The Daily Misogi: Helping You Establish, Maintain Your Brand
Editor’s Note: This blog is an adaptation of a chapter in “‘Headhunter’ Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever!” by Skip Freeman.
In previous blogs we’ve examined a variety of the substantive, “nuts and bolts” methods and approaches you can use to create and maintain the “brand” that …
Video Killed the Job Seeker’s Chances
“Video Killed the Radio Star” led the charts in 1979 as the debut album for The Buggles and was the first music video shown on MTV at 12:01a.m. on August 1st, 1981. Video has now turned it’s destructive nature on unsuspecting job search candidates looking to amp up their brand with hot technology in hopes …
Winning Face-to-Face Interview by ‘Leading the Witness’
In “‘Headhunter’ Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever!” I make the following statement, right up front, in the Introduction & Overview:
“. . . as we enter the new decade, there actually are two sets of rules being used to play the (hiring) game:
The old rules…One Resume Change That Will Significantly Increase Your Results
Remember the days of black and white TV? What about when couples read the newspaper over their morning coffee rather than flipping the virtual pages of the WSJ app on their iPads? Those days have passed, at least for most of us (my mom still watches black and white TV) and so has the resume …
Turbocharge Your Job Hunt with SimplyHired!
If you’ve read “‘Headhunter’ Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever! or any of the hundreds of articles and blogs I’ve written over the last several years, you already know that I strongly caution against making online job hunting the major focus of your job hunting efforts and …
Work For Free. It’ll Grow Your Brand.
Over dinner recently, a smart and successful friend of mine made this comment:
“If I had an 18-year-old son, I would tell him this: ‘You can go to college if you want. But if you want to be 25 and successful, go find a rich person and offer to work for them for free. Learn …
Act Better, Live Better
On Thursday, the Screen Actors Guild Foundation is producing the grand finale of a four-part series on personal branding. After months of smart people sharing wise words about blogs, social media and other tactics to network with employers (in this case: casting directors, producers, directors and development executives), about 200 people are gathering in the …
Dick’s 40 Year Affair With “Parachute”
I had the pleasure of interviewing Richard Nelson Bolles, author of the #1 brand in the job search / career management genre on Friday, May 13, 2011. The 40th edition of What Color is Your Parachute? will be released August 15th and, at age 84, Dick is redoing the entire book.
The man and his…Career Coaches Can Transform Your Life In 3 Days
The expression “making a living” doesn’t even make sense! How do you make a “living” working?
Professional career coaches set the record straight by distinguishing between living and working.
Definitions and meaningsSomehow, our ‘terminology” got really messed up. There is a profound difference between making a living (how you live) and working at a …
4 Biggest Personal Branding Mistakes People Make
When you’re creating your personal brand, there are a few pitfalls you need to watch out for. They’re basic mistakes, but a lot of people still make them, and hurt their chances to make an impact in their job search or their campaign to boost their workplace reputation. Here are four of the biggest personal …