Personal Branding Interview: Ryan Paugh
Today, I spoke to Ryan Paugh, who is the co-founder and community manager at Brazen Careerist. Ryan is one of my good friends and I had the pleasure to connect with him close to when I started blogging a few years back. Ryan, along with Penelope Trunk and Ryan Healy (also good friends), have re-launched …
My Personal Branding Journey Part 10 – Reflecting Back and Moving Forward
This is the last post in our series where we follow Marcos Salazar’s personal branding journey, as he uses the concepts and four-step process outlined in Me 2.0 for his own career.
It’s been an amazing month sharing my personal branding journey with all of you. I have received great feedback, engaged in some interesting …
Personal Branding Interview: Peter Bregman
Today, I spoke to Peter Bregman, who is the author of Point B, a consultant and blogger at Harvard Business School Publishing. In this interview, Peter talks to us about leadership in corporations, how people change everyday, not using your gut to make decisions, how to climb the corporate ladder and why failure is a …
How to Use Linkedin to get the Job You Want
If you want to get a job in this economy you better lose the “depression mindset” and start using social media to open more doors for you. Despite all the garbage you hear on TV about job losses, some companies are hiring, but they won’t come looking for you. You must go find them.
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Social Media Does Not Prepare You For…
So I’ve been doing a whole lot of interviewing for a Social Media Manager position here at SocialMediaMarketing.com. With so much content online about interviewing best practices, I thought that everyone would be an expert in interviewing, especially if you hang out in the blogosphere. There are so many career blogs out there with solid …
My Personal Branding Journey Part 9: Maintaining Your Brand
This is the ninth of ten posts where we follow Marcos Salazar’s personal branding journey, as he uses the concepts and four-step process outlined in Me 2.0 for his own career.
About a year ago, I received an email from someone who had commented on a post of mine on a series about postcollege depression. …
Personal Branding Interview: Dave Ulrich
Today, I spoke to Dave Ulrich, who is one of the most well-known HR thought leaders in the world, winner of many awards and author of many books, such as HR Transformation. In this interview, Dave talks to us about talent management, how to retain employees, five categories of leadership, if social networks should be …
Distinct or Extinct: 8 Tips to Turn Mundane Projects into WOW Projects That Build Your Brand
Can you remember the last time you completed a “WOW” project? A project you’ll still be bragging and chortling 10 years from now, as Tom Peters would say? If not, rest assured that you can make your work matter – but only if you take proactive steps to make it work for you.
Every assignment…Personal Branding Interview: Martin Yate
Today, I spoke to Martin Yate, who is the New York Times bestselling author of the Knock’em Dead series of career books and is now an evangelist for GoSavant, a video-based career training center. In this interview, Martin gives his top resume and cover letter tips, shares some insight into how he’s built his personal …
Personal Branding Interview: Gary Vaynerchuk
Today, I spoke to Gary Vaynerchuk, who I also interviewed for the sixth issue of Personal Branding Magazine. This time, he’s back and his new book, Crush It!, is coming out soon. I caught up with Gary before his life becomes crazy and asked him questions about his marketing platform, traditional media against new media, …