If you’re not already volunteering (either locally or virtually) for an organization that's meaningful to you, think about getting involved. Savvy business leaders like you have so much to offer organizations that are a good fit for your talents, skills and sensibilities. And guess what? Along …
Executive Networking
How Do I Rebuild My Network for Executive Job Search?
Executive job seekers often ask me how they can rebuild their job search network, now that they're back in a job hunt. We discuss the fact that, by far, networking is the best way to land a job and that job boards yield dismal results. They’re concerned that they neglected their network once …
How Do I Find a Job in the Hidden Executive Job Market?
You've probably heard about the hidden executive job market, but do you really know what it is, why it exists, and how to take advantage of it? No one knows for sure how many executive jobs are hidden (or never advertised), but it's estimated to be at least 80%. Why aren't more executive jobs …
Executive Job Search Networking Lessons from Experts
You may not fully grasp the fact that networking is the most successful executive job search method. Or, you may completely get it . . . but you’re either not good at networking – for executive job search or anything else – or you dread the thought of having to do it. No matter, if you want to …
Toxic Executive Job Search Belief: I can skip networking
What Every Executive Job Seeker Needs to Know About Networking Your executive job search seems to be going nowhere. You probably should be networking more, but it's a challenge for you. If you're an introvert, it may be even more daunting than for others. Maybe this is what you're thinking . . …
How to Customize LinkedIn Invitations to Connect
When you’re proactively job-hunting, you need to keep a keen eye towards expanding your LinkedIn network to include people who can help you meet your career goals. Considering that you may not know many of these people, you need to do your best to compel them to want to connect with you. Without a …
New Job Search Book: 100 Conversations for Career Success
Finally! A book on how to land a job that gets down to the nitty-gritty and actually includes scripts to deal with a wide range of networking, interviewing and job search situations and scenarios. From cold calls, emails and informational interviews, to interacting with VIPs on social media, …
LinkedIn Groups and Networking: Some People Don’t Get It
LinkedIn Groups are a good thing, especially for executive job seekers. Groups help you uncover new networking opportunities, reconnect with your neglected network, demonstrate your subject matter expertise, connect with people at your target companies, and potentially land your next job or …
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 …
Personal Marketing for Job Search
Continuing with my mission to introduce job hunters to bloggers they may not know about — but should — I’m focusing today on Tim Tyrell-Smith (@TimsStrategy on Twitter). If you want to catch up with the other posts in this series, here are the first two: → The Career Sherpa: Job Search …