ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse, a pioneering full-time blogger, challenged his readers to choose 7 posts that fit the following specific themes. Here are my own choices: 1. Your first post From May 2008, actually the third post on my Executive Resume Branding blog, but my first decent one, The Inside …
Social Media & Social Networking
Online Reputation Management: Do You Self-Google?
A new Pew Research Center report, Reputation Management and Social Media, indicates the following: 57% of adult internet users now use search engines to find information about themselves online, up from 47% in 2006. 46% of online adults have created their own profile on a social networking …
You’re a C-level Executive Job Seeker and You’re NOT Blogging?
Nothing works like a blog with the domain name "yourname.com" to extend your online identity, and build credibility and visibility around your executive brand, value proposition, industry subject matter expertise, and thought leadership. Once it gains traction, yourname.com will likely be the …
ExecuNet’s 2010 Executive Job Market Intelligence Report
In 2010, personal branding, networking, and online identity management are the keys to executive job search success. A new resilience is emerging in the 150K+ executive job market. ExecuNet surveys conducted in January 2010 show "job creation increasing, recruiter confidence restored, 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 …
Does Your ZoomInfo Profile Send the Wrong Personal Brand Message?
"Wait a minute", you may be saying, "I never created a ZoomInfo profile! How did I get one?" ZoomInfo aggregates information about some people and companies, and creates profiles for them. The good news. You have a page one (probably) Google search result for your name without lifting a …
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 …