Hey folks! I am totally excited to share some NEW news with you.

As many of you may know already, I have been assisting job seekers and many others through my resume writing services. I’ve talked about resume writing a few times on this website but my vision for CostofWork is to focus on HR related content. I love HR fundamentals and basics principles and will continue to share my insight on anything I find interesting in the world of human resources.  And although resumes has its place among HR topics I felt strongly that this resume writing campaign deserves it own outlet and voice.

So ladies and gentlemen, friends and followers, colleagues and clients – I present to you “THE RESUME CRUSADE” website. Please it out at resumecrusade.com.

This is going to be epic - I look forward to helping even more people and defining my voice in the resume writing space. And again CostofWork is not going anywhere, as we proceed to give you what you need.

Thank you and go check out ResumeCrusade.com!

Sometimes in life and business you have to deal with and own up to your decisions. This notion of consequences and repercussions (C&R) has been cyclical in my life recently. It started back in November, when someone said something very hurtful to me. They apologized – we talked about it and we’re good – but once you say something, you can’t unsay it.  Once it’s said – it’s out there. You can forgive but its hard to forget. Which reminded me of another life lesson, say what you mean and mean what you say. Own it.

C&R surfaced again in December when another friend of mine was wrestling with a major decision that would affect many relationships that we share. I cautioned my friend to be careful not to make an irrational decision – to be certain that this is what they really want to do. I’m happy that they have reconsidered (for now).  But as Alanis Morrisette so eloquently put it “Life has a funny way of sneaking up on.” Low and behold, as 2013 hit I found myself in several sticky situations with friends and partners in which words and wording could cause the teetering of the relationships/friendships.

Regrets – I Have A Few

Sometimes in life you can regret saying something – but to me the ones that hurt the most – are the ones in which you say nothing at all.  As stated, I’ve made some missteps in my life and career which has left me with a pile of regrets. I’m getting older now – wiser – So here are a couple of things I’ve learned about communicating –

1. You never know who’s listening or reading; you have to understand that everything is open to interpretation so be very careful. This goes for emails, memos and interoffice mail too.
2. You can create opportunities or destroy them with one bad communication. A timely correspondence can make or break your credibility or career.
3. People judge you by the things you say and way you say them, things you write and way you write them, and they judge the things you don’t say – use communication effectively.

Either way – say it – don’t say it – tweet it – don’t tweet it – do it or don’t do it – you have to live with the consequences and repercussions of that decision and that’s the main point. Often times we make regrettable comments or perform certain actions in which we don’t want to own up to.

Sometimes we project our anger on to others to justify our poor decisions and make ourselves feel better about the mess that we’ve created.  We do this at work and in our personal lives. We blame others, we insist that no one can relate to what we are dealing with so we close them out and alienate them. (they deserve it) The consequences and repercussions of our actions can be so heavy that it becomes too much to face – so we don’t. We let go.  Then it festers.  It becomes bigger. We hope it goes away or resolve itself…although historically, that never  EVER happens.