Personal Branding Interview: Jason Buss
Today, I spoke with Jason Buss is a Talent Management executive, strategist and blogger The Talent Buzz. In this interview, Jason talks to us about managing his full-time job and his blog, how he sources candidates, what the best social network is for recruitment, the new employer/employee contract and more.
How do you manage having…It’s Not Enough to Just be a Better Mousetrap
There’s a saying by Ralph Waldo Emerson that many innovators like: “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.”
We love it because the saying implies an invention or fresh idea simply needs to be better than what’s already out there to be successful. All we need to do …
Personal Branding Interview: Jaye Fenderson
Today, I spoke with Jaye Fenderson, who is a college advice columnist for Seventeen.com and the author of Seventeen’s Guide To Getting Into College. We’ve spoken a lot about the economy and it’s impact on employment, as well as tips that regular job seekers can use to get ahead in these tough times. In this …
Webinar: How to Use Social Media to Find a Job in This Recession
You’ve received a lot of free advice on this blog over the past few years, and some of you have even subscribed to Personal Branding Magazine or listened to Personal Branding TV. Before my new book, Me 2.0, hits bookshelves internationally on April 7th, I’m going to be holding a one time only webinar to …
Personal Branding Interview: Nick Corcodilos
Today, I spoke with Nick Corcodilos, who is the host of Ask The Headhunter and author of Ask The Headhunter: Reinventing The Interview to Win The Job. As a headhunter with years of experience, Nick reveals a lot of very interesting information to us in this interview. He talks about what he uses to source …
Graduating in This Economy
In Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, it is argued that the year you are born could have a monumental impact on the success you see in your lifetime. For example, in the 1860s and 1870s, the US economy went through an amazing boom. If you were lucky enough to be born in the 1830s, then you had …
Personal Branding Interview: Lindsey Pollak
Today, I spoke with Lindsey Pollak, who is a good friend of mine and fellow Gen-Y career guru. She wrote a book called Getting from College to Career and has several columns in big media outlets, in addition to speaking and consulting. In this interview, Lindsey talks about what she’s learned from speaking to college …
Train the Trainer in Personal Branding
I was recently asked to conduct a Train the Trainer session with Program Managers for a major university’s continuing education organization. They wanted a brief session on the importance of Personal Branding.
The Program Managers were specifically interested two things:
1. The concept of personal branding as a career tool
2. How incoming students are …
Personal Branding on Display
What if you were applying for a job and as part of the application, you have to write a post for the company’s blog?
There are no other requirements for the post and you can write about anything you want.
This is actually happening right now at an innovation consultancy in Richmond,
Virginia! The company, …
Brand Yourself for the Job You Want in Three Years
Personal branding is a pretty hot topic right now. With such an unstable job market, a lot of people are starting to think about the image they’re projecting to the world. Job seekers especially are doing everything they can to make their personal brand as impressive as possible.
Since you’re reading this blog, you’re probably …