5 Signs Your Personal Brand Has Disappeared
Is your personal brand doing magic tricks on you or has it really disappeared?
As professionals and job seekers, it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day chaos of balancing work, personal lives, or job searching. But when life and careers get too busy, it’s easy to let your personal brand slip away into …
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 …
Super-Size Your Personal Brand on Social Media
Creating a strong personal brand online will help you build credibility in the eyes of followers, connect with influences and will ultimately result in your being contacted by key decision makers for opportunity. However, a powerful personal brand does not happen overnight, nor is it the result of simply “showing up” on social networks like …
Trusted Personal Brand: One Conversation at a Time
The final level of communication for those willing to build a strong personal brand must master is Level 3 Communication, or private, 1:1 communication.
This level is what separates the poor or mediocre leaders from the truly outstanding leaders. To master Level 3 Communication strong Level 1 Communication skills are a pre-requisite, as they will …
Personal Branding Weekly – 22 July 2013
Welcome to a new week with the Personal Branding Blog!
Enjoy and learn from last week’s round-up of great posts and insights:
What Are You Saying to Yourself About Yourself? by Skip Weisman Three Tools to Leverage Your Client’s Brand by Crystal Washington Personal Brands: Are You An “Is, And, Also?” Ok! by Nance Rosen…Be Memorable
In a typical hiring process, it is common for an organization to receive hundreds of applicants for a single job opening, phone screen 10-20 individuals, and hold face-to-face interviews with as many as 5 or 6 candidates. If the employer is looking to hire multiple candidates, this scenario leads to even greater numbers as a …
Build Your Tribe for Career Success
It is great to say you have 500+ LinkedIn connections or thousands of Twitter followers, but are they in your tribe?
In my book, Repurpose Your Career – A Practical Guide for Baby Boomers, which I co-authored with Susan Lahey, your tribe is described as follows:
Your tribe is the group of people who will …
Workplace Etiquette Rules You Should Have Learned in Kindergarten
Workplace etiquette is about more than just being nice to people, or remembering special events, or greeting people with a kind word. Sometimes, it’s something as basic as “don’t be an a-hole,” and yet we still have to remind people of that.
Bonnie Low-Kramen’s post last week on workplace etiquette and the idea of sometimes …
Your Posture May Reveal More Than You Realize!
Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture. -Loretta Young
Straighten out your image by learning to stand up straight! -Beth Kuhel
As a kid I vividly recall my mother reminding me to “stand up straight”, “sit-up tall” and her occasionally scoffing at me for slouching. Her interest in having me …