Resume Personal Branding Best Practices Part 2 – Superior/Commodity
We’ve all been taught to create one multi-purpose resume that could be used for any job we might apply for.
This strategy worked before the days of digital resumes, job boards, online applications, and applicant tracking systems. It worked when there were shortages of candidates.
Branding yourself as a commodity just isn’t good enough anymore …
Reducing Friction: Too Many Minds
There’s a scene in the movie “The Last Samurai” that I absolutely love; in this scene, Tom Cruise keeps getting beat by a swordsman in training. His friend approaches him and says, “Please forgive; too many mind… mind the sword, mind the people watch, mind enemy – -too many mind.”
The lesson learned: when you …
Personal Branding Accelerates Professional Advancement
Smart, strategic personal branding can accelerate professional advancement. There is no getting around it, ignoring its importance, or doing it half heartedly.
What a smart, strategic personal branding plan and blueprint can do is frame what you stand for and how to stand out, get noticed and become credible in your field or community. How …
Personal Branding Weekly – Moving from We to Me
Personal Branding Weekly
From working with a career coach to great email etiquette techniques, last week’s Personal Branding Blog posts focused on being authentic, building a brand and even reviewing the political landscape and personal brandings.
Here’s the articles you might have missed:
Cool, Clever Trends Help Personal Branding! by Deborah Shane If I Were…5 Reasons Your Resume Is Killing You
In today’s economy, employers are receiving hundreds or even thousands of resumes every single day. One hiring manager for a Fortune 500 company told me that he recently received over 12,000 resumes for one position!
Hiring managers will not take the time to determine why you should be hired. It’s your job to present your …
Do You Handle Rejection or Does It Handle You?
Dealing with rejection is a major bummer.
Whether it is from a date, a client or a job posting, rejection tends to bring up the worst kind of questions in ourselves: the plague of self-doubt.
“Was it me? Am I good enough? Of course I’m not good enough. I knew this would happen!”
And before …
A Career Coach: The Catalyst for Your Success!
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” – Benjamin Disraeli
Hiring a coach is a smart move if you’re seeking meaningful direction or advancement in your career. Coaches can be instrumental in helping their clients build on their strengths, overcome …
5 Rules of Thumb for Proper E-mail E-tiquette
I’m currently recruiting for several positions, so I’ve been receiving tons of e-mails from job seekers applying for our open jobs. It was while going through these submissions that I got the inspiration for this post. One of the messages I received was a very brief e-mail with a resume attached. The e-mail simply stated …
Five Personal Branding Tips for Musicians
Some of the best and worst personal branding practitioners I know are musicians. The good ones promote the bejeezus out of themselves everywhere and anywhere they can. The bad ones book a gig, post something to Facebook (maybe), send a few posters to the venue, and leave it at that.
Here are five personal branding …
Personal Branding Redemption
My job as an online reputation manager has brought me face to face with many high and low profile individuals living some of the most difficult, testing and trying times of their lives as they found themselves in the eye of the storm in reputation crises that threatened to derail their careers. When thousands of …