5 Reasons Your Resume Is Killing You
In today’s economy, employers are receiving hundreds or even thousands of resumes every single day. One hiring manager for a Fortune 500 company told me that he recently received over 12,000 resumes for one position!
Hiring managers will not take the time to determine why you should be hired. It’s your job to present your …
Do You Handle Rejection or Does It Handle You?
Dealing with rejection is a major bummer.
Whether it is from a date, a client or a job posting, rejection tends to bring up the worst kind of questions in ourselves: the plague of self-doubt.
“Was it me? Am I good enough? Of course I’m not good enough. I knew this would happen!”
And before …
5 Rules of Thumb for Proper E-mail E-tiquette
I’m currently recruiting for several positions, so I’ve been receiving tons of e-mails from job seekers applying for our open jobs. It was while going through these submissions that I got the inspiration for this post. One of the messages I received was a very brief e-mail with a resume attached. The e-mail simply stated …
Five Personal Branding Tips for Musicians
Some of the best and worst personal branding practitioners I know are musicians. The good ones promote the bejeezus out of themselves everywhere and anywhere they can. The bad ones book a gig, post something to Facebook (maybe), send a few posters to the venue, and leave it at that.
Here are five personal branding …
Personal Branding Redemption
My job as an online reputation manager has brought me face to face with many high and low profile individuals living some of the most difficult, testing and trying times of their lives as they found themselves in the eye of the storm in reputation crises that threatened to derail their careers. When thousands of …
I Need Your Help: Sharing a Personal Branding Struggle
Personal branding reader, I could really use your help.
It’s always easier to dole out advice to other people, but, as I’m sure you can attest, applying personal branding words of wisdom to your own big plans can be messy, soul-searching work. Seeing yourself through the eyes of a colleague or client almost needs to …
Be Authentic – To a Point
The other day, I was at an event where the speaker was advising attendees about the power of authenticity. During the Q&A, one of the audience members raised her hand and asked about how much authenticity the speaker advised. As the audience member explained, she was just beginning a career as a freelance copywriter, but …
When it’s ‘Safe’ to Say, ‘Hey, Boss, I’m Looking!’
Editor’s Note: This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, Career Stalled? Publication is scheduled for late fall.
At what point during her new job search do you suppose Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo, …
Expect Delays, Even When There is No Sign
An early morning a couple weeks ago I was headed to a work conference. It ended up that this conference wasn’t at the typical convention center or hotel. Instead, it was located at a retreat out in the woods. While scenic, the road leading there was naturally winding and heavily wooded.
At one point, where …
Writing versus Content Curation for Personal Branding Success
Which is better for personal branding success–writing fresh content or curating content written by others?
Content curation has been in the news lately, and there’s a lot to be said for it.
Benefits of content curationContent curation offers an efficient way to build your online visibility and position yourself as an expert in your …