Branding Years Of Experience
Age 40+ job seekers can face ageism when they apply for positions at many companies. One of the triggers for age discrimination is the personal brand a candidate chooses on their resume.
The changed reality of today’s job market is that years of experience aren’t as valuable as they used to be. When experience loses …
7 Tips for Hearing More and Doing More
Listen up! Yes You! Listen up!
It’s not just for coaches and teachers anymore. Give the person speaking the courtesy of your attention. Your conversations will go smoother and faster. You will be able to get more done in less time.
This is especially true for face to face meetings. It is also true for …
2013 Shaping Up as Great Year For Career Move!
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 early 2013.
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While I am certainly not a prophet, the facts strongly suggest—with a high degree of probability—that 2013 …
One Sentence You Should Never Say at Work
Our jobs can be a challenge amidst all the change that invariably is happening at our companies. Whether we are at a fast growing start-up, a huge corporation adapting to new market conditions and competitors or somewhere in between, odds are this is a reality of work.
No matter what your job, company or industry, …
Personal Branding Interview: Tim Ferriss on The 4-Hour Chef
I recently spoke to Tim Ferriss, who is author of the #1 New York Times best sellers The 4-Hour Workweek and The 4-Hour Body. He’s been called “The Superman of Silicon Valley” by Wired, one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and “the world’s best guinea pig” by Newsweek, which ranked him in its …
Branding Your Resume For Intelligence
You know that you’re smarter than the average bear, but how can you give your resume reader that first impression?
Most job seekers try to do this directly, using adjectives that say “I’m smart!”.
Since most of us have average intelligence, few employers believe direct statements – everyone feels they’re smart, while many candidates have …
Are You Your Last Name?
There is a man selling his last name. He’s ready and willing to take whatever last name YOU assign to him, for the right price. The bidding starts at buymylastname.com.
This isn’t so strange if you know the man, Jason Sadler (or whatever you or any other winning bidder chooses for him to use through …
Job Search Tips for International Students
According to the Institute of International Education, there were almost 725,000 international students studying in the United States in 2011, a 32 percent increase compared to a decade ago. While it can be relatively easy for international student to find a school to attend in the U.S., getting a job here is a very different …
Should My Real Name Be My Domain Name?
For a long time, businesses could be successful by buying a domain name that exactly matched the keywords of what they did. For example, if you owned a keyboard sanitizing service, you would buy something like KeyboardSanitizing.com.
Without any extra work, you could occupy a top 5 ranking on Google, easy peasy, thanks to the …
Never Negotiate for Yourself
There is a simple reason for why you should never negotiate for yourself. It’s too hard to be objective. I’m suggesting you think like an agent.
It’s much easier to ask for what you want when you are negotiating for a 3rd party. Even if that third party is your pet goldfish.
Why a 3rd…