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Articles by Dawn Rasmussen, CMP

Dawn Rasmussen, CMP, is a Certified Advanced Resume Writer and the president of Portland, Ore.-based Pathfinder Writing and Career Services. Clients from across the United States and Canada and from all career levels have benefited from Dawn's highly-focused and results-oriented resume, cover letter and job search coaching services. Many professional groups as well as colleges and universities have appreciated the insights and expertise she shares during presentations on career management topics, and she is a frequently requested national speaker as a result. Dawn also has also shared her knowledge as the official "Get the Job" columnist for MPI's magazines and writes as a jobs expert for the "Career Oxygen" feature on Talentzoo.com.

Assessing and identifying meeting stakeholders

June 25, 2018 by Dawn Rasmussen Leave a Comment

Assessing and identifying meeting stakeholders

Building buy-in and more importantly, meeting the expectations of your stakeholders is an extremely delicate balancing act.

Filed Under: Goal-setting, Project management, Proving your worth Tagged With: Company Stakeholders, Event Professional, project management, Stakeholder Business, stakeholder management, stakeholders

Conferences to grow your thought leadership

April 4, 2018 by Dawn Rasmussen 1 Comment

Conferences to grow your thought leadership

Accelerate your career and professional development by learning to stretch your thought leadership skills.

Filed Under: Finding inspiration, PYM Blog Tagged With: Business Innovation, conferences, Industry Education, leadership, Leaderships Skills, meeting planning, professional development, thought leadership

What to do when a recruiter calls you

October 16, 2017 by Dawn Rasmussen Leave a Comment

What to do when a recruiter calls you

When a recruiter comes knocking, this is the time to at least open your mind to new possibilities—even if you don’t plan on leaving your current position.

Filed Under: Career advancement Tagged With: career management, job recruiter

Long-term career options for meeting planners

May 3, 2017 by Dawn Rasmussen 3 Comments

Long-term career options for meeting planners

It’s easy to get entangled with the logistics of the daily grind and the meeting industry can be a fickle mistress when it comes to career moves. There aren’t a lot of such options, but the good news is that there are more than you think.

Filed Under: Career advancement Tagged With: career management, job satisfaction

Current career challenges for planners

March 15, 2017 by Dawn Rasmussen Leave a Comment

Current career challenges for planners

The meeting industry is one of the most metric-driven sectors ever–and that can have powerful implications for your career.

Filed Under: Career advancement, Proving your worth Tagged With: career development

Tips for providing on site staff/volunteer orientation

December 27, 2016 by Dawn Rasmussen 3 Comments

Tips for providing on site staff/volunteer orientation

Tips for providing on site staff/volunteer orientation

Filed Under: Communication strategies, Staffing Tagged With: orientation, volunteers

Pay it forward for the best holiday gift ever

December 22, 2016 by Dawn Rasmussen Leave a Comment

Pay it forward for the best holiday gift ever

Pay it forward for the best holiday gift ever. Regardless of your tenure or title you’ve already invested a great deal of time and energy into becoming an industry professional—and now is the time to give back.

Filed Under: Career advancement, Giving back Tagged With: mentor

A mentor Thanksgiving

November 25, 2016 by Dawn Rasmussen Leave a Comment

A mentor Thanksgiving

Along with the thanks given around the dinner table, wouldn’t this be a good time to send out a note of thanksgiving to your mentor?

Filed Under: Giving back Tagged With: mentor, thanksgiving

Career references: Building your cheerleading squad

November 2, 2016 by Dawn Rasmussen Leave a Comment

Career references: Building your cheerleading squad

You should mindfully list people that provide a full-spectrum, in-depth assessment in broad brush strokes of who you are, how you operate, what you do and how you do it.

Filed Under: Career advancement Tagged With: career advice, references

Top ‘harmless’ résumé lies that cause big-time hurt

October 10, 2016 by Dawn Rasmussen Leave a Comment

Top ‘harmless’ résumé lies that cause big-time hurt

Top ‘harmless’ résumé lies that can cause big-time hurt–and how to address them.

Filed Under: Career advancement Tagged With: ethics, résumé

Career confidential: How to turn failures into pure gold   

September 12, 2016 by Dawn Rasmussen Leave a Comment

Career confidential: How to turn failures into pure gold   

Failure is not something we are taught to embrace. It’s something that we have to deal with because this is life, and life is full of failures. But what smart careerists do to handle failure is something akin to taking hay and spinning it into gold.

Filed Under: Career advancement Tagged With: career advice, failure

Writing compelling cover letters that get attention

August 10, 2016 by Dawn Rasmussen 4 Comments

Writing compelling cover letters that get attention

A cover letter should emotionally connect the reader to your experience in a way that shows why you are the perfect candidate for the job.

Filed Under: Career advancement Tagged With: cover letters, employment, résumé

LinkedIn profile tips you need to know

July 6, 2016 by Dawn Rasmussen 1 Comment

LinkedIn profile tips you need to know

Tips to keep your LinkedIn profile optimized and easy to find.

Filed Under: Career advancement, Networking and lead-generation Tagged With: linkedin, networking

Résumé reboot: What you need to know

June 20, 2016 by Dawn Rasmussen Leave a Comment

Résumé reboot: What you need to know

A résumé reboot means keeping your document current, whether you are actively looking or not. Résumés are vibrant, active documents that keep you on track to your career destination. Here are some immediate things you can do to keep your document up to date and forward-facing.

Filed Under: Career advancement, Proving your worth, PYM Blog Tagged With: employment, résumé

Catapult your career in the meeting industry

May 2, 2016 by Dawn Rasmussen Leave a Comment

Catapult your career in the meeting industry

Last month, I spoke to the MPI Philadelphia Area Chapter’s Educational Institute, and one of the recurring themes that I heard during that presentation and in follow-up discussions is that a whole lot of meeting professionals feel stuck in their careers. Sometimes, there simply isn’t anywhere to go up; other times, BossZilla is standing in […]

Filed Under: Career advancement, Proving your worth Tagged With: professional growth, volunteer

Understand your own professional development (how novel!)

April 11, 2016 by Dawn Rasmussen Leave a Comment

Understand your own professional development (how novel!)

As an industry, we are in charge of planning professional development for others. But when it comes to our own professional development, many meeting industry professionals don’t understand the application to their own careers.

Filed Under: Career advancement Tagged With: Advice & Best Practices, career management and professional development, education

Make strategic meetings management (SMM) your best career buddy

March 14, 2016 by Dawn Rasmussen 1 Comment

Make strategic meetings management (SMM) your best career buddy

Strategic Meetings Management (SMM) is your best career buddy because it provides quantifiable, clear progress to goals, and everyone should realize that in order to know how much you are worth, you have to know the value you have provided to the organization.

Filed Under: Financial management, Proving ROI Tagged With: Career Buddy, career management, Improving Business Performance, Jobs Metric, key performance indicators, management, meeting, metrics, smm, strategic meeting management, strategic meetings management, strategic meetings managment







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