Pacific Consultants Group - Editorial Consulting

09/28/2020

Haven't done a "book report" or "book review" in a bunch of years.... but here's one .... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/book-review-clifford-stolls-cuckoos-egg-tracking-spy-through-gardner/

04/30/2020

Fired FBI Director James Comey won’t be sleeping well tonight and he deserves every bit of lost sleep. Documents have been released proving that there was an FBI setup of General Flynn. The documents and the proof of a setup brought to light the video below where Comey boldly brags about how he se...

02/06/2020

Analogies help with expressing concepts that might be otherwise seem hard to understand. So, let's go with some analogies -- comparing two different ways of how you might buy certain kinds of services.

02/06/2020

My most recent "article" I wrote for LinkedIn ... sometimes they call it "exposure" ... that's what I'm trying to get on my "articles" ...

Analogies help with expressing concepts that might be otherwise seem hard to understand. So, let's go with some analogies -- comparing two different ways of how you might buy certain kinds of services.

02/06/2020

Point of View During a Job Interview Over my writing career, I've heard my share of strange questions during employment interviews. During a government contracting job in which my employer lost the contract and the subsequent new employer at the same location was doing incoming potential staff inter

02/06/2020

The first "article" I wrote for LinkedIn. Not sure why ... but it "resonated" with me. *sigh*

Point of View During a Job Interview Over my writing career, I've heard my share of strange questions during employment interviews. During a government contracting job in which my employer lost the contract and the subsequent new employer at the same location was doing incoming potential staff inter

12/14/2019

Yup …. updated my CafePress images a little … also did some cleaning and reorganizing for the upcoming year.

Here's where my images are stored (and lots of options for goodies you can get those images on). Enjoy!

'Public profile'

06/15/2018

I'm not a recruiter (although I've tried it for a bunch of years -- different industry). And, because in my field being a contractor with lots of short gigs is sort of the norm nowadays, I don't have any problems with recruiters contacting me about new opportunities. Most recruiters contacting me have the right approach. They don't need to apologize. They have gotten me some good gigs.

However, there are *some* who need to get a clue. If you are going to contact someone, READ THEIR PROFILE. If they are a "technical writer" or "technical editor" and live on the west coast, *DON'T* contact them about a "technician" or "engineering" job in Chicago. UNDERSTAND what the job entails and what the candidate may bring to the job. It helps if you have actually *done* the job yourself so you have a better idea of whether or not you have a match. Don't waste my time by playing games -- include the job description in your contact.

Oh, and there are some recruiters who I value because they *know* what I can do and they have gotten me jobs that were good for both of us. They are the best and I don't consider them as my "recruiters" but moreso like my "agents". I've even volunteered to dig up jobs and pass them through my "agent" for the W-2 paperwork. My "agents" handle the pay rate and the I-9, and other employment paperwork. And I do the job and fill out the timesheet each week. Nice arrangement.

06/10/2018

S**t happens. Or, to put it more delicately, disasters will eventually find a way to get to you. How you are prepared for that eventual disaster is

06/10/2018

Wrote another article for LinkedIn .... based on one of my former Squidoo Lenses / HubPages ... but enhanced with new information and photos for LI --

S**t happens. Or, to put it more delicately, disasters will eventually find a way to get to you. How you are prepared for that eventual disaster is

05/15/2018

Information Security Policies, Procedures, Guidelines, and Standards When an organization has well-established policies, procedures, guidelines, and

05/15/2018

Just cooked up a new story on LinkedIn (LI) ... Does your company have information security policies? Here's a discussion on that:

Information Security Policies, Procedures, Guidelines, and Standards When an organization has well-established policies, procedures, guidelines, and