Personal branding has somewhat mainstreamed and is becoming more accepted in job search. But I still see too many job seekers confused about what branding actually is. It’s no wonder they’re confused, with so much debate and misinformation floating around social media and traditional media. Do you …
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My Executive Branding and Job Search Ebook
What an accomplished, gratifying feeling I have. I just finished my first ebook! After a lot of hard work, I'm thrilled to finally hold it virtually in my hands and launch it today. 23 Ways You Sabotage Your Executive Job Search and How Your Brand Will Help You Land . . . A practical guide to …
Executive Job Search: Is NUNA (No Unemployed Need Apply) Illegal?
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission held a hearing last week to discuss whether refusing to hire unemployed people is illegal. Abigail Field described what constitutes illegal discrimination in her Daily Finance article, Unemployed Need Not Apply: Is It Illegal to Refuse to Consider Hiring …
Get Your Executive Brand Into Your Email Signature
If you’re a busy executive, you do a lot of emailing. In job search, you’re emailing even more than usual. You’re working on (or should be) connecting with your network to uncover job leads and the hiring decision makers at your target companies with whom you need to connect. You’ll be sending them …
55 Top Job Search Experts To Follow On Twitter
Don't have time for Twitter? Think it has no value? One very good reason to dive into Twitter if you're in executive job search, or think you may be soon, is to learn about today's challenging job search landscape from the experts, by following them and listening. . . . Even if you do nothing …
Executive Job Search: Targeting the Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000
Surely you know that successful job search campaigns start with identifying a target list of companies where your expertise and ROI value will be a good mutual fit? Good. You have a list. No List? Check out my post, Executive Job Search: Research Your Target Employers. If Fortune 1000 companies …
I’m Writing an eBook on Executive Branding and Job Search
Over a year ago I decided to write an ebook to guide executives through defining their brand and navigating today’s job search. After all, I’d been blogging and writing articles about this for several years. I had lots of good content to work from. Most of the work was done, right? I figured it …
Brand New Year – Time for A Brand New Executive Brand?
The start of any new year is a good time to look back at your achievements and contributions over the past year, and take a fresh look at your career moving forward. For healthy career management, it’s always wise to have your resume, bio, LinkedIn profile and other career marketing materials …
Best Executive Job Search Tips for 2011
About.com's job search expert Alison Doyle recently put out a query to a number of career strategists and founders of leading job sites for job search tips for an upcoming article. Here are seven of the eleven responses she received, with advice on how to land your next great gig. Go to her …
Americans Embrace Personal Branding for Job Search
The recent Kelly Global Workforce Index, which surveyed approximately 134,000 people, including almost 13,000 in the U.S., indicates that personal branding has become important to Americans as the way to differentiate their ROI value and accelerate job search. The study focused on the traits and …