How’s your executive job search working for you? If you’re spending all or most of your time responding to job board postings and waiting to be offered interviews, chances are, not much is happening. You’re conducting a RE-active job search, instead of a PRO-active one. This may be a …
10 Ways I Use Twitter to Build My Personal Brand
Twitter is one of my favorite brand communications tools. The strategies I use are ones I advise my c-level executive clients will also work for their job-hunting and career management efforts. Here are 10 ways Twitter helps me communicate and build my personal brand: 1. My Twitter bio contains …
Does Your Twitter Bio Pack an Executive Brand Punch?
Twitter allows you just 160 characters in your bio to tell the world who you are. Granted, it's not easy to pack everything you feel people need to know about you into such a small package. Carefully craft what you put there to resonate with the people you want to attract. First, define your …
Search Executive Jobs With Twitter Lists
Are you still on the fence about the value of Twitter and hesitate diving in? Maybe this will change your mind. Thousands of top companies post job openings in real time and recruit executive candidates through Twitter. You can find these employers by joining Twitter and searching for them, and …
LinkedIn Helps You Find the Right Twitter People to Follow
Are you like many of my c-level and senior executive clients – a Twitter noobie, or thinking of diving in, and having a hard time figuring out who to follow? You know that the more quality people you follow, the more value you're likely to derive from Twitter. But how and where to find them? Here …
Give Twitter 15 Minutes a Day, Land Your Next Executive Job
Impossible you say? Not according to my friends and colleagues Susan Britton Whitcomb, Chandlee Bryan, and Deb Dib, the authors of "The Twitter Job Search Guide: Find a Job and Advance Your Career in Just 15 Minutes a Day". This book is a powerhouse of information and practical advice on …
Daily Personal Branding Tips from the Experts
In a guest post on Ryan Rancatore's Personal Branding 101, Mohammed Altaee asked 15 Twitter personal branding experts to contribute their top tips in "Personal Branding Tasks You Can Do Every Day". Here are 9 of their sure-fire suggestions: 1. Continually hone your skill through self …
10 Ways to Build Your Personal Brand Online Without a Blog
A new client of mine understood that he needed to pump up his online presence. A Google search for his name yielded a dismal number of relevant results, plus he had a common name and the little that was out there about him was lost in a sea of same-named people. To win at executive job search in …
5 Tactics to Land a Green Industry Executive Job
These days, the green industry is a tantalizing carrot dangling in front of people who are stagnating in jobs in anemic industries or finding diminishing opportunities while actively job-hunting within their niche. Over this decade green jobs will open wide, as companies, organizations and all of …
Does Your Online Identity Scream “Hire Me”?
Think your online presence, or lack of it, doesn’t factor much into executive hiring decision-making? Think again. Given two equal candidates, in terms of skill sets, education, work history, and all around good fit for the job, recruiters and hiring professionals are likely to choose the one with …