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Personal Branding Interview: Jason Buss

Today, I spoke with Jason Buss is a Talent Management executive, strategist and blogger The Talent Buzz.  In this interview, Jason talks to us about managing his full-time job and his blog, how he sources candidates, what the best social network is for recruitment, the new employer/employee contract and more.

How do you manage having…
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Success Story: How Bernard Lachance’s Creative Personal Branding Got Him on Oprah

Bernard Lachance is a French-Canadian singer who had a dream and achieved it with a creative personal branding strategy.

He tells it best:

 

10 lessons we can learn from Bernard Lachance’s inspirational success<

Believe in yourself<

Bernard had no agent, manager or promoter when he decided to rent the Chicago Theatre for his show. …

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Personal Branding Interview: Daniel Coyle

Today, I spoke with Daniel Coyle, who is a contributing editor for Outside magazine, and a New York Times bestselling author.  His latest book is called The Talent Code, which he discusses in the below interview.  Daniel defines talent, gives some great examples of talented people, explains the attributes of talent, how he’s used his …

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How to Translate What You Do Into What’s In It For Others

Ever feel like you’re speaking a completely different language when you’re relaying your branding message or elevator pitch to others? Even when you deliver it coherently without stumbling over your words, something seems to be lost in the translation because people just aren’t “getting it?”

What’s often lost in the translation, what others aren’t understanding …

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How NOT Getting the Job was the Best Thing that Could have Happened

Lessons learned

Last week I received that dreaded phone call that comes from the same family line as the tiny envelope university rejection letter:

Ring…. Ring…. Ring….

Me: Stephen! How you doing? Stephen: Doing great Jun… Me: Did you get my email? I had an amazing time interviewing with Damon and Jim yesterday. Feeling real …

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Personal Branding Interview: John Kador

Today, I spoke with John Kador, who is a New York Times bestselling author and author of the new book,  Effective Apology.  In this interview, John discusses how executives can earn more money by apologizing, the significance of the word “sorry,” the power of authenticity, some great examples and more.

Can you explain how executives…
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Personal Branding Interview: Robin Koval

Today, I spoke with Robin Koval, who is the President of The Kaplan Thaler Group, a bestselling author, and the author of her latest book called The Power of Small.  In this interview, Robin talks about her personal brand building approach, how her successful marketing program for AFLAC can translate into personal brand success, how …

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Don’t Trust Spell Check to Safeguard Your Personal Brand

If part of your personal brand strategy involves blogging, you’ve probably run into publishing regret once or twice.

I’m not talking about the publishing regret that comes from writing something snarky online and having it come back to bite you when you’re applying for your next job.  I’m talking about the embarrassing typo mistakes that …