Personal Branding Weekly and Email Still Matters
Do you know how to prepare for an interview now? How do you feel about the importance of cultural fit and your VPs (they’re just as important as VPs are to a business)? These are just some of the topics covered in this week’s Personal Branding Blog articles along with a couple …
5 Ways to Prepare for an Interview
Visualize Your Success and It Will Come!
“Fortune favors the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur
On a recent business flight, I struck up a conversation with a career coach who is the wife of one of the world’s leading musicians and the mother of a rising star in the world of classical percussion. Her son had recently won first place in a …
9 Lesser-Known Strategies for Building Your Brand’s Credibility
What’s your favorite little-known secret for building your brand’s recognizability… radio show? Writing a book? Leading a cause marketing campaign? Reality TV?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free …
‘Cultural Fit’ and Your Personal Brand
So what is ‘cultural fit’ and how does it relate to personal branding? A recent article in Forbes, Employers Hire Potential Drinking Buddies Ahead of Top Candidates, got me thinking about this question. After all, your qualifications and credentials are the table stakes that will get your foot in the door, but your character is …
Should Working from Home Be Banned?
In the past 20 years a lot of companies have adopted a more open model about where employees can do their work. Some allow employees to work from home. Some allow employees to selectively work from home or otherwise remotely. Some actively encourage employees to work from home … or at least somewhere other than …
Parent Entrepreneurs: When the Personal Crowds Your Personal Brand
This is the second in my series of mommy entrepreneur profiles. But I need to rename this series because of the feedback I got from said “mommies.” The phrase mommy entrepreneur didn’t sit well with them. My goal was to conjure up images of innovative female businesswomen carving out new ways of integrating work and …
Making Sense of All the Recent Changes on LinkedIn
If LinkedIn is an important part of establishing and maintaining your professional image, your professional brand—and it definitely should be!—then you may be among the millions of people on LinkedIn who, because of some significant changes recently made by the site, are confused, confounded, and, yes, perhaps even a little bit angry!
Some of LinkedIn’s …
How to Build a Powerful Resume
Though the majority of the career world raves about video resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and personal blogs for the use of recruitment, the truth is that resumes are still a necessity for the majority of job positions. If you’re experienced and are going after a position at an early-stage tech startup, then perhaps you can get …
Keep Your Brand Name Intact When a Reporter Calls
What is your #1 tip for a nervous entrepreneur about to talk to a reporter for the first time?
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program …