Victoria Andrew

Leveraging a BFA in Fiction Writing and advanced certifications in creative writing, Victoria Andrew offers a competitive edge and unique value. She also is a Certified Professional Resume Writer and CEO of Career Seeker's Advocate (www.careerseekersadvocate.com). She blogs extensively on career management topics. She also is an avid reader and publishes prolific book reviews.
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Coach Joel Quenneville's Secret to Success

Coach Joel Quenneville’s secret to success is driven by an insatiable desire to win, as he yells and screams on the bench and radiates with energy and passion to see his team succeed. Coach Quenneville is already creating a legacy by having coached the Chicago Blackhawks to the 2010 and 2013 Stanley Cup Championships. In his 454 regular season games, the Blackhawks have landed a record of 268-127-59.
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Toot Your Own Horn for Career Success

It often takes many years for job seekers to come into realization of how self-promotion catalyzes career success. We are not referring to flamboyant self-promotion that could potentially hinder a career, but of the meticulously planned self-advocacy that optimizes your achievements and promotions. Even if we are of the top 1% who have someone high enough on the corporate food chain to act as a champion on our behalf, they could never accurately articulate our accomplishments.

CHAPTER 1_We're All Dead

“God, I am fucking amazing!” I found myself exclaiming while admiring my decaying flesh in my hand mirror. While waiting in the ZomMobile for my zombie minions to get what’s left of their hair done at the Curl Up and Dye hair salon in Chicago, I’ve come to the striking epiphany that having a major lesion across my rotting cheek after last night’s victorious horde attack is quite becoming, I must say. I look intimidating yet mysterious in a chivalrous way.
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Preparing Students for the Work Force

An Interview with Dr. Barbara S. Andrew, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy of William Patterson University VICTORIA ANDREW: What, in your opinion, is the most important thing a college student should do to prepare for the workforce prior to graduation? BARBARA ANDREW: Go to the career center on campus. Preferably, students should go during their freshman year. Yet, even if you have already graduated, you can still go to the career center.
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The Power of a Positive Attitude

“Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be.” ― Anthony Robbins “Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible.” ― Rodolfo Costa Throughout my many years as a certified professional resume writer, I have discovered that the most successful candidates are those that embrace a positive attitude throughout their career campaigns.
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Personal Mission Statement

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” – Marianne Williamson As a resume writer, one of the first questions we ask a new client is, “What is your ideal job?” Even though we interview high-level executives with decades of experience in their chosen field, it is surprising how many spontaneously reveal their unfulfilled dreams. Sometimes their unrealized passions contradict societal paradigms of success and/or diverge from the ca
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Social Media Marketing for New Grads

At its foundation, social media is a set of technologies and channels targeted at forming and enabling a potentially massive community of participants to productively collaborate. IT tools supporting collaboration have existed for decades. Yet, social-media technologies, such as social networking, wikis and blogs, enable collaboration on a much grander scale and support tapping the power of the collective in ways previously unachievable.
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Objective Statement vs Powerful Branding Statement

According to the outdated format of resume writing, a candidate for a new job should open their resume with an objective statement to describe their personal and professional goals. However with the aggressive and innovative methodologies of Words Prevail, we have reinvented the concept of an objective statement and have transformed the practice into a “branding statement” for the resumes we compose for our clients.
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Book Review for “A Mutiny in Time” by James Dashner

In “Mutiny in Time” (Book 1 of a new Scholastic alternative-history, time travel series entitled “Infinity Ring”), history is broken, and a long-feared Cataclysm seems imminent. The capital of the United States is Boston. Lincoln’s face is nowhere to be seen on Mount Rushmore. Everyone is buzzing about the French royal wedding. And an international group of men and women known as the “SQ” is more powerful than kings, richer than nations, and more fearsome than armies.
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Review of The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The towering tens are striped in white and black, no golds or crimsons to be seen. … Within hours everyone in town has heard about it. … It is impressive and unusual news, the sudden appearance of a mysterious circus."
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Review of California Girl Chronicles by Michelle Gamble-Risley

My impassioned love for literature encompasses a vast diversity of genres, however I have never deemed a work of contemporary romance to be worthy of my rapt attention until I discovered  California Girl Chronicles: Brea and The City of Plastic at the Miami Book Fair International. Not only is this infinitely entertaining escapade worthy of rapt attention, it is also worthy of tremendous praise. Michelle Gamble-Risley has revolutionized romantic literature and taken it to new heights.
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One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde: A Book Review

One of Our Thursdays Is Missing by Jasper Fforde. 362 pages. Viking. $25.95 “The remaking was one of those moments when one felt a part of literature and not just carried along within it. In less than ten minutes, the entire fabric of the BookWorld was radically altered. The old system was swept away, and everything was changed forever. But the group of people to whom it was ultimately beneficial remained gloriously unaware: the readers. "
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