Want a Better Career? Smile More.
I have been leading a volunteer job seeker workshop for the past six years. My mission in this workshop is to help active job seekers improve their job interview effectiveness.
By now, you are probably guessing that the first thing I tell the participants in my workshop is to smile more. This is also the …
What the Interviewer Wants to Know about You
Interviewers have a specific function to perform. They need to go through a selection process that identifies which one of the candidates called in for interviewing is the best one. But what does best mean in this context? What are the criteria involved in making this complex evaluation? After all, people are complex too, and …
6 Ways to Expand Your Personal Brand Beyond LinkedIn
“If you want to land a job, you need to be on LinkedIn. Period!”
How many of you have heard this advice over and over again? I’m sure by now, everything you’ve heard about building your brand on LinkedIn seems like old news.
Although LinkedIn is an amazing tool for your job search, it’s also …
What You Don’t Know About Yourself is Shocking
This coming weekend, I give the only personal branding boot camp on campus at UCLA. There might be a seat or two left, so if you are in Los Angeles, you might want to come. Why?
If you have failed to get the job you love or you are failing in the career you thought …
Personal Branding Weekly – Affirming Your Goals
It happens to every entrepreneur.
Sometimes it happens several times a week or even a day.
You question – why do I do what I’m doing? Should I do what I’m doing? Isn’t it easier to just work for someone else?
Business doesn’t have to be bad for these questions to arise.
I know I’ve …
4 Tips To Ace Your Next Phone Interview
Phone interviews are becoming more common as companies use that as a way to screen candidates without having to spend the time or money having a face-to-face meeting. Because of that, job candidates have to ace the phone interview if they want to get to the next level of the hiring process.
The phone interview …
Increasing Your Concentration to Improve Interviewing Performance
The ability to focus at will allows an individual to sell themselves more effectively during interviews, to set aside destructive thoughts when engaging with hiring managers and ultimately to pursue career goals with more vigor and accuracy.
Attention allows us to retrieve pertinent information from our memory, evaluate an event or hiring manager’s mood, then …
Want to Improve? Know Your Strengths
We’ve all struggled to overcome something we don’t like about ourselves. Why is it so hard to change a single bad habit? The tabloids have talented and famous people splashed across their headlines who’ve had their careers destroyed by bad habits. You need to focus on your strengths.
Are we all impatient or lazy? Why …
Solopreneurs: Work For Yourself, But Not By Yourself
Running a business as a one-man show is much like plate spinning. There are many tasks that need to be done regularly and sometimes simultaneously to keep a business going. While entrepreneurs should keep an eye on all aspects of their business, trying to do everything is ineffective, can hinder profitability, and is a sure …
Convert Social Media Leads Into Sales
How can your personal brand bring in more sales with social media?
The answer is through targeted strategies, stellar content, and consistent communication. A simple share or retweet is not enough to build relationships online, but rather it’s being an active participant with your community.
In the age when all the big brands are on …