Today’s post is a guest post by Joshua Waldman (http://CareerEnlightenment.net)
Everyone is on LinkedIn these days. Let’s face it. Almost
every CEO from every fortune 500. Last count was over 60 million users.
In contrast, job boards only have about 3.5% of available
jobs. This is common knowledge in the career industry, but why do so many
people spend so much time on job boards? (continue reading . . .)
By now you understand that finding the perfect job requires more than simply writing a resume and posting it online. In fact, if you are going to take the “apply-on-line” approach you should spend NO MORE than 2 hours per week at it. Less than 5% of jobs are ever posted online, so if you are going to find your next job fast you need to spend your time elsewhere. The successful and savvy job seeker will develop a compelling personal brand and spend 75% of their time (or more) promoting it. Here are 7 key ways to promote your personal brand. (continue reading at http://careeradvice4u.com/7-key-ways-promote-personal-brand/)
If you are going to build a house you will want to have a blueprint. Otherwise how would you know if you were supposed to install a window or a door? How would you keep the roof from falling through the floor without the proper placement of the pillars?
If you are going to develop your personal brand you will want to have a strategy — a blueprint for building your personal brand. Here are the four pillars of that blueprint. (continue reading. . . )
Today is the midpoint of the 30 day blog challenge. I’m writing this post more for my own edification than yours. . . but you are welcome to keep reading. At the half-way point I feel the need to assess where I/we have come. Specifically, I want to look at activities in relation to the goals I set before this challenge began. By conducting the mid-point review I intend to accomplish two things: (read more at )
I’m trying something a little bit different today. On Sunday, December 13 I conducted an interview via Skype with Don Elliott of Elliott Design. Don is a marketing profession and in this video he gives advice on how to build your personal brand based upon his expertise in helping companies develop their own brand presence.
Continue reading: http://careeradvice4u.com/personal-brand-2/
Tiger Woods.
What do you think of when you read or hear that name? Chances are, what you think today is NOT what you thought about 3 weeks ago. I hate to pile on, but . . . well, actually I don’t mind piling on if we can all learn something from it.
Unless you have been hiding under a rock for the last two weeks, you know the story about the most famous golfer of all times and how his reputation (i.e. his personal brand) has been tarnished following the exposure of his multiple sexual encounters. I’m not here to pass judgment on Tiger. Afterall, who DIDN’T see something like this coming? What I want to do in this post is to see what we can learn from Tiger about managing (or mismanaging) our personal brand. Here’s my list: (continue reading. . . )
You don’t really “create” a personal brand. You already have one.
Don’t believe me? Google your name followed by your home town. If you have a Facebook page or LinkedIn profile your name probably comes up on the fist page. Perhaps you are listed in the phone book. Maybe you have recently been mentioned in a local news article. All of these things are part of your personal brand.
Scary? Get over it. . . (continue reading at www.careeradvice4u.com)
Our guest editor, Larque Goodson, appears to be on a health kick this week. In her blog she has written “How and Why to Get Healthy” posts over the three days.
Yesterday she shared with us her story about shattering her ankle on the winter snow in her home state of Idaho. (continue reading . . . )
Behavioral interviews (or behavior-based interviews) have been around since the 1980s and have become a rather prominent form for selecting qualified candidates. The effectiveness of this type of interview has been validated in respected research journals repeatedly. In short, behavioral interviews work when they are done right. Unfortunately, they are not always done right because they are conducted by people who have not been trained to conduct them. (Read more at http://careeradvice4u.com/ace-behavioral-interview/)
Its almost 2010! WOW! Where did the year go?
Have you achieved all your career goals this year? Did you find that perfect job you were hoping to get? Are you satisfied with your job performance? We are in the end of the year “Red Zone” – the time to take a look back at 2009 and prepare for 2010. Here are 3 areas to look at NOW to improve your career next year. This is what I call the “A, B, C’s of Career Management.” (continue reading. . . )
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