Branding For A Job Vs Branding For An Opportunity
Most job seekers brand themselves for a job because that’s how we’ve been taught to write resumes.
We’ve not only been taught to write resumes branding ourselves for a job, but it was reinforced while there were candidate shortages – because you could make lots of mistakes in a forgiving job market.
But in a …
Say, Show, Repeat: Personal Branding Secret Sauce
The purpose of your personal brand is to communicate with your target audience — potential clients, employers and people who might be able to refer you to them.
And, doubtless, you’ve taken time to think long and hard about who your audience is, how you can help them and why they should choose to work …
Strategies to Maximize Your Job Opportunities
In order to bridge the gap from college to your first career you need to know yourself; what do you bring to the table and what drives you, what you value and what …
How Do You Handle the ‘Low-Ball’ Salary Offer?
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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You literally breezed through all the preliminary “screening” steps in your quest to land a GREAT new …
Branding Yourself As Perfect For A Specific Opportunity
Are you branding yourself as a strong candidate for a range of opportunities?
It does for most of you, because that’s how we all were taught how to write resumes, creating a single document that would interest employers for a range of opportunities.
The problem is, you think this is a good thing.
… but …
How to Fight Age Discrimination
Being out of work is hard, being unemployed and in your 50’s can be impossible. While companies won’t admit it, age discrimination does exist, particularly in a tight job market where there are many more candidates than job openings. Although the problem crosses both genders, older women reentering the job market can have an even …
What A Massive Pimple Can Teach You About Resumes
Imagine that you have a big first date tomorrow night. You’ve been excited but nervous about this date for the last week. The person you are going out with is HOT and you want to make a great first impression. Unfortunately, you woke up today with a massive pimple on your forehead. Hey, zit happens.…
Build Your Brand Through Developing Your Self-Awareness
A key component of developing your personal brand is to understand your strengths and weaknesses. It can be difficult to step outside of our self-perceptions and take a critical look at ourselves, but the process of doing so is imperative to increasing our self-awareness and focusing our brand towards areas where we are confident we …
Getting to Job ‘Finish Line’ Taking Longer Today
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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You were a literal “shoo-in” during the initial job candidate telephone “screen.” You also sailed through the …
Branding Your Resume As Technologically Current
Most employers today look for employees that already know how to use the software that employer uses. Branding Your Resume is important for employers to know what you can do.
Few employers have training budgets for new employees – to use their training budgets more efficiently, employers want to hire new employees who already have …