Right before I speak with potential clients for the first time, I Google their names. This is exactly what many hiring professionals and executive recruiters do when they’re assessing candidates. What I typically find is a very meager online footprint, with very little social networking. They'll …
Executive Career Management
Working With Executive Recruiters
Are you confused about the different kinds of recruiters, why you should connect with them, and what they can do for you? Did you know that internal recruiters and external recruiters — either retained or on contingency — help you in different ways? As an executive, you've probably worked with …
Job Search Fizzling? Maybe It’s Your Executive Resume
For the past several weeks a lovely cardinal has been hanging around one of my office windows, alternately perched on a branch of a nearby shrub and smashing into the window. He does this for hours at a time, every day. He could be thinking the window is an open space he can get through or that …
Is Your LinkedIn Profile 100% Complete?
You may be wondering what "100% complete" is, and why it even matters. When your LinkedIn profile meets their criteria for completeness, your profile is more likely to land higher in search results. Your visibility increases dramatically. Executive recruiters and hiring decision makers at your …
Top 10 Executive Resume Branding Tips
(The following is my latest article as the Personal Branding Expert at Job-Hunt.org.) You're suddenly facing a job search, so you rush right to your resume (if you can find it) to update it. But wait. You may not be ready to tackle your resume yet. If it's been several years since you revisited …
I Just Earned the Certified Master Resume Writer (CMRW) Credential
Despite the impact of the digital age on executive job search, career professionals will tell you that a targeted, value proposition-driven resume is still one of the most critical elements in any successful search. The resume is NOT dead. You still need to have one. But the Internet, social …
The Biggest Mistake Twitter Newbies Make
You're skeptical, but you've heard that Twitter can help you with executive job search, so you decide to take the plunge and set up an account, even though you have no idea what to do with Twitter. You've selected @yourname, or a variation, for your username and popped in your email address. Then …
Using LinkedIn For Confidential Executive Job Search
Do you have the same fear that many of my c-level executive clients have when I tell them they need a branded, 100% complete LinkedIn profile and to fully leverage all the social network has to offer? If they're employed, they worry that their employer, or someone at work, will see their activity …
How Good Is Your Executive Brand Elevator Pitch?
Have you ever been trapped in a one-on-one with someone you've just met, maybe at a networking event, who over-anxiously monopolizes the conversation, making you listen endlessly to their career achievements and goals? While you're trying to figure out how to extricate yourself from the agony, …
Just Joined the New Work Coach Cafe Team
I was thrilled for Susan P. Joyce, my esteemed colleague and online job search guru, when she told me last month that she was about to purchase Work Coach Cafe, a widely-read and highly respected job search and career hub. I was even more thrilled when Susan invited me to join her new team of …