Dressing Your Resume For Success Part Two

By: Kathryn Sollmann, Co-founder Women@Work Network

Last week, we covered the first of seven signs that your resume needs to be updated. Here are the remaining six ways you can keep your resume as up to date as this season’s fashions.
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Clara Furse, Dame of the Capital Markets

175276657_ad05a2fc6b_m.jpgKnown for fighting off unwanted bids by Deutsche Borse, Euronext, Macquarie and NASDAQ, the Chief Executive Officer of the London Stock Exchange, Clara Furse, will have the honor of becoming a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

She is being honored for her services to the financial industry on the Queen’s Birthday List which is compiled by England’s Prime Minister twice a year. Even though the Queen’s actual birthday is April 21st, her birthday is celebrated on the first, second or third Saturday in June for practical reasons. Mrs. Furse, along with 959 other people that have made outstanding contributions to their communities, will be awarded by Queen Elizabeth the 2nd herself.

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Confessions of an Equity Saleswoman

By: Natalie Sabia

As I dial the phone number and await the first person to answer, a feeling of anxiety, yet excitement consumes me. I gather my thoughts and search desperately within myself for the golden ticket, the one that will determine if I survive this call or not: confidence. While waiting for that confidence to start brewing inside of me, I patiently listen for someone to answer. “Will I get the assistant again?” I ponder, “Will they give me a hard time?”

I obsess over these thoughts in my head, but at the same time wonder just what they will be thinking once they do pick up. Will the financial advisor give me an attitude and then laugh to himself and think, “Why is this girl calling me?”
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Catalyst Provides Fresh Research on Women’s Business Leadership

Catalyst, the top think tank for women’s workplace issues, relaunched its new website on June 12, 2008. The new site is packed full of studies, interviews and news stories on diversity and inclusion practices of major companies, women in leadership positions and the advancement of women of color.

Founded in 1962, Catalyst is a major nonprofit membership organization working with businesses worldwide to build inclusive workplaces and expand opportunities for women and business. At The Glass Hammer, we consider Catalyst to be a reliable source for research data on the subjects that women in law, finance and business find most important. They also host the Catalyst Awards, kind of like the Oscars for diversity and gender-inclusiveness the the workplace.

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When The Negotiation Gets Tough, The Smart Take a Break

Contributed By: Carol Frohlinger, Esq., Managing Director, Negotiating Women Inc.

8598115_45bb7c2304_m.jpgEmotions and our ability to control them, make all the difference in our negotiations. The more important the negotiation is to us, the more challenging to manage our emotions. I had a personal experience recently when my temper flared and, as a result, I didn’t get the outcome I wanted. Yes, I knew better but still fell into the emotion trap.

Deepak Malhotra, Gillian Ku and J. Keith Murnighan’s Harvard Business Review article, “When Winning Is Everything” (May, 2008) discussed the problems negotiators face when they get so emotionally invested in besting the other party that their judgment suffers. These experts isolate three drivers of what they call “competitive arousal”:

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Ask-A-Recruiter: When Quantity Matters

Contributed By: Caroline Ceniza-Levine of SixFigureStart

Typical resume advice says that you show quantitative results — revenue generated, costs saved, profits increased. But what about people who aren’t in sales or don’t manage a budget. What results can a mid-level manager or someone new in a career show?

The benefit of quantitative descriptions is not exclusive to bottom line data; quantitative descriptions provide scope and scale for your accomplishments. Quantitative details are tangible. The significance of an event planning project changes when we know that 1,000 people attended.

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Joining The Groundswell An Interview With Charlene Li

By: Bailey McCann

1457984966_d3504fbe29_m.jpgRecently I spoke with Charlene Li co-author of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technology and analyst at Forrester Research. She spoke to me about how women can utilize the strategies in her book and the power of social media to leverage their networks and engage customers. Li presents five core strategies for using the power of social media, they are:

  1. Listening
  2. Talking
  3. Energizing
  4. Supporting
  5. Embracing

Each of these strategies are outlined in detail in the book. In our interview, Li focused specifically on listening, “listening can help market research by engaging the audience and finding what people are saying.” She also went on to point out that by listening to what people are saying, you can avoid social media fatigue by presenting only the most highly relevant content.

“Connecting customers to other customers,” and being a “one stop shop,” for all the information in your business, including information on your competitors can put you ahead in the marketplace.
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Dressing Your Resume For Success

By: Kathryn Sollmann, Co-founder Women@Work Network

Most women know what to wear to give the right impression in the right situation. Yet, even many women who spend thousands of dollars on each season’s fashions present themselves as paupers on resume paper.

At Women@Work we call it the “under-dressed” resume — resumes that don’t look right, sound right or project the image women so carefully craft in every other aspect of their lives.You can’t throw a resume together in a couple of hours. If you do, it’s obvious to an employer. You can run to the supermarket in your sweatpants with wet hair and no make-up, and hope that you don’t see anyone you know, but when you send out an under-dressed resume, there’s nowhere to hide.

When employers get an under-dressed resume, they wonder if you’ll take the time to make the right impression in a client meeting, if your reports will be thorough, or if you’ll embarrass the team with a presentation that you prepared in the 11th hour.

How do you know if your resume is as outdated as last season’s shoes, or as unimpressive as an old flannel shirt? Read the top 7 signs that your resume is not on the Best Dressed Resume List, and then spend more time with one or two of the most important sheets of paper in any professional woman’s life.

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Women Mean Business: Getting Leaders to Promote Women on Performance, Not Quotas

By: Alison Maitland

Senior business men offered their take on promoting women at an evening debate in Geneva on June 6 about our book, Why Women Mean Business: Understanding The Emergence Of Our Next Economic Revolution (previously featured on The Glass Hammer on February 5 and April 8).

The executives represented a great cross-section of global business: Gianni Ciserani is president of Procter & Gamble, in western Europe; Paolo Fellin head of marketing in Europe for Caterpillar, the heavy industrial group; and Peter Lorange recently retired as president of IMD, the Lausanne-based business school that educates executives of multinationals like P&G and Caterpillar.

It was also an interesting setting for the latest in a series of presentations that my co-author Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and I have done on the book. Switzerland is one of Europe’s most socially conservative countries: women represent just 6% of directors on major company boards and it’s predicted that it will take 70 years at current progress to reach gender parity in business leadership. Women often have to choose between career and family; 40% of university-educated women aged 40 are childless.

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Surviving Market Volatility: Advice from Risk Management Practitioners

Please join 100 Women in Hedge Funds for a discussion on portfolio risk management. As we reflect back on a heart-wrenching first quarter of 2008, where market volatility caused a number of spectacular collapses in hedge funds, not to mention banks, we ponder what best industry practices in risk management would have helped preserve capital in a tumultuous market. Our panelists come with a wealth of experience in managing various risks, both financial and business risks, in hedge funds and we look forward to their thoughts in the following areas:

* The usefulness of quantitative models, such as Value at Risk and stress testing
* Portfolio liquidity management in times of financial distress
* Investor liquidity management – risk of portfolio liquidity versus investor liquidity
* Lessons learned from the current liquidity crisis
* Best practice in managing counterparty risk
Networking and cocktails before and after session

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