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: Alan Webber

Today, I spoke with Alan Webber, who is the co-founder of Fast Company Magazine and the author of Rules of Thumb. In this interview, Alan tells us what inspired him to start Fast Company and write his new book, how he sees the media landscape changing, how to succeed in a time of economic struggles …

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Personal Branding Interview: Ken Blanchard

Today, I spoke with Ken Blanchard, who is one of the most influential leadership experts in the world, an bestselling author multiple times over, a world famous speaker and author of the new book, Helping People Win At Work.  In this interview, Ken discusses how employees can win at work, the training and development employees …

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Personal Branding Interview: Keith Ferrazzi

Today, I spoke with Keith Ferrazzi, who is the New York Times bestselling author of Never Eat Alone, one of the most connected individuals on planet earth and his new book is called Who’s Got Your Back.  In this interview, Keith gives us some of the bigger ideas in his new book, such as how …

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Personal Branding Interview: Tamar Weinberg

Today, I spoke with Tamar Weinberg, who is the community manager at  Mashable, and author of the new book The New Community Rules. She also just had a baby! In this interview, Tamar discusses social media tools for business purposes, blogging and microblogging, explains how important it is for companies to join the conversation online …

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Your Network is Your Only Insurance Policy

Last Monday I stated that the future of job hunting is people searching and I received a great reaction to it with over a hundred retweets and twenty-three comments.  The main idea with this concept is that the web has broken hierarchies and connected everyone in disperse networks, so that you can reach employees at …

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Personal Branding Interview: Clara Shih

Today, I spoke with Clara Shih, who is the author of The Facebook Era and a Salesforce.com employee.  In this interview, she discusses what the Facebook era is, how she came to write the book, what social networks mean for personal branding, and more.

What is the Facebook Era?

The Facebook Era is the technology, …

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Personal Branding Interview: Caroline Ceniza-Levine

Today, I spoke with Caroline Ceniza-Levine, who is a career coach, writer, speaker, Gen-Y expert and co-founder of SixFigureStart.  In this interview, Caroline talks to us about how executives are google’d before interviews, what executives can do after a layoff, and much more.

Caroline, is it true that executives will be googled before a job…
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Personal Branding Interview: Louise Weir

Today, I spoke with Louise Weir, who is the Marketing and Communications Manager for Career Services at London Business School.  In this interview, Louise gives us advice about taking a job abroad, interviewing over the phone, some interview tips for MBA students, and ideas on how to use LinkedIn for job searching.

When seeking a…
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Personal Branding Interview: Allen Adamson

Today, I spoke to Allen P. Adamson, who  is the author of BrandDigital: Simple Ways Top Brands Succeed in the Digital World and the managing director of Landor Associates. In this interview Allen shares his wisdom of years of experience in the branding world, including a thorough explaination of the difference between advertising and public …