With unemployment at around 10% and job search frequently stretching out beyond 10 to 12 months, more and more executive job seekers are stuck figuring out how to deal with prolonged employment gaps on their resumes and other career marketing communications. How do you best deal with these gaps and …
Executive Job Search
Launchpad 4 Just Released! Best Job Search Advice From Top Career Experts
Throughout this year, Career Rocketeer published the first three volumes of Launchpad: Your Career Search Strategy Guide. Founder Chris Perry developed the CareerRocketeer blogsite and Launchpad series to help entrepreneurs and job seekers at all levels "launch" their careers to greater …
The Importance of Executive Branding in Job Search
My colleague and blogging friend Tim Tyrell-Smith recently invited me and others among his approved career experts to guest blog at his excellent blogsite, Tim's Strategy. Tim also manages a highly popular LinkedIn Group comprised of active job seekers as well as employed professionals offering …
Personal Branding By Any Other Name Would . . .
As branding has mainstreamed, more and more misinformed dissenting voices scream out across Twitter, blogs, and other social media warning us not to fall for it. In their rush to deride and dismiss branding, they're confusing the whole concept of branding – digging deep to identify one's ROI …
Executive Branding: Personal vs Career Branding
Although often used interchangeably, there is a simple distinction between the two. Personal branding represents what is authentic about your personality and character, and reflects the perception of you held by the external world. Because it's all about what kind of person you are, your personal …
Can You Work Your Passion in a Lousy Executive Job Market?
A client prospect I spoke with recently, a COO in retail, was struggling with whether or not it was time to transition away from the corporate world. He was desperately unhappy in his work, and had been for several years. Somehow, as his career progressed to the c-level, he realized he had lost …
4 Executive Job Search First Steps, Before You Write Your Resume
I can't tell you how often job-seeking executives I consult with tell me they want to pursue several diverse kinds of positions. The first time I spoke with one client, he said his focus was on Chief Operating Officer (COO) or maybe Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) or even VP of Sales and Marketing, …
10 Things to Love About Your Executive Brand
If you’re someone who thinks personal branding is just a passing fancy, a self-promotion gimmick, you’ve been paying too much attention to the barrage of misinformed voices disparaging it. The beauty of personal branding comes from defining and knowing what makes you unique and valuable, and …
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 …