Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #14
Responses to recent tweets by people about personal branding and Gen-Y, Twitter, presentations and lack of focus.
Taylor B., @thbrogan, twittered: can my personal brand involve not taking twitter too seriously? because i enjoy this option.
Jacob Share, @jacobshare: “Taking Twitter seriously” should mean carefully using Twitter to achieve your personal branding goals (in this …
Most Important Job Interview Question Is Asked By YOU!
Throughout the job hunting process you will be asked many questions, from “Why do you want to work at our company?” to “Tell me about your current (or previous) boss,” as well as a multitude of similar “qualifying” questions. How you answer each of these questions is of course very important. There is, however, one …
Closing The Great Divide Between Hiring Managers – Job Seekers
With more than 14 million Americans looking for work, hiring managers at top U.S. companies claim they are unable to find qualified job candidates. Even more striking is that there are more than three million open positions in the marketplace today.
How is that possible?As a member of the Career Advisory Board, presented by …
Time To Put Your Blog On A Diet?
If your blog is not building the personal brand you want, put it on a diet!
Adopt a new philosophy: write better, but write less!
Putting your blog on a diet sharpens your thinking and improves your ability to engage, inform, and motivate readers, building your personal brand as the “go to” resource in your …
To Be Or Not To Be ~ Decision For Advancement
The past few years have shown waves of employees leaving corporate behind to begin their own venture of entrepreneurship. Some of the entrepreneurs with whom I have become good friends are now re-entering the workforce for a variety of reasons. Conversations are now taking place pondering the question of, “When is it a good time …
How to Build Your Brand With A Common Name
After completing a quick Google search of yourself and seeing your name, but none of your matching sites or profiles, how can you make sure your personal brand can be spotted? For those who have a common first and last name, this problem is constant battle.
If others with your name are overshadowing you online, …
One Word Guarantees They’ll Say Yes
There is one word that will undoubtedly get you on the way to that job interview, or a meeting with a prospect or referral source – even a potential investor. This magical word will work for you when you use it in person, on the phone, in an email subject line, a text or a …
Personal Branding Through Email
Personal branding can play a pivotal role in your professional life, whether you are applying for a job, applying for school, or trying to gain new clients. If people like your brand, they will be more apt to help you or become business partners. If they don’t like your brand, don’t …
What Are Your Brand Themes For This Year?
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. Brian Tracy
I have always believed for me, that I am in constant change and evolution, as our life cycle so eloquently demonstrates.
When I …
Volunteering Your Way To A Job
It’s no secret the job market is tough. But whether you’ve been unemployed for two months or two years, you can still gain new skills, fill gaps in your resume and network, all the while giving back to your community through volunteering.
Long gone are the days when volunteering meant working in a soup kitchen …