Turbocharge Your Job Hunt with SimplyHired!
If you’ve read “‘Headhunter’ Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever! or any of the hundreds of articles and blogs I’ve written over the last several years, you already know that I strongly caution against making online job hunting the major focus of your job hunting efforts and …
The 5 E’s to Extraordinary Results
3 Ways to Destroy Your Personal Brand in One Day
You’ve spent a lot of time building your personal brand. Don’t ruin all of your hard work by doing any of these things:
LyingNo one likes a liar. And those folks who have built a well-respected personal brand tend to be the ones that fall the hardest when they’re caught in a lie (Tiger …
Who Asks You for Advice?
Being indispensable is a good threshold test for measuring the success of your personal brand. Being indispensable – the right person to answer the question or otherwise direct the action – means you are the ONE, the ONE we count on to get it right or make us right or otherwise make the right thing …
Personal Branding on Google+
[Note: this post was first published on AMEX OpenForum.com]
Our personal branding strategy may soon include Google+. This new breed of social network has features you won’t find on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or LinkedIn. The Google+ technology allows you to filter and group your friends into “Circles,” which reflect how we decipher relationships in real …
67% of Employers Plan to Increase Hiring Soon
It’s about time that job seekers, and economists alike, heard some good news about hiring particularly in light of this month’s unemployment figures with an unemployment rate of 9.2% and a mere 18K new jobs, 92K less than expected.
According to Jobvite, the leading recruiting platform for the social web, 67% of companies will increase …
Work For Free. It’ll Grow Your Brand.
Over dinner recently, a smart and successful friend of mine made this comment:
“If I had an 18-year-old son, I would tell him this: ‘You can go to college if you want. But if you want to be 25 and successful, go find a rich person and offer to work for them for free. Learn …
Prevent Extinction: Engage Your Contacts
Social media has become the new platform for advertising, marketing, and most importantly a communication channel and exchange for your brand. It seems that most businesses, both big and small, are making sure that they have profiles and pages in Facebook, Twitter and other social sites so they can reach and engage a wide audience.…
Networking Without Neediness
How do you meet people at a dinner or networking event? How do you approach a total stranger without coming off too aggressively or being seen as looking to make a contact to better one’s self?
Steve Boyle of No Excuses, No Regrets Basketball, asked me that question via email a few months ago, and …
Job Hunting? Don’t Let the Media ‘Paralyze’ You!
As a job seeker, if you take everything the media has to say about the current job market literally, you’ll quite probably feel like skulking away and hiding in the nearest hole until things get better. I’m here to tell you, though, if you are job hunting, you shouldn’t let what you read or hear …