If you view your resume summary as a first -
person story with the first - person pronouns removed, you'll end up with concise sentence fragments, which, in this case, are preferred over complete sentences.
Not exact matches
I don't want public attention because I don't want the
story to be about me... I want it to be about what the US government is doing... I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for
people around the world
with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.
Of course, it's a classic bit of political opportunism, and gives the PM a well - timed «I'm a man of the
people»
story to tell: instead of hobnobbing
with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting
with Jacques and Jane Canuck.
The Journal
story said
people «familiar
with the matter» had confirmed that Time Inc. hired the banks to review proposals and that a sale or deal is not guaranteed.
When
people act in conflict
with their values, many suppress and deny the conflict, telling themselves
stories.
But, thanks to our one - on - one meeting
with Forleo, we realized there's a heap of potential we've not yet explored — especially because our business helps
people write their own incredible
stories!
Steve's heartwarming
story certainly endears
people to him and gives them a reason to do business
with All Vacuum Center over the big - box stores, but it's not enough.
People pay attention to
stories, especially
stories that resonate
with their personal pain and conflicts and solutions that provide relief and pleasure.
«She really understands social media marketing, and her
story resonates
with people,» says Zapis, who formerly operated radio stations that included black hair - care companies among their advertisers, so he is very familiar
with the market.
The narrative transportation theory, as it's called, states that
people may feel like they have been teleported to the world of their character in a
story they can identify
with.
When I met Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul) at a book signing, I shared a
story with him about a signing I did at which the only
person who showed up was my mother.
The event opened the floodgates to some amazing
stories from these
people, who, it turns out, wanted to share their
stories with other veterans even more than they wanted to promote their businesses.
Great listeners have uncanny ability to listen intuitively to the other
person's
story, searching conversations for depth, meaning and understanding
with the other
person's needs in mind.
What you see as a couple lines on your resume is actually thousands of hours spent
with a group of
people with values,
stories and institutional memories.
Leaders who master the practice of good listening will be more apt to intuitively understand the other
person's
story by searching conversations for depth and meaning, digging deeper than casual listeners, and getting to the root of an issue in order to come up
with the right solution.
Levy actually plays
with the way he tells
stories and introduces himself either in
person or over email to see how
people react, and then adjusts accordingly.
Successful
people have
stories of the challenges that they overcame
with creative solutions.
(Term Sheet's tipbox is already filling up
with stories...) In some cases, it may not involve women exposing these
people publicly via the press.
People pay attention to
stories that are relevant, so buttress your
stories and signposts
with easily understood but pertinent facts that are quantifiable, verifiable, memorable, and dramatic.
A Human - Voiced Resumebrands you as a
person with a path and a
story, not a disembodied bundle of skills.
People's reactions to this
story clearly have a lot to do
with the fact that the individual involved is a woman.
People want me to review their travel videos, but it's just a series of beautiful landscapes
with no
story or personality.
Well, to make a long
story short while referencing a great episode from Seinfeld, we employed a special team of
people to «retrieve» the reports for us, and «yadda yadda yadda,» we appeared at pretrial
with these ultra-damaging reports in hand.
He said he would be inviting «leading conservatives» and
people from all across the political spectrum to talk
with him and share their points of view about the issues raised by the Gizmodo
story.
Also, when you spend a lot of time
with people you tend to notice patterns in how they tell
stories and what was reassuring to us was to hear a source tell the same
story the same way months later, as opposed to the facts always changing.
Outside the Inc. family, we hope
stories like his remind
people how critical risk takers and strivers are to our prosperity and how essential it is for free enterprise to remain open to anyone
with an honest dream.
A classic example of this idea is that you'll have an easier time remembering a
story about someone who bakes than a
person with the last name Baker.
We never asked them to write a
story; we simply organized a great meal and shared some drinks
with a group of
people interested in what we were up to.
I was able to get a fairly senior source to quite unexpectedly help out on that
story and that opened up some doors
with people.
People not only remember the
stories with amazing clarity, they also remember the actionable advice I give to boost their success.
User / Submitter acts as a go - between, connecting
people who want their
stories to feature prominently on Digg
with users who can vote for them.
They can keep in touch
with friends, look at photos of their vacations, read news
stories they suggest, play time - wasting games, invite
people to their parties and speak and be heard.
The headquarters could be between 70 and 75
stories, depending on how wide its footprint is, said a
person with knowledge of the company's plans.
Almost 49,000
people are diagnosed
with the disease every year, and every one of them has an equally sad
story to tell about the diagnosis.
Be truthful and trust that your
story will resonate
with the right
people.
Take my word for it, if you're not out there and in control of your
story, to the extent that it's even possible any more, the vacuum will readily be filled by any number of other
people — employees, ex-employees, competitors, advocates for a million causes, etc. —
with their own good and bad axes to grind.
Let
people know that you have inspired others to share their
stories so that your followers can feel comfortable sharing
with you.
Just ask Farhad Mohit, founder and CEO of Flipagram, an L.A. - based content platform that enables
people to create and share visual
stories using their own photos and videos and pair them
with legally licensed music on their phones.
I saw the
story in the Wall Street Journal Mansion section about Moraga and realized that I had met the owner 20 or 25 years ago
with President Reagan at a social party, although he wasn't a very political
person.
Even
people that are great at telling
stories to family and friends somehow in their content marketing don't manage to capture the imagination and attention to get their point across
with resonance and impact.
LA is a city of 16 million
people,
with a lot of success
stories.»
Reese's list of the top 20 grammatical errors
people commonly make was one of Inc.'s most popular columns last month,
with readers sharing the
story on social media nearly 90,000 times and offering plenty of their own pet peeves regarding how others use the English language.
Today's must - read
story is from Fortune «s Leigh Gallagher and it features an exclusive interview
with Maren Kate Donovan, founder and CEO of virtual assistant startup Zirtual, who talked about flawed financial projections and what caused her company to lay off 400
people earlier this week before announcing that Zirtual will be acquired by Startups.co.
On Thursday, Facebook announced a plan to deal
with the proliferation of fake news: Third - party fact - checkers will flag what they think are false
stories, and then Facebook will decide whether or not to demote them in
people's News Feeds.
According to a
story in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, his reasoning goes like this: «Call me opportunistic; I thought I could get better
people with less competition because we were willing to understand the skills and capabilities that many of these women had.»
Dr. Betsy Kennon of Pittsburgh also contributes the
story of Scooter, who was almost killed by a car but now brings joy to
people also dealing
with disabilities.
It only launched late last month, and already the Tumblr blog Sh-t
People Say to Women Directors (& Other Women in Film) is deluged
with horror
stories about working in Hollywood.
«We tell
stories that really move
people and that they want to share
with everyone they know.»
«If they're telling a
story to a group, and you're in that group, very often if they like you, you're the
person they won't make eye contact
with,» he noted.
Trump initially thought Flynn could survive the controversy, according to a
person with direct knowledge of the president's views, but a pair of explosive
stories in The Washington Post in recent days made the situation untenable.