Why are LinkedIn recommendations so important? The true measure of your executive brand and promise of value to future employers is reflected in what those who know your work the best – co-workers, peers, top management, team members, customers, etc. – have to say about you. Executive recruiters …
LinkedIn: Best Tactic for Undercover Executive Job Search
Are you job hunting now or planning a search in the near future, but afraid your employer will find out, so you’re hunting on the sly? Most of my clients are employed c-suite executives who either see signs of a possible layoff, or have become dissatisfied with their jobs and want to test the …
LinkedIn Helps You Find the Right Twitter People to Follow
Are you like many of my c-level and senior executive clients – a Twitter noobie, or thinking of diving in, and having a hard time figuring out who to follow? You know that the more quality people you follow, the more value you're likely to derive from Twitter. But how and where to find them? Here …
Power Your Executive Brand with LinkedIn Groups
You've worked hard on getting your branded, searchable, 100% complete LinkedIn profile up and humming. What's next? One of LinkedIn's most powerful networking features that's bringing great value to me is Groups. For executive job search, LinkedIn Groups can be invaluable for communicating your …
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 …
5 Tactics to Land a Green Industry Executive Job
These days, the green industry is a tantalizing carrot dangling in front of people who are stagnating in jobs in anemic industries or finding diminishing opportunities while actively job-hunting within their niche. Over this decade green jobs will open wide, as companies, organizations and all of …
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 – …
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 …
Resume Lingerie and 10 Other Guerrilla Job Search Strategies
Are you having a tough time landing an executive job? Maybe it’s time to consider shaking things up and innovating an unconventional search campaign to position yourself above the crowd. Yesterday I took an eye-opening Reach Personal Branding teleseminar, “Job Search Secrets Revealed”, featuring …