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Daily Camera.com: : Boulder & County News - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:55:12 +0000

This is a huge leadership failure.

Daily Camera.com: : City officials send \'cease and desist\' letter to Boulder pilot - Boulder Daily Camera

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:50:38 +0000

Stay strong Barney. It's pretty horrifying to see what can happen to a property owner when the city decides it's not convenient to uphold existing agreements.

Daily Camera.com: : Guest column: Molly, what have they done to you? - Boulder Daily Camera

Sun, 4 Dec 2011 16:36:11 +0000

If you are female, you aren't responsible for the safety of your child, although you know your spouse is using drugs, you cover up and try to hide injuries to the child (a bruised forehead on a newborn doesn't alarm you?), you call your lawyer from the very hospital room where your infant is being treated for life-threatening injuries and talk with the lawyer about defense strategies -- if you're female, this is fine? I object. It is sad when women are abused, and when children are victimized and grow up to victimize other people. Virtually everyone in prison is a victim of some kind. We still hold them accountable. I'm horrified that we would believe a woman is less responsible for protecting her infant because she's been abused by her husband. When do we talk about a hurt and then a dead baby?

Daily Camera.com: : Molly Midyette denied new trial in baby\'s death - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:16:40 +0000

As a woman and mom I find your comments very disturbing. Just because I'm a woman, I don't expect to get a free pass if I allow my spouse to abuse and kill my kid. Just because I'm abused, I don't expect to skate for picking the wrong guy, tolerating and enabling his drug use, having a baby with him, failing to protect the baby, covering up for the abuse (bruises on baby's head etc.) and failing to take the baby for medical care. I believe that women and moms, even abused ones, have the same ability to act as men, and the same responsibility to do so. I hate to think what would happen to the justice system if women could simply say "But I was abused" and walk away from their responsibilities. There are all sorts of mental illness in the world. We don't say "Well, this person is alcoholic" and absolve them of their crimes. Spousal abuse and domestic violence are horrible things. Nearly every person in prison has been victimized. That is sad, and those people are still responsible for their actions.

Daily Camera.com: : Molly Midyette denied new trial in baby\'s death - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:31:39 +0000

"To have a baby die..." as though one day the baby just inexplicably died. There's a reason Molly is in jail.

Daily Camera.com: : Liz Ryan: A job-seeker\'s salary history is his business - Boulder Daily Camera

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:59:08 +0000

No worries freetheweird, it is easy to reach the hiring manager directly and circumvent the whole Black Whole channel. I've written a bunch of columns about handling the interviewer's questions about salary -- this comment box isn't big enough to go into that unfortunately. I really don't want you filling out online applications - most of them never get read. If you join our discussion group at http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/asklizryan you can post a question about avoiding the Black Hole and/or a question about responding to the question "What were you earning at your last job?" -- we talk about both those things all the time.

Daily Camera.com: : Money Magazine names Boulder County a top place to find work - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:46:32 +0000

There are decent jobs to be found in Boulder County, but not (at the moment) with IBM and Ball Aerospace. The article relies on out-of-date information. Most of the decent jobs to be had around here now are with small-to-medium-sized employers.

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Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:52:24 +0000

You seriously can't see how protecting children is different from prohibiting men and men (or women and women) to fall in love and get married? Children are deemed to be people who need to be protected, because they are little and can't look out for themselves entirely. That's the big difference. Obviously. No one on this board suggested that everything that has ever been illegal, should be made legal now. They've suggested that society moves forward, and that norms shift over time. It was once illegal for women to own property. We've evolved since then.

