Twitter allows you just 160 characters in your bio to tell the world who you are. Granted, it's not easy to pack everything you feel people need to know about you into such a small package. Carefully craft what you put there to resonate with the people you want to attract. First, define your …
Search Executive Jobs With Twitter Lists
Are you still on the fence about the value of Twitter and hesitate diving in? Maybe this will change your mind. Thousands of top companies post job openings in real time and recruit executive candidates through Twitter. You can find these employers by joining Twitter and searching for them, and …
Give Twitter 15 Minutes a Day, Land Your Next Executive Job
Impossible you say? Not according to my friends and colleagues Susan Britton Whitcomb, Chandlee Bryan, and Deb Dib, the authors of "The Twitter Job Search Guide: Find a Job and Advance Your Career in Just 15 Minutes a Day". This book is a powerhouse of information and practical advice on …
Daily Personal Branding Tips from the Experts
In a guest post on Ryan Rancatore's Personal Branding 101, Mohammed Altaee asked 15 Twitter personal branding experts to contribute their top tips in "Personal Branding Tasks You Can Do Every Day". Here are 9 of their sure-fire suggestions: 1. Continually hone your skill through self …
10 Ways to Build Your Personal Brand Online Without a Blog
A new client of mine understood that he needed to pump up his online presence. A Google search for his name yielded a dismal number of relevant results, plus he had a common name and the little that was out there about him was lost in a sea of same-named people. To win at executive job search in …
Does Your Online Identity Scream “Hire Me”?
Think your online presence, or lack of it, doesn’t factor much into executive hiring decision-making? Think again. Given two equal candidates, in terms of skill sets, education, work history, and all around good fit for the job, recruiters and hiring professionals are likely to choose the one with …
Stalled Executive Job Search? Get Busy on LinkedIn and Twitter
A favorite client of mine "Tom", who is a highly accomplished COO in life sciences, told me the other day that, after two months of actively searching, he had not gotten one interview. He and I had collaborated on defining his personal brand and creating a suite of career marketing documents – …
14 Reasons I Won’t Follow You On Twitter [Revisited]
With a sudden flurry of tweets and blog comments for my original post of the same name over at my Executive Resume Branding blog, I decided to take a second look at my "won't follow" criteria four months later. Let me first say that these are not hard and fast rules that I even follow myself all …
Social Media: Never on Sunday?
When I recently visited my elderly, ultra tech-challenged father (he still has trouble with his answering machine – forget about him ever getting a computer), I brought along my netbook to see if I’d be able to pick up a signal at his house. He marveled at how small my laptop was. "Is that a full …
2010 Top 10 Executive Personal Branding and Job Search Trends
Things have changed in the world of work and executive job search. Tried and true methods still apply, but the impact of the Internet and our recovering job market require building a different kind of job search strategy and becoming much more proactive. In a nutshell, what you need to do …