Interview with the Luke Skywalker and Obi Wan of Recruitment
Today, I spoke with Chris Russell (Luke Skywalker) and Peter Clayton (Obi Wan Kenobi). Since I started blogging, I’ve been following both of these recruiting pioneers and media producers and I wanted to interview both of them simultaneously about their new project, JobRadio.fm. When Chris makes a big move, people watch and when Peter talks …
The Fall of 9-5 Work Days and the Rise of ROWE
Today, I spoke with Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson, which is long overdue. These two are some of my personal favorites because they believe in a virtual workplace, freedom and logical reasoning. Why work 9-5, when you can achieve the same results working when you want to work. All that really matters in business is …
Schawbel Report: The Current State of Personal Branding [July 2008]
A lot has happened since the last time I posted a “Schawbel Report” on the state of personal branding worldwide. The March edition shed some light into the spread of personal branding from the US to Australia to India. There is a lot of information here, but it’s all very important to your personal brand …
Are People More Important Than Projects in the Workplace?
The current workplace
We know the future of the workplace is going to be virtual. We have started seeing this already with the mobile web, as well as the cloud and Second Life. The logic is that at the end of the day, companies just want the work done. They don’t care how it gets …
The Future of Your Personal eBrand is a URL
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The future
I’m still holding onto my future prediction that instead of a resume, video resume, cover letter, portfolio, paper business card, and references document, your personal eBrand will exist as a single URL. You won’t be able to toss 10 different URL’s to hiring managers because they don’t …
Schawbel Report: The Current State of Personal Branding Worldwide [March 2008]
David Sifry, who is the founder of Technorati, used to always make a “State of the Blogosphere” report. These reports would analyze the amount of blogs being tracked on Technorati (a blog search and ranking system) and other metrics, including how many posts per minute. Relative to when he last did on in April 2007, …
Soon Your Brand Will Be Consumed by The Digital Universe
Typically I don’t promote my work at EMC on this blog, but today we are announcing an update to the Digital Universe Study from last year. I was able to attach many social media components to it, such as the social media press release to your right and the YouTube podcast towards the bottom of …
Google’s Social Graph API: The Future of Personal Brand Management
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This video gives a glimpse of the future of our personal brand management. I’ve talked before about how many social networks there are and how people quickly join them and secure their name. There is far too many social networks and more are added each day. We really need to be cautious about which …
The Future of Your Searchable Brand – With or Without Google?
The DLD conference was yesterday and it was held in Munich. The highlight of the event (Thanks TechCrunch) was a session called “Humans Disrupting Algorithms,” in which David Kirkpatrick of Fortune spoke with Jimmy Wales and Jason Calacanis. Jimmy has developed a beta of Wikia Search, whereas Jason Calacanis has been running Mahalo for a …
The Future of Online Recruitment – One:One Relationships
I’ve been thinking about relationships for the past few months and even at the time when I was applying for jobs. Believe it or not, the future of online recruitment is in relationships, not resume submissions. I’ve learned that through networking, you can skip steps in recruitment, as well as become recruited based on your …