The ‘Virtual’ Talent Pool: The Next Level Of Competition
Guest post by Todd Rhoad
Background
According to Charles Grantham and James Ware, executive producers of Work Design Collaborative LLC, an estimate of 12% of the working population serves their organization as part of a distributed workforce. This estimate is expected to grow to 40% by 2012. This trend ushers in the changing face of …
BusinessWeek Columnist Christine Comaford Answers Your Questions
As promised, BusinessWeek Columnist, Christine Comaford answers the questions you posed in the comments section of my post on Monday. After reading the answers to your questions, Christine has yet another give-away for you. Both Christine and I hope you all have a great weekend. Her note is below:
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Hi Everyone,
WOW. What great …
Stay True to YOUR Personal Brand
Guest Post by Ryan Stephens. Ryan is a twenty something attending graduate school in Texas. He fancies himself an entrepreneur and writes about relationship marketing, social media, eCommerce, and other elements of business as it relates to Generation Y, on his blog, Ryan Stephens Marketing. He is also the co-founder of the Top 10 Gen …
Remarkable Personal Brands Get Endorsements During College
This is a guest post by Jess Neill. Jess is one of Seth Godin’s lucky summer interns. There was a lot of competition for this internship program and just by networking with Seth, I’m sure Jess’s personal brand will never be the same. During the rest of the year she will be studying advertising, new …
Improve Your Personal Brand With a Makeover
I will be in Last Vegas until Wednesday, so here is another guest post for you. This post was contributed by Heather Johnson, who is an industry critic on the subject of how to become a nurse. She invites your feedback at [email protected].
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Personal branding is all about a perceived image, so the best …
College Student Clash: How to Find Balance When Building a Professional Yet Realistic Brand
Today’s guest post is by Rebecca Corliss, who is a young professional from Boston. She is a recent graduate of Boston University, beginning a new career in technology PR. She’s dabbled in violin, clarinet, guitar and piano– and even began her college career majoring in music before her switch to PR. Her new blog, “Music …
When Prospects Buy You They buy your brand
While I’m in Las Vegas for EMC World, I’ll be running some guest posts by personal branding evangelists. Today’s guest post comes from a top commenter on this blog by the name of Luke Harvey-Palmer, all the way from Australia (you have to love the internet). Luke is a personal branding consultant there, with a …
A Brand Assessment of the 2008 Presidential Candidates
I was asked about 50 times to do a brand evaluation of the presidential candidates, but I really can’t voice a strong opinion because I have no interest in politics and haven’t been following the race closely enough to make a full analysis. Brandon Wright was one of the people who asked me and so …
Guest Post: Developing a Compelling Personal Brand Image
Developing a compelling personal brand image still remains essential to winning and keeping management’s faith. Since the massive downsizing wave that swept the 1990’s, management has begun to suffer the same pains as the blue collar workers. Everyone is overworked and unable to focus entirely on any one thing. Professional development in the corporation has …
Guest Post: How to Stand Out and Get Your Dream Job or Succeed in the One You Have
For students finishing up their college careers or even business people looking to succeed in their current jobs, no question is more common than “How do I stand out?”. As one of our readers, “John Con”, put it in one of our previous posts,
What do you wish you did/didn’t do in college that would …