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Actions Speak Louder Than Words

When it comes to personal branding, you can invest all the time and effort you want in to creating well-worded profiles, resumes, cover letters, and “About Me” websites, but if you don’t back up your written communications with constructive interactions, all of that work will be for nothing.

Your personal brand is best developed through …

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Tell the Truth With the “Weakness” Interview Question

I’m surprised at the bad advice given when it comes to the “weakness” interview question — “what’s your biggest weakness?” — from career experts.

“Turn it into a strength,” they say. “Use examples like ‘I have to triple check everything before I send it out,’ or ‘I insist on being early for every meeting.'”

That’s …

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Are YOU Laboring in ‘Stable Misery’?

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 late fall.

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We human beings have an incredible capacity to tolerate and adapt to a very wide range of …

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Resume Personal Branding Best Practices Part 3 – Consistency

Your resume creates a unique part of your personal brand.

Your resume is used for a very specific purpose – to get interviews. While you might use other branding tools to help your job search, your resume is still the central personal branding vehicle in your job search.

The third part in our series of …

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Do You Have Any Questions? Preparing Questions for Interviews

When getting ready for an interview, it is important to not only prepare yourself to answer the questions you may be asked, but also questions that you can ask the people who are interviewing you. Many job seekers get so excited about finally getting an interview opportunity that they forget that interviewing is a two-way …

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Resume Personal Branding Best Practices Part 2 – Superior/Commodity

We’ve all been taught to create one multi-purpose resume that could be used for any job we might apply for.

This strategy worked before the days of digital resumes, job boards, online applications, and applicant tracking systems. It worked when there were shortages of candidates.

Branding yourself as a commodity just isn’t good enough anymore …

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5 Rules of Thumb for Proper E-mail E-tiquette

I’m currently recruiting for several positions, so I’ve been receiving tons of e-mails from job seekers applying for our open jobs.  It was while going through these submissions that I got the inspiration for this post.  One of the messages I received was a very brief e-mail with a resume attached.  The e-mail simply stated …