Is 2013 the Year YOU Start MAKING Things Happen?
Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, CAREER STALLED? How to Get Your Career Back in ‘High Gear’ and Land the Job You Deserve─Your Dream Job. Publication is scheduled for early 2013.
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Give The Gifts You Have
If you’re reading this in real time, you’re spending Christmas Day with me. No, not just my blog post. Me.
Perhaps like you, my work shows up more often and in more places than I ever could. Of course, this is largely due to the web, which encourages people to read and share what matters …
Traditional Principles + New Media Practices = Sales Leadership
Sales leadership is achieved today by a combination of traditional principles and new practices. You can’t be successful today unless you use and incorporate the best of both and mold both into your personal sales strategy.
I spent 20+ years as a broadcast radio sales leader, when the primary media was traditional media. We cold …
Personal Branding Weekly and Visible Word of Mouth
Editor’s Note: Thank you to Oscar Del Santo for his tremendous contribution as a weekly columnist here at the Personal Branding Blog. In addition to wonderful insights on personal branding, Oscar delivered a unique perspective on personal branding in another culture and being able to express that across country lines. Oscar was …
Figure Out Exactly What Your Audience Wants
Marketing, branding, selling all boil down to figuring out what your most perfect customer wants.
Your brand is a distilled version of what your perfect customer deeply craves.
But, how the heck do you go about figuring this out. After all, it is the rare exception that a company advertises exactly what they deeply crave.…
Want to Relocate? Six Tips for Getting Noticed
If you’re looking for a position in a different geographic area than where you live, it can be difficult to get your resume noticed. Naturally, employers prefer to hire local – it costs less and it’s easier to coordinate interviews.There are ways for you to increase your chances of getting that job across the country. …
How the Circus Trains an Elephant to Stay Put
Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, CAREER STALLED? How to Get Your Career Back in ‘High Gear’ and Land the Job You Deserve─Your Dream Job. Publication is scheduled for early 2013.
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Making The Most Of Your Time Off For The Holidays
For most workers, the novelty of the holiday season includes not only gifts, food, and family, it also means some much needed time off from work. But with this time off comes the logistics of finishing work on time, planning ahead, and requesting additional leave. Statistics show that us work hounds don’t always take all …
A New Job Under Your Tree?
If you could get the gift you REALLY want, then Santa would eat your plate of cookies after he dropped your dream job under the tree. (If the tree isn’t your thing, just insert whatever symbol of your faith or spiritual practice you’re celebrating).
Of course, when you wrote your gift wish list – you …
The Only Way to Stand Out Above the Crowd
The market is crowded. Every vertical has a professional trying to brand himself as the expert in the field, saturating the market and making it difficult to stand out above all the noise. Becoming the best has nothing to do with being the best; rather, it’s all about perception and how the market perceives you. …