Are you job hunting now or planning a search in the near future, but afraid your employer will find out, so you’re hunting on the sly? Most of my clients are employed c-suite executives who either see signs of a possible layoff, or have become dissatisfied with their jobs and want to test the …
Executive Job Search
FREE e-Book: Personal Branding and Job Search
Career Rocketeer is offering a FREE, downloadable version of Launchpad: Your Career Search Strategy Guide (Vol. 1). Along with my contribution "8 Hot Tips for Today's Executive Resume 2.0", the 152 pages of articles include contibutions by other personal branding and careers experts: William …
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 …
Can You Work Your Passion in a Lousy Executive Job Market?
A client prospect I spoke with recently, a COO in retail, was struggling with whether or not it was time to transition away from the corporate world. He was desperately unhappy in his work, and had been for several years. Somehow, as his career progressed to the c-level, he realized he had lost …
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 …
4 Executive Job Search First Steps, Before You Write Your Resume
I can't tell you how often job-seeking executives I consult with tell me they want to pursue several diverse kinds of positions. The first time I spoke with one client, he said his focus was on Chief Operating Officer (COO) or maybe Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) or even VP of Sales and Marketing, …
10 Things to Love About Your Executive Brand
If you’re someone who thinks personal branding is just a passing fancy, a self-promotion gimmick, you’ve been paying too much attention to the barrage of misinformed voices disparaging it. The beauty of personal branding comes from defining and knowing what makes you unique and valuable, and …
You’re a C-level Executive Job Seeker and You’re NOT Blogging?
Nothing works like a blog with the domain name "yourname.com" to extend your online identity, and build credibility and visibility around your executive brand, value proposition, industry subject matter expertise, and thought leadership. Once it gains traction, yourname.com will likely be the …
ExecuNet’s 2010 Executive Job Market Intelligence Report
In 2010, personal branding, networking, and online identity management are the keys to executive job search success. A new resilience is emerging in the 150K+ executive job market. ExecuNet surveys conducted in January 2010 show "job creation increasing, recruiter confidence restored, and …
VisualCV: The Social Media Executive Resume
In a blog post last fall, personal branding and social media expert Dan Schawbel predicted that the traditional paper or digital resume will be extinct within 5 years, when all media will completely converge and recruiters will "rely 100% on the internet (and personal relationships) for …