6 Ways to Freshen Up Your Online Profile for Fall
Change is good. And changing things up on your online profile can attract attention, whether it’s a recruiter or an angel investor or some new followers.
This fall brings many good reasons for freshening up our online images: Stepped up networking events, new or renewed emphasis on career goals and of course, the expectation that …
How to Conduct a ‘Stealth’ Job Search
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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How do you go about finding a new job when you already have one? Very, very carefully, …
Resume Personal Branding Best Practices Part 2 – Superior/Commodity
We’ve all been taught to create one multi-purpose resume that could be used for any job we might apply for.
This strategy worked before the days of digital resumes, job boards, online applications, and applicant tracking systems. It worked when there were shortages of candidates.
Branding yourself as a commodity just isn’t good enough anymore …
Personal Branding Weekly – Moving from We to Me
Personal Branding Weekly
From working with a career coach to great email etiquette techniques, last week’s Personal Branding Blog posts focused on being authentic, building a brand and even reviewing the political landscape and personal brandings.
Here’s the articles you might have missed:
Cool, Clever Trends Help Personal Branding! by Deborah Shane If I Were…5 Reasons Your Resume Is Killing You
In today’s economy, employers are receiving hundreds or even thousands of resumes every single day. One hiring manager for a Fortune 500 company told me that he recently received over 12,000 resumes for one position!
Hiring managers will not take the time to determine why you should be hired. It’s your job to present your …
Do You Handle Rejection or Does It Handle You?
Dealing with rejection is a major bummer.
Whether it is from a date, a client or a job posting, rejection tends to bring up the worst kind of questions in ourselves: the plague of self-doubt.
“Was it me? Am I good enough? Of course I’m not good enough. I knew this would happen!”
And before …
5 Rules of Thumb for Proper E-mail E-tiquette
I’m currently recruiting for several positions, so I’ve been receiving tons of e-mails from job seekers applying for our open jobs. It was while going through these submissions that I got the inspiration for this post. One of the messages I received was a very brief e-mail with a resume attached. The e-mail simply stated …
Resume Personal Branding Best Practices Part 1 – Crystal Clear
Your resume makes an immediate first impression on your audience.
If your resume gets past automated pre-screening, your human audience reacts to your personal brand in two immediate ways. In the first 6 seconds of a visual review, your reader decides if you’re qualified or not based on gut feel (based on TheLadders recent heat …
Job Search Improvements: Customize Personal Branding For Maximum Effect
Most job seekers use traditional job search techniques, branding resumes functionally and by level. You need to customize personal branding in order to stand out.
However, some smart job seekers customize their personal brand, fitting individual employer needs.
The traditional method: Functional and management level brandingTraditional job search techniques had been the same for …
Instant Access to the Underground Job Market
I’m sure you’ve heard the stats that 80% of jobs are never advertised.
And yet the vast majority of job seekers compete, day in and day out for the same 20% of jobs that have the most ruthless competition and the lowest likelihood of resulting in a job offer.
It makes no sense and job …