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Using the Internet to Find the Perfect Job

In my last piece I discussed online job applications but I’d like to take a step back for a bit. I am always amazed when I ask people where they found or came across a particular job posting.    Hopefully, by now you have some sense of the type of career you’d like to pursue and [...]

Give Your Brand Some Flavors.me

If you are serious about personal branding, you should be blogging and feeding that content to your accounts on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Once you get going, you’ll probably also have other accounts on places like Youtube and delicious. Having a landing page is a good way to provide people interested in you and your [...]

Finish the Back to School LinkedIn Challenge

If you started four weeks ago with the first phase of the Back-to-School LinkedIn Challenge, you should now have a rather stellar LinkedIn profile. Now it is time to start getting more out of LinkedIn. (1) Research companies. In addition to an overview of the company, LinkedIn provides “Key Statistics” about companies such as headquarters, [...]

Social Media: Will it help you sink or swim in your job search?

I know that many, if not all of us, use or have used social media for fun. It’s a part of our daily routine – sitting in front of the computer, checking Facebook status updates and friend requests, keeping track of new followers on Twitter.  As it turns out, though, social media is now being [...]

Be Creative: Using a Visual Resume

You may have spent hours editing your paper resume, trying to polish the short job summaries, thinking about which action verb best describes your accomplishments and the skills you acquired. Your resume may be very good and representative of what you could bring to a company. It may even be outstanding. Yet chances are that [...]

Sharon Markovsky’s Personal Brand

Sharon Markovsky was an MBA student in a personal branding course I taught at The University of Nevada, Reno in January, 2010. In just eight short months, Sharon has created what I think is a very effective personal brand. Sharon blogs regularly at Sharon Markovsky’s Practical Discussions of Marketing, producing valuable content that makes her [...]

BrazenCareerist Wants to Know: What Does It Mean to Be in the Driver’s Seat of Your Career?

This Wednesday, BrazenCareerist is hosting a nation-wide meetup called ”Meetup Everywhere: Crowdsource Your Career”. Across the country, people will gather to discuss what it means to take control of their career and life. These meetups will be filmed and Brazen will compile the conversations into one awesome video montage of what is sure to be an amazing collection of ideas. Pretty cool, [...]

Authenticity vs. Persona

This post isn’t intended to dispense career or personal branding advice.  Rather, I’m hoping it will stir conversation, or at least thought. This morning as I drove to work, NPR was airing a piece (text version is here) on what they present as something of a new trend of female pop stars creating and, in [...]

The Back to School LinkedIn Challenge Phase III

Welcome to Week III of the Back to School LinkedIn Challenge! This week, I want you to focus on the concept that your LinkedIn profile is truly your resume – on steroids. Utilize your LinkedIn profile to include all of the experiences and accomplishments that there was not room for on your one-page resume. Take [...]

The Back to School LinkedIn Challenge (Phase II)

The feedback about Phase I of the Back to School LinkedIn Challenge has been great! Several students emailed me, connected me with LinkedIn or even tweeted me that their LinkedIn profile was at 85%. That’s superb! Please remember that your online presence is not just quantity, but also quality. Take the time to write a [...]

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