3 Steps to Walking Into Your Interview with Confidence
Confidence is the number one factor to having a successful interview. If you walk into an interview feeling good about yourself, it will exude from every pore. The one thing you cannot fake is passion.
I am going to give you three steps to take starting 45 minutes before an interview. Step 3 may sound …
Is the Resume Still Relevant?
In this day of passive recruiting, is the resume still relevant?
What is passive recruiting?
A passive candidate is employed, but not currently looking for a new opportunity. Recruiters are out looking for talent and they do not care whether you are looking.
In the world of passive candidates, the resume is relatively meaningless to …
Strategic Networking – Building Your Tribe
Do you have a tribe?
What I mean by a tribe is the people in your network you can go to for a favor and actually expect it to be granted.
How many relationships can you maintain? You may have 10K followers on Twitter or 5K connections on LinkedIn, but how many do you really …
Strategic Networking uh err .. Strategic Relationships
Often when I talk about strategic networking, people will immediately think of networking events. Their palms will get sweaty as they would rather get a root canal surgery than walk into a room full of strangers.
I now say strategic relationships because that is what we are really creating. Also, relationships are rarely created at …
Negotiating for What You Want
Negotiating for what you want, and rarely is money, the most important!
Before you can start negotiating, you have to know what you want. Most people think this is about money. I say bull hockey. Think for a moment, what have been the most critical things that have made you happy in your past jobs?…
Giving Back for Your Legacy and Personal Brand
Have you thought about giving back lately?
I have attended more than my share of funerals and memorial services in the last few years as my friends and colleagues have died before their time. It makes you feel pretty mortal when someone younger than you dies.
I have a client who recently attended the funeral …
Three Ways to Date to Get a Job
Dating to get a job?
I have written before about how the dating process is very synonymous to the job search process. Sometimes to get the job you want, you need to be creative and ask for the date.
I am working with three very experienced professionals on their job searches. Each was approached by …
Curating Your Career by Creating a Career Scrapbook
What the heck is curating your career?
Curating your career is collecting information, maybe projects you were involved with, awards you won, campaigns you created and putting it all together in one place in a way that lets people visually comprehend what your career has been about. It’s a little like keeping a scrapbook. You …
Finding Keywords to Manage Your Career
How do you know which keywords you should be using in your LinkedIn profile and other social media profiles?
Everyone talks about keywords but how do you find them?The keywords you want to use are those keywords that recruiters and hiring managers are using in LinkedIn and Google searches.
First, what are the keywords …
Baby Boomer Career Development Plans
When was the last time you had a career development plan? Most of us who joined the workforce, during the 60s, 70s or 80s remember sitting down with our managers once a year to work on a career development plan. That was when you started your career with one company and planned to stay there …