Visibly Mobile
At coffeehouse in San Francisco with the whirring of a coffee grinder in the background, James Alexander- Founder of Vizibility, the company that helps you to take control and manage what people find about you on Google, spoke with me and generously shared some updates with his company. They’ve just launched their mobile friendly search …
Branding Yourself To Be Headhunted
So, you’re looking for a new career opportunity, either because you have lost (or expect to lose) your current job OR because you are one of the many ready to “test the waters” now that the economy is getting better. In fact, there are about 108 million currently employed …
Look For Your Next Job While You Have This One
I’ve got a friend, Lyle, who is scared in his job right now.
Lyle is 48, working for a large organization, and figures he is only holding on to this job by the skin of his teeth. Lyle spends his days keeping his head down, not offering any opinions, and avoiding trouble of any sort. …
Dick’s 40 Year Affair With “Parachute”
I had the pleasure of interviewing Richard Nelson Bolles, author of the #1 brand in the job search / career management genre on Friday, May 13, 2011. The 40th edition of What Color is Your Parachute? will be released August 15th and, at age 84, Dick is redoing the entire book.
The man and his…The Difference Between Job Seekers And Successful Job Seekers
Picture it. Sicily, 1942. If you’ve ever seen “The Golden Girls” a flashback of Estelle Getty as Sophia telling her famous stories likely just ran through your head. She was a great storyteller as are many of my six aunts. Just last week, while mourning the loss of my dear Uncle Joe, my Aunt Joan …
Stop Applying And Start Competing
Are you still APPLYING for a job instead of COMPETING for one? In today’s hypercompetitive, brutal job market, where there are still many more job seekers than there are jobs, you had better be doing the latter or you’re going to end up missing the boat entirely! Still, many job seekers apparently either don’t want …
Career Coaches Can Transform Your Life In 3 Days
The expression “making a living” doesn’t even make sense! How do you make a “living” working?
Professional career coaches set the record straight by distinguishing between living and working.
Definitions and meaningsSomehow, our ‘terminology” got really messed up. There is a profound difference between making a living (how you live) and working at a …
What It Takes To Ace Today’s Popular Video Interviews
What’s free, has 663 Million users, has an app for every smart phone from the iPhone to Droid and Blackberry and can be used on either a Mac or PC?
If you said skype you’re in tune with the video technology, launched in 2003, that has become a popular choice for many of today’s hiring …
SECOND Most Used Website By Recruiters And Companies
Chances are, many if not most of you reading this blog already have your professional profile posted on LinkedIn, the Number One site used today by both recruiters and companies to locate highly qualified people for their open positions. Another site you certainly won’t want to overlook, however, is ZoomInfo (www.zoominfo.com), the SECOND most used …
Personal Branding Interview: Deborah Shane
Today, I spoke to Deborah Shane, who blogs here and is an author, entrepreneur, radio host and expert. Her new book Career Transition-make the shift-the 5 steps to successful career reinvention is available now. In this interview, Deborah talks about how you know when you need to reinvent your career, how to go about reinventing …