Seven years ago Quintessential Careers, a leading online career site, innovated Job Action Day to help all job-seekers and workers take stock of their situations, and make plans and/or take action steps to improve their careers. This year, celebrated on November 3rd, Job Action Day is all about …
Executive Networking
Twitter Personal Branding Time-Saving Tips
How to tweet wisely in about 10 to 15 minutes a day, a few times a week. In my practice, I rarely come across executive job seekers who are actively leveraging Twitter to help them land jobs. The few who even have Twitter accounts put up a few tweets initially, and then let it go. Their …
Your Personal Brand Online and the LinkedIn Privacy Dilemma
How private can you keep the changes you make to your LinkedIn profile? Here is one of the most frequently asked questions by my c-suite and senior executive clients who are in a confidential job search, and need to complete and/or update and brand their LinkedIn profiles: "How do I keep my …
2 LinkedIn Personal Branding Tips You Don’t Know
LinkedIn is undeniably the executive job-seeker's most important and powerful online personal branding tool. To improve my LinkedIn profile-building skills, I've just completed Reach Personal Branding's new Certified Social Branding Analyst program, which focuses squarely on LinkedIn …
NEW BOOK! 20 Little-Known, Insider Tips to Accelerate Executive Job Search
Is your executive job search taking too long? Are you getting too few interviews, or none at all? If you answered "Yes" to both questions, it’s time to turbo-charge your search with the advice in my new ebook: 20 Little-Known, Insider Tips to Accelerate Your Executive Job Search . . . and …
Personal Branding: How to Brand Your LinkedIn Summary Section
[The following article was originally published for my Personal Branding Expert gig on Job-Hunt.org.] Powering your LinkedIn Summary section with personal branding helps you differentiate the value you offer over your competitors. It helps recruiters and hiring decision makers at the companies …
Can You Avoid the Executive Resume Applicant Tracking System (ATS) Vortex?
If you've read any of my posts about personal branding and executive job search, you already know that merely updating your resume with recent accomplishments and contributions isn't enough to help you rise above the competition in job search. You need to present yourself as the best hiring …
Executive Job Search Networking: Remember the Telephone?
We’ve all gotten so used to the speed and ease of email, texting and other social media that many of us rarely pick up the phone any more to communicate with people. Don’t get me wrong. I rely on social media for most of my business communications. I love social media. It allows me to get …
FREE Twitter Book From Job Search and Career Experts
Did you know that the vast majority of executive recruiters use social recruiting (including Twitter) to source and assess top talent? And that many employers tweet about their new product and service launches (great for researching your target companies and industry), other business …
‘Tis the Season to Land an Executive Job
How did it get to be the holiday season already? Before you know it, the new year will be here, and it will be time to resume your executive job search in earnest. You’ve put your search on hold until January, because everyone knows that no one lands anything but seasonal work in November or …