Resumes and job searches: Fun With a Purpose
The fun is coming to an end.
My tenure on the Career Resumes blog ends in mid-September, just shy of the two-year mark. Don’t worry, I’m not gonna get all sappy on here – instead, we’re going to make these last eight posts as useful as possible, and then gracefully step aside for the next great Career Resumes blogger.
How, you ask? By covering one of eight categories in the blog, and putting down the top 3-5 best pieces of advice, tips, direction, insights, and answers I have to offer, have discovered and shared these past 22 months, and desperately want to leave you with before I go.
Since I mentioned fun at the outset, let’s start with our “Fun With a Purpose” category. My whole philosophy about this in relation to our executive, management, and professional audience is this: If you don’t enjoy what you’re doing, is it worth doing?
Of course, that’s just the personal side of things. There’s a business side, too, and here’s my take on that. Rather than promoting goofiness for the sake of wasting time, the point was also to show that laughter and fun is just as important to the success of an employee and a business as the metrics.
With this in mind, here are three previous posts I’d like to flag for you, to remind you that fun makes you better as an employee and as a manager, and makes your company better as well.
1. Work and Humor Do Mix, “Ninety-seven percent of professionals polled feel it is important for managers to have a sense of humor.”
2. Kathleen Passanisi, a humorist and speaker who’s entertained audiences at Boeing and Blue Cross/Blue Shield, believes you need to have a laugh now more than ever.
3. How Fun is Productive: “Imagine a work world where people love their work environment, and they are calm, stress-free and happy all day long. People who are in good spirits are more likely to be productive. Their mental attitude produces increased oxygen, endorphins, and blood flow to the brain, which enables them to think more clearly and creatively…” (our post is here)
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