Networking Is A Little Give and Take
A secret of effective networking is to give at least as much as you take. If you only take, you’ll get a reputation for that, and in time people ill avoid you. If you give – especially if you give first, without knowing whether or not you’ll receive – people will be attracted to you. …
Do You Feel Like a Nobody?
Nobody likes to be a nobody, but unfortunately, that’s what you are at the beginning of the job search process, provided you’ve just joined the ranks of those in transition. Those who are the decision makers about your future do not initially know anything about you, so you have the chance to impress them, and …
Lou Adler: What Prevents Companies From Hiring The Best Talent
I spoke to Lou Adler, the CEO and founder of Performance-based Hiring Learning Systems – a consulting and training firm helping companies around the world improve quality of hire. In our conversation, Lou talks about what prevents companies from hiring the best talent, the factors that predict a quality hire, why you should never apply …
How to Have a More Successful Website Design With Multivariate Testing
It’s great to have high traffic for your personal brand’s website. How to get these visitors to convert into sales is the next challenge businesses face.
The design and execution of elements are crucial to staying up to date with the latest technology and relevant content. This means your brand should be performing both A/B …
My Most Popular Blog Posts of 2017
This week, I wanted to list my post popular blog posts of 2017. These posts also got republished in some other news sites or blogs and got shared a few thousand times. If you didn’t have an opportunity to read these posts before, now is the perfect time. Below you can find the top 5 …
REACH OUT AND TOUCH SOMEONE — APPROPRIATELY!!
Touch is human, has been for multi-thousands of years. Sure bad people do things in a bad way. That’s not what we are talking about here in the use of good, effective touch.
Physical touch is a communication tool few people take advantage of. It can help you bond with people, not just communicate. Yes, …
Create a Successful Content Marketing Plan for Your Personal Brand
Content marketing is an important element for your personal brand in which your business can establish itself as a trusted expert in your niche. It’s important to reach your target market in an authentic and helpful way.
There are several strategies that can work well for your brand, which can bring more subscribers who can …
Soft Skills in the Age of Automation
For my first post of 2018 I wanted to start you off with three things that will help you more in your career than possibly anything else you’ve read in the past five years that I’ve been writing these posts.
Let’s talk about soft skills.
Soft Skills are critical for career success in the Age …
Gender Difference When Negotiating Salary
For both genders, anxiety before the interview may be present, but studies show that women handle it better. Women adapt more proactively than men do. Women seek social support from colleagues and friends more than men do. And women are more prone to do mock interviews with those colleagues and friends more than men are. …
3 Simple Ways to Increase Empathy at Work
If you want to move up the career ladder, it is not enough to have great technical abilities or know how. You need to have personal skills as well. Think about a manager who is great at technical details but cannot get along with his/her team, then how can this manager manage a project if …