, strengths, and more
- 2009.11.22: Stories help you stand out
- 2009.11.21: Stories establish an emotional connection between storyteller and listener ...
- 2009.11.20: Stories establish trust
- 2009.11.19: Stories make you memorable
- 2009.11.18: Stories help you know yourself and build confidence
- 2009.11.18: Stories establish your identity and reveal your personality
- 2009.11.17: Why Story?
