Home Bound Workers Caught in a Sinkhole?
How dare Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, a new mother for goodness sake, force employees to come to work! How dare she want employees to see each other! What could be good about people who work in the same company making eye contact? Shaking hands? Exchanging a fist bump?
Why that would mean getting dressed! Improving …
Information Keeps Your Personal Brand Current
… and allows you to brand yourself as a superior candidate.
Information is power …
The information you use to shape your communications with employers is critical to your success … or lack of success in landing a job.
But the information that most candidates use is lacking … and inferior information brands you as …
Corporate Career Development – Is It Really About You?
If you’ve ever worked for a company, you’ve most likely had one of those career development talks with your manager. If your manager was any good, you were discussing your strengths, and how to grow in the areas of your passion. However, the career development within a company is, of course, focused on the company …
25 Ways to Brand Yourself and Find New Prospects
We are all really in sales, no matter what we do, but our approach has had to change from traditional models.
Selling has always been about communication and education. 21st century salesmanship leads with building the trust of “who is selling” rather than what they are selling.
The consumer wants to know that who is …
Personal Branding Weekly and Email Still Matters
Do you know how to prepare for an interview now? How do you feel about the importance of cultural fit and your VPs (they’re just as important as VPs are to a business)? These are just some of the topics covered in this week’s Personal Branding Blog articles along with a couple …
5 Ways to Prepare for an Interview
Visualize Your Success and It Will Come!
“Fortune favors the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur
On a recent business flight, I struck up a conversation with a career coach who is the wife of one of the world’s leading musicians and the mother of a rising star in the world of classical percussion. Her son had recently won first place in a …
9 Lesser-Known Strategies for Building Your Brand’s Credibility
What’s your favorite little-known secret for building your brand’s recognizability… radio show? Writing a book? Leading a cause marketing campaign? Reality TV?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free …
‘Cultural Fit’ and Your Personal Brand
So what is ‘cultural fit’ and how does it relate to personal branding? A recent article in Forbes, Employers Hire Potential Drinking Buddies Ahead of Top Candidates, got me thinking about this question. After all, your qualifications and credentials are the table stakes that will get your foot in the door, but your character is …
Should Working from Home Be Banned?
In the past 20 years a lot of companies have adopted a more open model about where employees can do their work. Some allow employees to work from home. Some allow employees to selectively work from home or otherwise remotely. Some actively encourage employees to work from home … or at least somewhere other than …