Twitter Personal Branding Q + A #2
Answers to recent questions people are asking on Twitter about personal branding.
Branding for career purposes only or notMohammed S. Al-Taee, @maltaee, twittered: Is personal brand depend on person career/occupation?
Jacob Share, @jacobshare: No, your personal brand doesn’t need to revolve around your profession, it depends on what your personal branding goals are. Many …
REPORT: Professional Networking Dominates Job Boards
As you a already well aware, I believe that job boards won’t exist in the future and that the transaction between hiring managers and applicants will be completely networked. Therefore, your network will become your only insurance policy and people will become the ultimate asset to your career. You won’t be conducting a job search …
The 5Ps of Marketing
Marketing, by definition, is creating a positive environment for exchange. It could be exchange of goods and services. Yet, in today’s economy, it also includes the exchange of human resources for financial resources.
You as the productViewing yourself as the product that you are marketing, might help you in wrapping your mind around the …
Advanced Techniques for Using LinkedIn to Change Careers
We all know that a tough economy means you have to set yourself apart from other candidates, especially if you are changing industries or functions. Here are a couple tips for using LinkedIn to conduct research and establish contacts within the new industry you are targeting.
Industry ResearchFirst, use the search feature at the …
Personal Branding Interview: Jason Alba
Today, I spoke to Jason Alba, who is a good friend of mine and one of the first bloggers I met when I started out a few years ago. Jason is the founder of JibberJobber.com, as well as the author of two books, a DVD and various other projects. In this interview, Jason tells us …
The Lost Opportunity Costs of Not Creating Your Personal Brand
Everything in life has an opportunity cost associated with it. By choosing one thing you are as a result unable to chose another — choose to spend one hundred dollars and you give up the ability to save one hundred dollars — choose to go to the movies and you can’t go to the beach …
Your Network is Your Only Insurance Policy
Last Monday I stated that the future of job hunting is people searching and I received a great reaction to it with over a hundred retweets and twenty-three comments. The main idea with this concept is that the web has broken hierarchies and connected everyone in disperse networks, so that you can reach employees at …
Use Personal Branding to Get Ahead at Work
As the market for jobs becomes increasingly competitive it’s important to build your personal brand to differentiate yourself. As the economy stabilizes and eventually recovers employers are going to be very selective in whom they hire. The best jobs are going to go to those with the right amount of experience and ability to communicate …
Personal Branding Interview: Louise Weir
Today, I spoke with Louise Weir, who is the Marketing and Communications Manager for Career Services at London Business School. In this interview, Louise gives us advice about taking a job abroad, interviewing over the phone, some interview tips for MBA students, and ideas on how to use LinkedIn for job searching.
When seeking a…Focus on What’s Next
Last week, at the World Innovation Forum, the words of one speaker really stuck with me.
“I don’t care about best practices,” said CK Pralahad, author of The New Age of Innovation. “I’m much more interested in next practices.”
By ‘best practices”, Pralahad was referring to the management practice of trying to squeeze every little …