Building Your Personal Brand Through Volunteerism
Whether you’re in between jobs, in school, or working full time, volunteering is a great way to build your personal brand. Sharing your time with non-profit organizations can help you build your network and develop your skills while doing some good for your community.
Volunteering shows you’re team oriented. When you give your time to …
Eight Tips for Trade Show Success
Almost everyone has been to some kind of event or trade show. Whether it’s a college recruiting day, a job fair or an industry trade show. Almost everyone has been to something like this. However, some people don’t seem to maximize their time and effort at them.
One thing that regularly surprises me is the …
7 Questions to Ask Before You Start to Write
Ask yourself the following questions before you start to write your next article, blog post, or book to build your personal brand.
The questions may appear to be simple, but always pausing to answer them can help you save time by focusing your attention on the key issues that determine the success of your writing …
Stop Selling Yourself. Start Playing It Cool.
Q&A With Pete Leibman, Author of “I Got My Dream Job and So Can You”
“Dear Pete: I’m in the middle of a job search, and a friend just referred me to someone who works for one of my target companies. Should I include my resume and cover letter when I contact this person?”
Pete’s …
Appreciating Criticism Doesn’t Make You a Doormat! Embrace it
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” ~ Winston Churchill
Learning how to accept criticism is crucial for personal improvement. It’s the most direct way to discover what you need to improve. However, …
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
When it comes to personal branding, you can invest all the time and effort you want in to creating well-worded profiles, resumes, cover letters, and “About Me” websites, but if you don’t back up your written communications with constructive interactions, all of that work will be for nothing.
Your personal brand is best developed through …
Are YOU Laboring in ‘Stable Misery’?
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? Publication is scheduled for late fall.
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We human beings have an incredible capacity to tolerate and adapt to a very wide range of …
The Best Way to Lead is to Follow
Many people have this misconception about leadership.
They think leading others is directing the troops. Setting a vision, telling people what to do, and keeping everyone on track .While leadership is all of these, the real difference between good and great leadership is empowerment.
If the CEO of a company maintains complete control on all …
A Single Incident Can Undermine Decades of Brand Loyalty
Brands are fragile; a single incident can undermine enthusiasm for a brand that took decades to build.
I’ve been a fan of one of America’s premier blues performers for decades, buying their albums, attending their concerts, and making it a point to visit their home base blues club on every visit to Chicago.
Last year, …
The Bain of Obama’s Brand
If everything good about you was eclipsed by someone’s loud voice, if everything you believed was in the shadow of someone else who communicated better – you would be angry. But if anger were the cryponite of your brand – the one thing that if you were, you would never get where you wanted to …