If a post about blogging to get a job didn't turn you off and you've decided to read this, you may be thinking "Blogging for job search? Forget it. I barely have enough time for all the other things I need to do to land a job." I hope you'll keep reading. You may discover a new job search …
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The Value of Blogging with LinkedIn Publishing (or Pulse)
Blogging is one of the most powerful ways to communicate your personal brand. But setting up and maintaining your own blog may not be realistic for you. Luckily, there is a LinkedIn publishing (or blogging) platform, sometimes called Pulse. A news aggregation feed, LinkedIn Pulse rolled out in …
Blogging for Executive Jobs: Build Your Personal Brand and Get Smarter
Since I began blogging in 2007, I’ve been recommending blogging to help land executive jobs. Blogging is a very smart way to: become highly visible, build credibility as an industry thought leader, showcase your unique value to the employers you're targeting, andcommunicate your personal …
5 Must-Do’s To Land More Executive Job Interviews
When you’re in executive job search mode, landing coveted job interviews is like hitting the jackpot. Sometimes you’re lucky, and job interviews come easily, despite your lack of focused and concerted effort. Most of the time, it takes planning, preparation and a lot of work to position …
How Building a Robust Online Presence Helps You Land The Best Executive Jobs
Do you think building an online presence doesn't matter much in job search? Executive recruiters and hiring decision makers routinely search for social proof (or online evidence). In other words, they need to corroborate the claims candidates make about themselves in their personal marketing …
Having a Blog in Job Search: Anyone Can Learn To Do It, and Excel
Do you know how beneficial having a blog in job search can be? Having your own blog in job search will help you build your personal brand and differentiate the value you offer as a candidate . . . in a way that almost nothing else can top. An added bonus . . . you can also make money with your …
Blog Comments: Part of Your Online Executive Brand Communications Plan
Every strong executive brand has an online identity that follows these 5 guidelines: Relevance, Quality, Diversity, Volume, Consistency Commenting on blogs is a powerful (and relatively easy) way to cover all 5 bases. If you've been even an occasional follower and reader of this blog, you know that …
Oh, How the New LinkedIn Has Changed!
I just completed updating my 3 executive job search ebooks. Most of the strategies I recommend in them haven’t changed much over the past year but, as I got into LinkedIn particulars, I quickly realized that my content updates were going to take a lot longer than I …
Personal Branding and Executive Job Search Guide – Revised and Updated for 2015
Having trouble getting a handle on defining and building your personal branding, and navigating today’s executive job search? Not sure what to do first and what NOT to do? My popular executive job search readiness ebook will help you. First published in 2011, I’ve just finished revising and …
How Strong is Your Executive Brand Online for Job Search?
Aside from your LinkedIn profile – if you have one – how many relevant search results will executive recruiters and hiring decision makers find when they Google "your name"? If you have no compelling search results supporting your executive brand, or your online footprint consists only of your …