Author: Dan Schawbel

Dan Schawbel is the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and consulting firm. He is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Promote Yourself: The New Rules For Career Success (St. Martin’s Press) and the #1 international bestselling book, Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future (Kaplan Publishing), which combined have been translated into 15 languages.
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Personal Branding Interview: Patricia Hunt Sinacole

Today, I spoke to Patricia Hunt Sinacole, an HR expert who runs First Beacon Group LLC and is also columnist for The Boston Globe. In this interview, Patricia talks about how job seekers can become more employable, what retail marketing strategies work in a job hunt, why companies should limit social media use at work …

In this interview, Pamela Mitchell talks about the process of career reinvention and explains how your career can conflict with your life.
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Personal Branding Interview: Pamela Mitchell

Today, I spoke to Pamela Mitchell, the founder and CEO of The Reinvention Institute, Inc. (TRI), author of The 10 Laws of Career Reinvention: Essential Survival Skills for Any Economy, and columnist for Inc.com.

In this interview, Pamela talks about the process of career reinvention. She also provides examples of those that have made the …

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Personal Branding Interview: Steve Garfield

Today, I spoke to Steve Garfield, who is the author of Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business and one of the leading edge experts in online video and blogging. In this interview, Steve talks about how he got started with online video, some video podcasting equipment for beginners, how he’s used videos …

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Personal Branding Interview: Bob Burg

Today I spoke to Bob Burg, who is a highly sought-after speaker and the bestselling author of Endless Referrals, The Go-Giver and his upcoming book Go-Giver’s Sell More, which comes out on February 18th.  In this interview, Bob talks about how to network by giving before receiving, talks about how he was inspired to write …

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Personal Branding Interview #2: Alexandra Levit

Today, I spoke with Alexandra Levit, who is the author of New Job, New You: A Guide to Reinventing Yourself in a Bright New Career, a columnist for The Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal and a gen-y expert and speaker. I’ve interviewed Alexandra before about her previous book called How’d You Score That …

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Personal Branding Interview: Robert Pagliarini

Today, I spoke to Robert Pagliarini, who is the author of the #1 Bestselling personal finance book, The Six-Day Financial Makeover and his latest book is called The Other 8 Hours. Pagliarini is President and owner of Pacifica Wealth Advisors, Inc. and writes a column for CBS MoneyWatch. In this interview, Robert explains how he’s …

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Job Boards And Their New Role in Your “Social” Job Search

If you’re a job seeker, or you were in the past, then you know what a job board is. It’s a database of “open” positions at companies looking to hire specific talent and they are searchable by multiple filters, such as geography and company name.  They make money per job listing and have other advertising …

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Personal Branding Interview: Emily Bazelon

Today, I spoke to Emily Bazelon, who is a senior editor at Slate and co-editor of DoubleX, Slate’s site for women. She is also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the Truman Capote law and media fellow at Yale Law School.  In this interview, Emily talks about how she first got …

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10 Reasons Why You Have to Manage Your Personal Brand

The concept of personal branding came way before social media. Everyone has a personal brand, whether they like the concept or loathe it.  It’s inescapable.  The issue most people have once they discover their authentic brand is how to manage it from the “big idea” to the execution of that idea and then actually protecting …