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, …
Executive Job Search
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 …
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 …
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 …
One of My Favorite Blogging Strategies
I love blogging – running with the germ of an idea, the writing itself, the research (when necessary), recalling older posts to refer to, even the actual mechanics of loading on the content, finding a graphic and hitting the "publish" button. There's more geek in me than I ever realized until I …
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 …
Holiday Executive Job Search Tips
So many executive job seekers think that November and December are dead months for job search. No one's thinking about hiring, talking about hiring, or doing any hiring, right? That may or may not be the case. But this is a great time to lay some groundwork, make connections and possibly get a foot …
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 …
When Job Search Email Goes Missing
Never assume that the email you’ve sent has reached its destination or that it has been read by the person intended. Recently I opened an email with a scathing message from someone I didn’t know. She bashed me for ignoring her previous email inquiring about my services. Problem is, I never received …