Is Your Personal Brand Going to Make You Obsolete?
Caution: Is your personal brand going to drive your success throughout your working life, or–at some point–is your brand going to make you obsolete?
Today, thanks to Dan Schawbel’s pioneering efforts, a lot of attention is paid to building personal brands. An equal amount of attention is paid to addressing the issues involved in maintaining …
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! …
Three Reasons Your Personal Brand Needs an Elevator Pitch
As a personal brand, one of the most important things you need in your tool belt to effectively help other people understand who you are, and how you can help them, is an effectively crafted elevator pitch.
While the thought of creating an elevator pitch for yourself may feel like a daunting task, here are …
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 …
How to Meet People in a Room Full of Strangers
What do you do when you find yourself in a room full of strangers and don’t know anyone? Maybe you’re attending your first networking event. Maybe your spouse brought you to their office Christmas party. Maybe you’re attending your first ever industry convention and are at the networking party. Whatever the reason, people often have …
Who Is Your Professional Catalyst?
Each of us have a few people in our lives who got us started down the paths we’ve followed. It could have been an English teacher who encouraged you to write that started you down the path to being a writer, or a supervisor at work who put you on a project that led to …
Personal Branding Weekly: Focus On Who You Know
Personal Branding Weekly – Editor’s Note:
We had a great interview with Ryan Holiday and guest blog posts from Brian Hawkins and Glassdoor this week! Our ever stellar author team brought to you Olympic-sized conversations and tips about thinking, working and volunteering globally. All with a focus of leap frogging your career, personal brand and …
Top 5 Reasons You Never Hear Back After Applying for a Job
People often wonder why they never hear anything back after they hit ‘send’ on the email with a resume attached or on the on-line job application. If you’re very lucky, you might have a preliminary email exchange with a recruiter and then never hear from them again. It’s a depressing experience, and one which also …
Build Your Brand on a Shoestring Budget
How can you build your brand when you’re on such a thin shoestring budget that you don’t even have a smartphone, and having an Internet connection at home is difficult. Is it even possible to establish your brand online? You bet. Here are a few ways you can do some personal branding while you’re keeping …
3 Reasons Why Networking Leads To Easier Interviews
Networking makes the interview process easier.
No employer will admit this or agree with this publicly because every employer wants you to think its hiring and HR practices are uniform for all applicants and employees. Based on my own experience and some “off-the-record” conversations with employers and hiring managers, that’s a load of garbage.
Without …