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Career Search and Personal Branding Blog
In today’s job market, you have to be crystal clear on what value you provide, confident you will provide it, and passionate you want to do it!
In my video blog this week, I will show you how to get more job offers by setting yourself apart with a powerful personal brand…
And finally…
Great companies are ALWAYS [...]
I found a very depressing site the other day. It came up when I googled the phrase “I hate my job.” It’s full of people complaining about what they do for a living. And it’s more than just venting. Much of it is not only hostile, it’s hateful. Very few seem to be doing anything [...]
Now that you’ve been promoted into a management position, you are determined to not only avoid being like many of the crappy managers you’ve had, but you want to be a great boss.
The thing is, you’re trying hard to figure out what really distinguishes a good one from a bad one. You might think [...]
Obviously, it’s not just the unemployed that look for new jobs. Many that are currently in jobs, for a wide variety of reasons, look for new opportunities as well.
The process of looking for a new job, however, can present a number of concerns and challenges that an unemployed job seeker doesn’t have to worry about.
What [...]
Recently, I presented at a networking event for local job seekers. There were 3 other career coach-types (technically I’m not a coach, but hey…let’s just call them coaches for this article to make things simple) talking to groups of 2 to 5 people at a time for about 15 minutes.
One was doing resume reviews, the [...]
Pursuing an IT Director role? You already realize that your resume must be written to show both technical and leadership aptitude.
What you might not know is that employers are comparing IT Director candidates based on their ability to show impact at a company level, while looking carefully at the cost savings and business transformation produced [...]
How does your mindset impact your career success?
The dictionary defines mindset as ‘a fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person’s responses to and interpretations of situations.’ I define mindset as your attitude and how you view things.
However you define it, your mindset has significant impact on your life, career and it impacts everything [...]
You have heard the phrase Branding Your Resume repeated over and over, but do you understand why and how?
Why
If you have been looking for a job for more than two weeks you don’t need me to tell you how competitive it is out there. There are fewer and fewer jobs available and an over abundance [...]
In the past, resumes were often One Size Fits All cookie-cutter productions, and the idea was to produce a document that strictly followed accepted conventions and the final product was intended to be a comprehensive fact sheet that told perspective employers all about the duties and responsibilities a person acquired in their previous positions.
Then more [...]
The most problematic part of a resume for people seems to be crafting their accomplishments. The confusion between an accomplishment and a responsibility is the difference between generating excitement by selling what you can do, and making a bland statement that elicits the question “So what?” It’s the difference between being invited in for an [...]
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