Book Pick of the Week: B.R.A.N.D. Before You Resume'

Graciela Tiscareño-Sato, a decorated Latina aviator in the U.S. Air Force, successfully transitioned from military life to marketing manager. Her powerfully simplistic and much-needed guidebook, B.R.A.N.D. Before Your Resumé, provides actionable tips to help veterans achieve post-military success. Together with her companion online course, Graciela empowers fellow veterans to communicate their unique value to civilian organizations.

After nearly a decade as an Air Force aviator, Tiscareño-Sato is now a marketing professional and entrepreneur who knows first-hand the military-to-civilian transition chaos that all service members must navigate as they become veterans. Her groundbreaking new book, B.R.A.N.D. Before Your Resumé, and companion online course deliver a solution that is described by Tiscareño-Sato as “counterculture to the institutionalized, ineffective, outdated way the DoD and DoL ‘prepare’ people to exit the service via the Transition Assistance Program.”

B.R.A.N.D. Before Your Resumé readers will complete the “extracting product attributes” exercise, see nearly 30 examples of great branding created by veterans Tiscareño-Sato has personally coached, and learn how to write their own AUTHENTIC personal branding to influence their intended target audience. Tiscareño-Sato teaches readers a repeatable marketing messaging process that will be useful for years to come.

Asked about the book’s title, Tiscareño-Sato said, “I created the B.R.A.N.D. acronym to emphasize that military veterans must first Become Relevant, Authentic, Noticeable and Differentiated, instead of writing resumés that nobody will read. We are professionals with diverse, transferable skills earned during our military service. We must, however, first intrigue potential employers and networking partners with our distinctive value.”

The book has already reached No. 1 on Amazon’s Hot New Releases in the Military Family category, and the Military Writers Society of America recognized B.R.A.N.D. Before Your Resumé with a 2021 Silver Medal.

If you’re a veteran or transitioning service member who has difficulty communicating the distinctive leadership experiences and achievements earned on active duty, Tiscareño-Sato’s guidebook and online course can equip you with the skills you need to demonstrate your worth, secure those job interviews, and achieve post-military success.

Author Graciela Tiscareño-Sato is an Air Force veteran, award-winning author and bilingual public speaker who has coached over 5,000 veterans, service members and professionals with live and virtual Authentic Personal Branding workshops. She is a highly decorated USAF aviator and was a 2014 White House Champion of Change honoree, which recognizes individuals, businesses and organizations whose extraordinary accomplishments positively affect communities. She completed her Air Force ROTC Aerospace Studies and her degree in Environmental Design/Architecture from U.C. Berkeley as a scholarship cadet. During Operation Southern Watch, she became the first Latina Air Force aviator to earn an Air Medal for combat air operations.

Kindle Free Pick of the Week: Happier At Work: How to Love the Job You Already Have

Happier at Work!

You can love the job you currently have.

Discover the five steps you can take to bring you happiness in the job you have

Figure out how to apply these five steps to your own situation to increase your happiness at work

Your Fears
•I could spend pages describing all the reasons people give me of why they should stay in their current job.
•Do any of these sounds familiar?
•I can’t afford to leave a well-paid job
•I won’t find another job
•I won’t find another job as well-paid/convenient/close to home
•I don’t have the right qualifications to do what I really want to do
•I’m too old/young
•I’m the wrong race/gender
•I need the experience
•It’s a small industry – leaving will damage my reputation
•I don’t want ‘them’ to win

These thoughts can feel overwhelming and all too real. They may be keeping you stuck in a job that leaves you tired, sick, frustrated and miserable. They keep you where you are.

There’s a better reason to stay.

Mounting research shows that happiness is not a destination or something you are born with. It is a product of the effort you put into it.

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Company Advertises 'Crap' Job Online

A British company looking for a new position has advertised the vacancy as a "crap job".

Posted on The Stage, a publication for the performing arts industry, the opening also claims to pay "great money".

Company Mistakenly Fires All 1,300 Employees

A British company sent and email to all 1,300 employees lettign them kknow that they were fired, when the email was intended for only one worker.

Aviva Investors' human resources department realized its mistake and recalled the offending message 25 minutes later and soon afterwards sent out another email apologizing to staff for the error.

An email which was intended for a member of staff who was leaving today was accidentally sent to all Aviva Investors staff worldwide, a company spokesperson stated.

"People were pretty quickly aware of the fact that this was a mistake ... I don't believe any of our staff would have seen it really as anything other than the mistake that it was," the spokesperson added.

The email was a standard message sent to people leaving the company, covering things such as handing back company equipment and confidentiality rules.

It was reported weeks ago that Aviva would shed about 160 jobs in a cost-cutting move.