AOL Email Address Brands You As Technologically Obsolete
Your email is often the first thing an employer sees about you, so it forms part of your personal brand.
Many job seekers don’t think their email address matters. These are the same job seekers who unknowingly make it difficult to be found by email address for their job search and unknowingly brand themselves unfavorably.…
Stand Firm On Your Speaking Rates
One of my problems as a professional speaker is that I’ve often been too willing to speak for free. This bothered my wife and my business partner to no end because, they said, my time and knowledge are worth something, and that I’m devaluing myself by speaking for free.
So I finally took the time …
Is Taking It Easy a Good Thing?
As Ferris Bueller said in the 1986 movie, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” This was true then and is even more true now. Over the Labor Day weekend, I took it’s purpose to heart and did some thinking.
Our lives as …
What do The 10% do Differently?
Frightening but true: only ten percent of people who’ve undergone radical surgery to save their lives actually change their habits to benefit from the operation. From Harvard Business Review, we learn that those clotted, fat-filled arteries are pretty much refilled with more grease and cheese, rather than kept open with a better diet and exercise …
The YEC Retooling and Retraining The American Workforce
Editor’s Note: The YEC is an organization that partners with us and authors many blog posts here. The YEC seeks to retool and retrain the American workforce with mentorship from successful startups.
America’s Top Entrepreneurs and Citi Set Out to Mentor the Nation’s Aspiring Business Owners
This Labor Day weekend, the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) …
Resume Botox: 9 Ways Your Resume Can Avoid Ageism
So many 40+ job seekers complain about age bias. But many 40+ job seekers don’t realize that the way their resume brands them may actually cause or amplify ageism.
I talked about this in last week’s column “Is Your Personal Brand Making Ageism Worse?“
This week, let’s discuss solutions to self-inflicted ageism, by examining ways …
3 Reasons Why Your Personal Brand Strategy Requires Video
Remember when you first created a website? You needed to include a newsletter sign-up, then decided to add social elements like Facebook and Twitter…but later Pinterest and Google+ came along. It seems like there is always something NEW to explore.
So as the summer ends and you get back into work mode, it’s time to …
Is Your Personal Brand Making Ageism Worse?
You wouldn’t brand yourself as inflexible, non-current, stuck in your ways, unwilling to adapt new skills, tired, out of touch, retired-on-the-job, unmanageable, unwilling to take constructive feedback, or overpriced … would you?
Well, you certainly wouldn’t brand yourself this way on purpose.
Yet that’s exactly what many 40+ job seekers do, without realizing it.
Could …
6 Ways To “Riff” Daily
Artists, musicians, comics, speakers, trainers, athletes, performers all do it-they “RIFF”. That “rapid energetic often improvised verbal or non verbal outpouring especially one that is part of a performance”.
Most of us remember “Riff’s” of great rock, jazz and yes classical musicians, bands and performers, we listen to and are fans of. What we love …
How to Meet People in a Room Full of Strangers
What do you do when you find yourself in a room full of strangers and don’t know anyone? Maybe you’re attending your first networking event. Maybe your spouse brought you to their office Christmas party. Maybe you’re attending your first ever industry convention and are at the networking party. Whatever the reason, people often have …