Without realizing it, you may be making email mistakes that can sabotage your chances of landing a job you covet and deserve. The meat of your email message – what you include and don’t include in the actual content – requires careful consideration. Think of an email message in the same way …
Executive Job Search
How LinkedIn’s Resume Assistant Can Negatively Impact Your Personal Brand
Personal branding is all about differentiating the unique value you offer the employers you’re targeting. If you want to make headway using LinkedIn to promote your personal brand and value, you create plenty of brand-reinforcing content in your profile and elsewhere on LinkedIn. You work hard …
How To Brand Your Executive Job Interviews to Land the Gig
Research, strategic planning, preparation and rehearsal for executive interviews are more important than ever in today’s executive job market. Many job seekers don’t take the time, or don’t know what they need to do, to outshine the competition. Part of job search preparation, and therefore …
Brand Yourself in the 5 Long LinkedIn Profile Sections
Every part of your LinkedIn profile is an opportunity to communicate your brand, but LinkedIn offers 5 longer sections to really brand yourself well. It’s one thing to have a LinkedIn profile. It’s another to have a robust LinkedIn profile that is targeted towards your ideal employers and …
How Executive Recruiting Is Changing
Every profession evolves over time, to adapt to the inevitable changes impacting the way things operate in that particular environment. Executive recruiting is no different. The LinkedIn blog mentioned a post by John Vlastelica, founder of Recruiting Toolbox, in which he posed the following …
The Secret of Personal Branding – Be Authentic!
I find that many people have a hard time grasping what personal branding really is. One of the most important things is to be authentic. Differentiate to Land In job search, personal branding is all about differentiating and communicating the unique value you offer your target employers over …
Are You Using LinkedIn Stories?
LinkedIn joined the "Stories" game recently, following the lead of Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat, WhatsApp and Pinterest and is only available on mobile for now. Like other new features, this may soon roll out to all members, whether they use desktop or mobile. Stories are a high-visibility …
4 Ways Common Courtesy Drives a Successful Executive Job Search
Executives these days seem to pay less attention to good manners and etiquette in job search networking, and through the entire executive job search process. This makes these positive qualities an even more powerful asset to those who demonstrate them. People with particularly good manners stand …
3 Neglected, But Simple, Personal (Social) Branding Strategies
Some social branding strategies for executive job search take a lot of time to accomplish. I previously wrote an article that outlines important personal branding tips, 3 Juicy Insider LinkedIn Personal Branding Tips: They’re all things you need to do, but they require a lot of effort and …
Personal SEO in Executive Job Search: What’s in a Name?
In the new world of executive job search, having a strong online presence requires Personal SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Do you have an unusual or uncommon first and/or last name that you've always disliked or even hated? Maybe you were teased about it when you were young? That could be a …