Job Search Improvements: Customize Personal Branding For Maximum Effect
Most job seekers use traditional job search techniques, branding resumes functionally and by level. You need to customize personal branding in order to stand out.
However, some smart job seekers customize their personal brand, fitting individual employer needs.
The traditional method: Functional and management level brandingTraditional job search techniques had been the same for …
The Parent Dilemma
Parents want what is safe and secure for their children. Growing up, my mom and dad told me to get good grades, go to a great university, and get a high-paying job after I graduate. They also encouraged me to get my MBA and work hard so that I can climb the corporate ladder.
But …
5 Tips for Protecting Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn
LinkedIn has become arguably today’s most valuable job searching tool, providing it’s users with endless possibilities for networking, connecting with colleagues from the past, and promoting and developing their businesses. But did you ever stop and think that the way in which you use LinkedIn could actually hurt your job search prospects? Well it can! …
Letter to an Unemployed Friend
Dear friend,
As I write these lines, I don’t know what your specific life circumstances or background are. I don’t know either how it is that you came to be unemployed, though in all likelihood it means that you are looking for your first job, that you were made redundant or that you voluntarily left …
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 …