Networking
Why Compelling Personal Branding Can Lead to your Dream Job
Why would we be talking about personal branding in your job search? Isn’t personal branding just for famous people or maybe entrepreneurs? Identify your Personal Branding Target Your job search must be targeted. You need to know where you want to go. “I want to work in finance” is way too broad. From that statement,…
Read MoreHow to Gain Job Search Momentum in Tough Times
The challenges of 2020 never fail to amaze and sometimes horrify me. Tough times do not describe 2020 or the start of 2021 Between the pandemic and all the ramifications to work and our lifestyle to the months-long election process and the natural disasters of hurricanes, fires, and tornadoes, it impacted everyone and every facet…
Read MoreDon’t ever think your next job will be your forever job!
If COVID taught us nothing else, it is that the concept of forever job doesn’t work. Recognize you alone must be captain of your destiny or as Jason Alba once shared, you must be CEO of you! (This is one of the reasons Jason created his Six-Week Daily Audio Job Search Program, now included in…
Read MoreDon’t call the month IN the month!
When I relaunched my Design Resumes business at the end of 2009, I determined if I was to be successful in propelling my side hustle business to the next level, I needed expert help. I spent the prior two or three years learning about this magical new marketing concept called social media and the related…
Read More3 ideas to help get a better response to job postings
Anything is a better response than nothing, right? Too often job seekers tell me they hear nothing when they apply for jobs. Intrinsically, this shows me there is a problem. First clue? The words: Apply for jobs. You may have heard my rant about online applications before so if you have, be patient. Online job…
Read MoreWhen your strategies get sloppy
If you are honest, I bet you can think of times when your strategies get sloppy. All of us suffer from inconsistency sometimes and I think the modern era of so many conveniences has actually made us more inconsistent. We use tools inconsistently. For example, I use Twitter but then I pop in and out.…
Read MoreDon’t treat LinkedIn as a job board
If you only treat LinkedIn as a job board, you miss the boat. Periodically, I get someone who is not on LinkedIn and they will say something like: I actually don’t have a LinkedIn yet. I never set one up because I did not believe it was necessary. Up to now, it has been easy…
Read MoreHow to expand your network one person at a time
When your network is too small or non-existent, finding a new job is nearly impossible. However, in the age of social media – which is less than 20 years old, you can rapidly build and nurture a network. Expand your network one person at a time I am a believer in building networks very personally.…
Read MoreHow do you show industry expertise to hiring managers?
You may not think of job search as marketing, but it is. Many job seekers struggle with how to show industry expertise and increase the chance of being hired. In reality, this is the same struggle marketers have with promoting services or products. How do you get the market to see the value in the product?…
Read MoreWhy do some people struggle to land a new job?
You understand that it is hard to land a new job. Some people seem to struggle more than others. What makes it easy for some people to land a new job? Let me give you a list of some things that make it easier. Some will be obvious. Others, not so much. A great value-driven…
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