March 8th was the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, first celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. In tribute, Krishna De (@KrishnaDe on Twitter), a fellow Reach Personal Branding Strategist, has compiled a free Slideshare report, 100 Voices in Business. Reaching out …
Executive Career Management
Executive Job Search: Update Your LinkedIn Network
Get yourself into a regular routine (say, once a week or a few times a month) of posting status updates to your profile. Your updates sit at the top of your profile, so will likely be one of the first things people see when reviewing your profile. Your LinkedIn network is notified of your …
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 …
Executive Job Search: Are Your Target Employers on Twitter?
Many top employers are busy on Twitter – posting jobs and real-time news about the company, people, products and services. Your target employers may be there. Want to find out the latest news about them, practically as it happens? For the past year or so, Susan P. Joyce of Job-Hunt.org, has been …
How To Land an Executive Job in 2011
If you’re about to start job-hunting, or fear you will be soon, you may not be aware of how different job search is today than even a few years ago. If you’re already mired in a job search, you probably know that things have changed drastically since the last time you were in a career …
World’s Top 10 Best Corporate Blogs
Mark Schaefer (@markwschaefer on Twitter), a consultant, author, and college educator, and Executive Director of Schaefer Marketing Solutions, set out to identify the 10 best corporate blogs in the world. He slogged through the good, the bad and the blah, reviewing hundreds of corporate …
How Top CEOs Use Twitter for Branding
Business Week's article, CEOs' Take on Twitter, compares 18 savvy chief executives who include the microblogging site in their personal brand and company brand communications plan. Among the CEOs they looked at who make tweeting part of their daily routine are leaders in marketing, publishing, and …
Tim Tyrell-Smith’s New Book: 30 Ideas of Successful Job Search
Tim Tyrell-Smith has just released his book, "30 Ideas. The Ideas of Successful Job Search". Written as "advice to a friend", the book is loaded with easily digestible and actionable tips for today's job search, from the perspective of a job seeker. A 22-year veteran marketing executive, former …
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 …
LinkedIn Guide for Personal Branding and Executive Job Search
UPDATE !!! — For updated information on using LinkedIn for personal branding and executive job search, go to my 3-part series, starting here How to Use the New LinkedIn for Executive Personal Branding. — <><><><><><><><><><> — No …