Building Your Personal Brand Through Volunteerism
Whether you’re in between jobs, in school, or working full time, volunteering is a great way to build your personal brand. Sharing your time with non-profit organizations can help you build your network and develop your skills while doing some good for your community.
Volunteering shows you’re team oriented. When you give your time to …
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
When it comes to personal branding, you can invest all the time and effort you want in to creating well-worded profiles, resumes, cover letters, and “About Me” websites, but if you don’t back up your written communications with constructive interactions, all of that work will be for nothing.
Your personal brand is best developed through …
Do You Have Any Questions? Preparing Questions for Interviews
When getting ready for an interview, it is important to not only prepare yourself to answer the questions you may be asked, but also questions that you can ask the people who are interviewing you. Many job seekers get so excited about finally getting an interview opportunity that they forget that interviewing is a two-way …
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 …
5 Tips for Protecting Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn
LinkedIn has become arguably today’s most valuable job searching tool, providing it’s users with endless possibilities for networking, connecting with colleagues from the past, and promoting and developing their businesses. But did you ever stop and think that the way in which you use LinkedIn could actually hurt your job search prospects? Well it can! …
Why Job-Seekers Should NOT Use Letters of Recommendation
Attention spans are extremely short and time is very limited in today’s fast-paced, digital society.
Don’t force a hiring manager to read through a 5-paragraph letter of recommendation (of which only a few sentences really enhance your perceived value anyway). Here are two better ways to use references and referrals as self-marketing tools during your …
Mind Your Manners: 6 Tips for Writing Thank You Notes
If your parents are anything like mine, you’ve learned to say “thank you” when people give you things. Whether it be a gift, a ride, or a compliment most of us would offer a hearty “thanks” in return for someone else’s generosity. The interview process is no different. As someone who interviews for a living, …
5 Tips for Filling Out Online Applications
One of the most burdensome components of the job search process is filling out applications. Even on paper, many job seekers don’t take the task of filling out the application seriously. While this administrative task is a nuisance – what you may not realize is that this is often your very first test when applying …
Expect the Unexpected: Good Interviewers Ask Follow Up Questions
As an interviewer, it always amazes me how often I trip people up by asking follow up questions. It seems all of these interview prep books and websites like to just list out questions and canned answers but they don’t prepare job seekers for the possibility that the person conducting the interview is going to …
What’s Up with the One Page Resume Rule?
There’s a bit of conventional wisdom out there about how long a resume should be. Many career advisers, resume writing books and websites, and even some blogs suggest that people should keep their resume to one single page. Job seekers shrink their font sizes, decrease their margins, and use other tricks to try and force …