Schawbel Report: The Current State of Personal Branding Worldwide [March 2008]
David Sifry, who is the founder of Technorati, used to always make a “State of the Blogosphere” report. These reports would analyze the amount of blogs being tracked on Technorati (a blog search and ranking system) and other metrics, including how many posts per minute. Relative to when he last did on in April 2007, …
Do Loyal Employees Exist Anymore?
No doubt the biggest challenge we have as a personal branding community is organizations feeling that we aren’t loyal. This is especially true for the stereotypical gen-y employee. From the human resources perspective, they want to hire loyal employees because they can add more value to the organization of the duration of their stay. By …
Research Report: Top 25 Most Wanted Personal Brands of 2008
I’ve spoken about how there is an economic recession and how there were 70,000 job cuts in January, which is the most since March of 2003. Well, I have good news for the personal brands that are in demand by companies.
Jobfox has released their “Top 25 Most Wanted U.S. Professions” listing, and was nice …
Authors Corner: When Brand Name’s Go Wrong
Today is not such as laid back Friday. Since I was born and possibly before I was born, my last name has been tortured. When it comes to personal branding, your last name tends to be the most significant because of the uniqueness in identifying who you are and your family connection.
From elementary school, …
Let Jobs Magnetically Come to Your Personal Brand: 4 New Solutions
The job and career development sites just keep getting better. I’ve been speaking of the goal of personal branding for a while now and my prayers have finally been answered, or so I hope. Basically, the end result of personal brand management is recruitment based on your brand. Instead of proactively searching for jobs, your …
The Future of Online Recruitment – One:One Relationships
I’ve been thinking about relationships for the past few months and even at the time when I was applying for jobs. Believe it or not, the future of online recruitment is in relationships, not resume submissions. I’ve learned that through networking, you can skip steps in recruitment, as well as become recruited based on your …