All your hard work is paying off. You've defined your personal brand, created your resume and other career marketing materials, and otherwise prepared for job search. You've made networking connections and landed interviews. Because you conducted industry and company research early on, …
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Are Thank You Notes Important in Executive Job Search?
Thank you notes are too often overlooked by too many job seekers. These days they seem to pay less attention to good manners and etiquette throughout the job search process . . . Which makes these positive qualities an even more powerful asset to those who always display them. People with …
7 Things Successful Executive Job Seekers Know
Many executive job seekers — especially at the c-suite and senior level — don't understand that job search doesn’t look or work quite the way it used to. The digital age greatly impacts today's job hunt, but the new ways are not always the best ways. In some cases, the tried and …
29 Biggest LinkedIn Mistakes Most Job Seekers Make
You’re in executive job search or expect to be sometime soon. Are you making serious LinkedIn mistakes that can keep you from reaching your career goals? Let's say you put up a bare-bones LinkedIn profile a while ago because people told you it’s the thing to do. Now you’re thinking about job …
Social Media Snark: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
With acknowledgment to Irving Tressler, who wrote his parody of Dale Carnegie's famous "How to Win Friends and Influence People", both published in 1937. I originally posted this article in 2010. Social media snark is much more pronounced today, so this may seem tame. Even so, a lot of what happened …
