7 Tips to Rev Up Your Job Search This Summer
With the year almost half over, it’s time to size up your progress.
Your career may look like an amusement park, and you might feel like you’re stuck in a line that’s barely moving. Or maybe you rode one roller coaster only to see the other rides (goals) differently.
Just how far along are …
Is Your Brand Hiding in Plain Sight?
Recently I judged a brand personality competition for Newsweek/Daily Beast’s special issue on the top 100 Digital Brands, along with 4 other branding experts. Beyond my vote, the editor asked for an answer to a hot button question for people who are just launching their brands. That might be you.
Does the Internet need more …
6 Signs It’s Time To Change
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
Habits are our greatest asset and can become our worst curse.
We know in order to maintain our personal and professional lives, we need to develop and establish effective, solid and sensible habits, as well as, keeping them …
Tout: the 15-Second Personal Branding Sensation
Where many others have failed, 15-second video update sensation Tout seems to be succeeding. And in doing so, it is proving that social media, mobile apps and personal branding are going to walk hand in hand into the foreseeable digital horizon and that (as we have defended here) influencers hold the key for the eventual …
14 Ways to Boost Your Brand and Help Charity
5 Steps to Master Managing People Older Than You
It was the first day of my first job right out of college. Despite all the group projects and being president of different clubs, there was nothing that could have prepared me for what sat in front of me. Literally sitting in front of me were 15 customer service reps, all older than me, half …
7 Tips for Finding Time to Build Personal Brand
Time management is an often-overlooked key to personal branding success; here are 7 strategies & tips for finding the time to build your personal brand.
A lack of time is no excuse for failing to invest in your future by building your personal brand.
These days, everyone faces the universal challenge of too much to …
Interns: 3 More Ways to Build Your Personal Brand
It’s summertime, which means plenty of college students and recent graduates are taking on summer internships. While internships are a great way to learn essential job-related skills, they can also serve as the perfect opportunity to build your personal brand.
No matter where you’re interning this summer, any position at a company in your desired …
5 Tasks Every Successful Employee Masters
No matter what you do, you are going to be paid better if you take on these five additional tasks in your company. In addition, performing these tasks is akin to getting a work insurance policy, that is: play these five roles and guarantee your status as the most valuable member of your team.
1.…Lose Your Manners, Lose Your Job
Because the US post office is trying to stay alive amidst threats of major cuts from Congress, and with postage being so expensive even at bulk rates: I took advantage of USPS’ new EDDM program, in an effort to see if my company could be an even better corporate citizen.
EDDM allows you to help …