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 …
Personal Branding
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, …
Personal Branding Ebook From Tim Tyrell-Smith and Job-Hunt.org
Check out the latest addition to Job-Hunt.org's list of 12 (and counting) free job search ebooks on topics ranging from personal branding, interviewing, and career reinvention, to salary negotiations, working with recruiters and more. Tim Tyrell-Smith, creator of the Tim's Strategy approach to …
5 Key Elements of a Strong Online Personal Brand
Do you want to increase your chances to be found by executive recruiters and your target employers? What job seeker doesn’t? Most recruiters and hiring authorities source talent by searching relevant keywords on LinkedIn, Google, and other search engines, and then assessing the people those …
Bullet-Proof Your Executive Career in the New World of Work
(An edited version of this article was originally posted on Quintessential Careers as part of the fourth annual Job Action Day initiative, celebrated this year on November 7.) Finding a job and staying employed today – two separate challenges – require more effort and strategic planning than ever …
How Twitter Helped Me Build My Personal Brand
So many of my c-level executive clients and potential clients are surprised that Twitter is such an integral part of my personal branding and social media marketing efforts, even though it’s wildly popular and stories about its value for business-building and job search abound. They still think …
What Happens To Your Online Personal Brand After You’re Gone?
Morbid topic. But if you’ve spent any time working on building your brand and online presence across various channels, you have to wonder what will become of all those profiles and photos. And if you’re a blogger or article-writer, do you want all that content you’ve created to be "out there" …
Get Personal With Your Executive Brand Statement
A slight variation of this article was cross-posted at Job-Hunt.org, as part of my Personal Branding Expert series of articles. With target employers in mind, an executive’s personal brand “positioning” statement should link their functional areas of expertise (hard skills) with key personal …
Do New Grads Have a Personal Brand?
In a departure from my usual focus on c-level executive branding and job search, my most recent article as Job-Hunt’s Personal Branding Expert, cross-p0sted here, zeroed in on new grads and branding: I’m a New Grad. Do I Have a Personal Brand? The short answer – YES! We all do. Everyone has …
Executive Branding Online: Write Book Reviews on Amazon
Volume and diversity of search results are two of the keys to building a strong online presence to attract your target employers, if you're job hunting, or your target audience, when you're doing business. The probability that these people assessing you will connect with you greatly improves if, …