Enhance Your Brand with MOOCs
Have you ever wished you had gone to Harvard? Well now you can – by taking a MOOC! MOOC stands for “Massive Open Online Course” and Harvard has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create an online learning environment called edX. These two prestigious universities have joined forces to offer free non-credit courses …
The 3 C’s of Effective Engagement
This post is relatively short by design. It’s focused on three things that are both easy and hard to do. I hope you can use them for your end of the year planning and for your 2013 goal setting.
These are what I’m calling the Three C’s of Social Engagement.
ContentThe ability to create, …
Cover Letters – Poor Choice For Job Seeker Branding
Most job seekers use cover letters to try to differentiate themselves, but cover letters are a lousy way to differentiate yourself as a job seeker today.
Your personal brand is the first impression you give to readers.
Your personal brand is used to decide if you’re qualified or not. TheLadders’ heat mapping study of how …
Three Tricks to Get Your Email Opened
We all know that getting over the inbox hurdle can be a challenge. Whether you are trying to land an informational interview, a sales call or a job interview, getting your email opened is the first step to success.
The challenge is that people routinely get dozens – even hundreds – of emails in their …
There’s an App for That: Apps for Job Seekers
These days, there seems to be a mobile app for absolutely everything, and job seekers have not been forgotten. Search “jobs” in the Android or iTunes stores and you can spend hours browsing through the hundreds of apps that have been developed to promote jobs, give advice, and prepare you for the interview.
Below are …
Expand Your Brand on a Busman’s Holiday
Want to expand your personal brand and find a way to pay for some vacation time at the same time?
Try a busman’s holiday.
A busman’s holiday is a vacation where you spend a lot of your time doing the same thing, or at least something similar, to your regular job.
The term is originally …
5 Tips for Increasing Your Odds for Success
Everyone has heard about the Powerball winners from a few days ago. One of the winners let the computer pick random numbers. Which statistically is just as likely to succeed as taking a more measured course by selecting favorite numbers. All in all … Good for them. I hope they do great things with their …
Presents aren’t The Only Thing the Holidays Bring…
It’s that time of year again and you know what that means…
As we roll into December, managers and employees across the country prepare for everyone’s “favorite” things, performance reviews!
While a performance review is less than fun (both for those having to put them together and for those who they are about), it is …
Branding Value vs Skills
Most of us brand our skills when creating a resume.
We brand our skills because that’s what we were taught to do.
Up until 2007, employers searched for skills because there was a shortage of skilled candidates from the 1940’s until 2007 … So employers searched for skills.
Since employers searched for skills, we were …
Find Your Dream Job? Develop Rare and Valuable Skills!
What does it really mean to find one’s “dream job” or one’s “dream school” or dream anything? I would like to explore this topic for the sake of redefining dreams as they relate to our career choices and to consider how managing our notion of dreams correspond to ones happiness. Dreams are by definition a …