Daily Camera.com: : LIZ RYAN: How to compete with an untraditional resume - Boulder Daily Camera

Wed, 9 Sep 2009 04:07:24 +0000

Hi UAN, there are tons of examples and how-to job-search advice articles in our discussion group archives (http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/asklizryan for our global group, or http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/frontrangecareer... for our local group) but the Daily Camera column is not the best place for step-by-step instructions or examples because of space limitations. Thanks! Liz

Daily Camera.com: : LIZ RYAN: How to compete with an untraditional resume - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 8 Sep 2009 23:51:00 +0000

Here is a testimonial from a participant in a workshop earlier this summer: "Liz...this stuff works! Your sessions have truly helped me make the adjustments I've needed to make in order to be "seen" out there and also set myself apart from the pack. I just had an interview this past Monday for a Director of Marketing position and next Tuesday, I have an interview for a Senior Strategic Marketing and Business Development Consultant position. I also have a fourth interview scheduled for a VP, Americas Marketing position. Without getting too wordy here, all I want to say is that, before getting involved with your workshops, I have never had to look for work. This is the first time I've ever been unemployed. That, in my opinion, is a blessing, and also a curse. When you're working, you don't spend the time you need to spend on continually reinventing yourself and your package. Even though I've hired people and looked at thousands of resumes, I found it very difficult to clearly focus my own efforts to get results. Now, with a few simple adjustments that you recommeded to the our group, I will have had four face-to-face interviews in a month's time. I want to continue making adjustments so I can increase my odds even more. But, for now, I just can't thank you enough for your help and the results your workshops have created so far. Thanks Liz!" --- You can learn more about the Camera workshop series at http://www.dailycamera.com/careerreboot

Daily Camera.com: : LIZ RYAN: How to compete with an untraditional resume - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:10:16 +0000

I prefer to spend my time helping real people get real jobs - more satisfying!

Daily Camera.com: : LIZ RYAN: How to compete with an untraditional resume - Boulder Daily Camera

Tue, 8 Sep 2009 18:27:37 +0000

Thanks for the comments - UAN, I was responding to the fellow with the non-cookie-cutter resume, so I didn't list the large Boulder County employers who wouldn't give his resume the time of day - but here are some of them: Sun, Ball, IBM, Covidien, Level 3, InfoPrint, Medtronic. In general, the bigger the company, the more traditional a resume needs to be. I'm going to have to disagree with the Village Idiot, because people are getting jobs every day with non-traditional backgrounds. One of my friends got a job last week after 12 years out of the workforce, and her years in the workforce were not in the slightest way a standard up-the-corporate-ladder progression. Another friend got a job this Spring with one of the most-highly-regarded local firms, and she hadn't worked in ten years before that. Decently paid jobs for non-cookie-cutter job seekers are not as sparse as you might think. The unemployment rate for people with degrees is five percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Companies are starved for talent - I am deluged with employers asking me "Where do I find people who can think independently, solve [marketing, operations, etc.] problems and make a difference in my business?" One of the biggest problems with the traditional resume format is that it doesn't tend to bring out much about us as people - the way we think, the way we attack issues, etc. The reason the Daily Camera is hosting the three-part workshop series for non-cookie-cutter job seekers (starts this week - the link is http://www.dailycamera.com/careerreboot) is that many people don't know how to approach a job hunt as a non-traditional jobseeker. For instance, they often spend most of their time lobbing resumes into the Black Hole of HR - a complete waste of time. They don't speak to the actual business issues (ones we can deduce, just by reading the job ad) behind the job opening. For sure Western Sky, you have to pay your bills, and so we'll talk in the workshops (as I do in my columns, and my online community for Front Range job-seekers: http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/frontrangecareer... about how to approach employers in stealth mode, that is, making your resume as acceptable to traditional employers as possible. best, Liz

Boulder Report : Business ideas sought to celebrate Boulder%u2019s 150th birthday

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:49:07 +0000

Hello! great post. I found it while searching for info on the Boulder Sesquicentennial for the Rocky Mountain Revels blog at www.rockymountainrevels.blogspot.com
I also have a Boulder-related blog at www.boulder-blog.blogspot.com
nice to know you! It is a small world - I know most of the bloggers on your list. Have a wonderful
weekend
yours
Liz Ryan