4 Ways Your Ego is Getting in the Way of Your Job Search
Toeing the line between confidence and arrogance is an easy line to cross during your job search. Sure, you might have strong technical skills and experience. You probably have a great network and personal brand, too. And chances are, you probably can find a colleague who can write you a glowing letter of recommendation. But …
Four Simple Tactics For Social Media Success
Practical tips for making social media manageable and effective.
With the overwhelming number of social media platforms available, many professionals find themselves feeling either left behind or inundated. Social media, when used for business, should be practical. If a network is not making you more efficient, effective, and connected, then you should discontinue its use. …
7 Steps to Spring Clean your LinkedIn Profile
Have you ever wanted to reach out to someone that is already in your LinkedIn contact list, but when you went to their profile their contact information was nowhere to be found? Or, perhaps worse… out of date?
You may not be able to fix the profiles of others, but you can take the time …
Personal Brands : 3 Ways to Avoid the Drama
Popular expressions, proverbs or sayings said in Spanish are known as dichos. A popular dicho is “guardar el drama para su mama”. Translated that means “save the drama for your mama.” For personal brands, that drama can be a reputation breaker – so save it for something or somewhere you’re not involved with coworkers, employers …
Offer Your New Hires Some PDA
Graduation season is upon us. As the interviewing season is in full swing, small business employers are looking to attract some bright future stars while they compete with larger companies. A good way to see if the young talent is a good fit is to offer them some PDA, and see what they do. Nope, …
Five Reasons Your Profession Is Hurting Your Career
When I graduated from college with a degree in electrical engineering, that was the only credential I could use to market myself to prospective employers. In an ideal world, employers would have gotten to know me and determined that I had potential to do many things, tested me to define my talents and motivations, and …
Focus is Everything
There’s a myth in innovation that creativity means letting go and throwing out the box. Everyone needs to open their mind completely and let possibilities flow in from everywhere. There’s no structure – just openness. That’s how you get the good ideas.
It’s a myth because it’s not true – innovation sessions without structure rarely …
4 Ways Social Media Can Blend Personal Brand and Job Search
In your job search, having a great personal brand is a wildly understated way to stand out and better your chances of getting hired.
Social media can be used as a catalyst that bridges the gap between personal brand and job search. According to Jobvite, 94 percent of recruiters use (or plan to use) social …
What Successful People Know About Anger
Anger evolved from the eruption of terror that early man experienced when he encountered a saber tooth tiger, at least that’s the current neuroscience on it. Actually, the latest thinking on all emotions is that they stem from our most primitive response mechanism. That is: every emotion has the potential to stimulate approach behaviors (fight) …
Applying Newton’s “3rd Law of Motion” to the Workplace
Do you realize the laws of physics are in force in the workplace?
Be aware they may not manifest exactly the same in the workplace as they do in the universe.
Let me explain.
Newton’s Third Law of Motion states “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
In physics this always holds …