I always enjoy looking back at my blog posts from the past year, to assess which topics best hit home with readers. Last year, posts about using LinkedIn for executive job search were the most popular, showing up 4 times in my list of 10 best below. Most of these were also my favorites to write. …
Blogging
Best of Blogging Your Personal Brand for C-level Executive Jobs
I haven’t written about blogging – one of my favorite things to do – in quite some time. Lucky I enjoy it so much because, no question, most of my business comes through my two blogsites – Executive Career Brand and Executive Resume Branding. They are the single best tool for marketing my brand, …
5 Executive Job Search Tactics You Need To Try
Along with writing and cooking, gardening is a passion of mine. I don’t have a big garden, just a few dozen pots of assorted vegetables, herbs and flowers, protected on my deck from all the critters around here. Every year in early May I hit the local garden centers and linger over all the …
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 …
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 …
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" …
Job Search Tips From Jason Alba of JibberJobber
In my continuing series of posts focusing on job search bloggers you should know about, I turned to my friend and colleague Jason Alba. He has been on the scene since 2006 offering help through JibberJobber, a job search and career management tool, and several blogsites. Catch up with my 3 …
Social Media ROI: Is It Worth the Time?
So much has been written and said about whether social media brings enough return on time invested. The key to getting value is choosing a few platforms and leveraging them well. We can easily get consumed and overwhelmed by dabbling in too much social media , and making an impact with …
The Career Sherpa: Job Search Navigation Expert
I asked my friend and colleague Hannah Morgan, the Career Sherpa (@careersherpa on Twitter) for the best job search advice she could share with people: "The rules have changed. Lifetime employment no longer exists. The sooner we can all adjust and accept this, the better. We all need to develop a …