How to be Yourself on Social Media While Staying Professional
It’s almost necessary to be social media savvy these days, so much so that there seems a frenzy to be seen as the coolest, most down-to-earth, real, caring and/or opinionated person on the Internet.
Because social networking has been lauded as a key to career momentum and growth, individuals are running in droves to the …
Branding Success Gets Personal
When it comes to online marketing and engagement, branding success is now about the individual – up close and personal – as a main driving force in promoting your personal brand. Samsung demonstrated this quite well in a recent example during the 2014 Oscars with the use of their cell phone by Ellen DeGeneres. What …
Millennials Meet Your New Business Partners
Every minute for the next 20 years, 7 Baby Boomer’s will be reaching retirement age.
Let that sink in.
Every minute. Of Every Day. For the next 20 years. 7 Baby Boomers are reaching retirement age.
That’s 10,000 Baby Boomers PER DAY… for the next 20 years.
Note: I did NOT say they are retiring. …
Building Your Target List – The Targeted Job Search
Your target list should contain companies that could hire you. You should be looking for companies that are looking for your skill set. This is step one of Target the Company and Quit Chasing the Job or the Targeted Job Search.
Let’s cover four sources to find these companies.
1. Your friends…
Google Plus as an Effective Branding Tool
Over the last couple of years Google Plus has grown into a prominent social network, used by many personal brands and companies like Starbucks and Microsoft. And with the recent release of Google “Hummingbird,” influence on this network is more important than ever. This is a great time for personal brands to tap into a …
4 Tips for Crafting the Perfect Elevator Pitch
Imagine yourself as a recruiter at a networking event.
It’s in a behemoth of a room and there are hundreds of eager job seekers clamoring for your attention.
You talk to person after person after person for hours at a time about a similar topic, getting handed resume after resume until they start to form …
Reboot a Sagging Business
I belong to a mastermind group, in which a member recently shared that he was suffering near financial ruin after lagging sales in his business. Business profits ebb and flow and it can be hard to know how much to save during flow times to survive the ebbs. When business slows down, not only do …
How Do the Happiest People Find Their Career?
“Do what you believe in”—Greg Baldwin, President of VolunteerMatch
I recently had the privilege to interview Greg Baldwin, President of VolunteerMatch: the award-winning VolunteerMatch.org service and the Web’s largest volunteer engagement network. Greg joined the founding team in 1998 as its Chief Imagination Officer to build a website to make it easier for good people …
How Diversity in Your Career Can Get You Hired
In today’s economy, workers often switch jobs frequently, and even re-invent entire careers. But if your resume includes jobs in a number of industries or professions, does that signal to potential employers that you’re good at many things—or good at none? A jack of all trades or a dilettante? Employers often say they want flexible …
On Social Media, You Are the Company You Keep
Are you wondering how to best balance personal and professional business connections on social media? If your personal connections are in stark contrast to your personal brand for business, the answer may be that you cannot.
According to Careerbuilder.com, over 65 percent of employers check social media profiles as part of the job screening process. …