Career Coaching: Getting Help Is for Wimps?
I just finished working with a client who landed a new job that better utilizes her talents while offering greatly improved income, promotional opportunity, and company environment/culture. At the end of our multi-month journey together, she said to me without prompting “I couldn’t have done it without you.” Her comment was personally flattering and reaffirmed …
Turn Your Spare Time into Extra Income
Do you want to have an additional income source other than your full-time job? Or maybe you are only employed part-time and you need more work. If you want to find out how to earn some extra money, keep on reading.
Nowadays companies are trying to cut their costs and unfortunately, the easiest way of …
Why Don’t People Follow Good Advice?
Do you ever feel like your good advice is wasted on the people you give it to?
In a recent research project, visitors to McDonalds and Subway restaurants were given slips of paper letting them know their recommended daily calorie total. Actually, the way the research project was run: some were handed a paper with …
What is your LOT in Life?
Last week I attended the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Houston. One point was brought home during one of our evening events by a friend I had only known in Social Media circles. We had never met in person. Yet we run in the same circles. We work with a lot of the same …
Importance of Keywords on LinkedIn and on Your Resume
If you want recruiters to find you and email you directly even before you apply to any job postings, you should definitely use keywords on your LinkedIn profile and on your resume.
Recruiters do not always look for candidates for a single position. They generally try to hire for several positions at the same. Therefore, …
What’s your Strategic Narrative?
Storytelling has been around since humans began communicating. Whether it was in the form of cave drawings or primitive grunts. The earliest stories were developed as a way to help current and future generations survive. As speech evolved, stories evolved too. Stories were developed to help share values, beliefs and even hopes and dreams. The …
Believe in Yourself to Brand Yourself
If you want to move on to the next step in your career, you need to convince others that you can do it. In order to convince others, first you need to convince yourself and start believing in yourself.
A few weeks ago, one of my good friends opened up to me and she said …
Four Strategies for Your Job Search Networking
Various studies have found that 45% to 70% of job seekers got their jobs through networking. More recently, a survey by Lou Adler discovered that 60% of the job seekers he surveyed found their jobs through networking. In a recent article titled Hire Economics: Why Applying to Jobs Is a Waste of Time, Mr. Adler …
Personal Branding Weekly – 1 July 2013
This week kicks-off summer vacation season for so many. We see that here at the Personal Branding Blog with many of the authors taking a hiatus during the summer. Thankfully, we have many so willing to contribute their time and talent to share their insights in a weekly blog post.
This week we also focus …
Responding Well is an Art Form
When you are faced with a decision do you make a Snap Decision or a calculated and Measured Response?
Different situations can call for one or the other. If you are driving and someone steps into the street or a car veers your direction you will need to implement a quick response. If your customer …