A new client of mine understood that he needed to pump up his online presence. A Google search for his name yielded a dismal number of relevant results, plus he had a common name and the little that was out there about him was lost in a sea of same-named people. To win at executive job search in …
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A Nifty Personal Brand Writing Tool: Wordnik
Most of my work day is spent writing — creating personal marketing communications for my executive clients, blog posts for my 2 blogs, guest-blogs and articles for various other blogs and websites, and my own business and career marketing materials. I love words and I'm always interested in …
Does Your Online Identity Scream “Hire Me”?
Think your online presence, or lack of it, doesn’t factor much into executive hiring decision-making? Think again. Given two equal candidates, in terms of skill sets, education, work history, and all around good fit for the job, recruiters and hiring professionals are likely to choose the one with …
2010 Top 10 Executive Personal Branding and Job Search Trends
Things have changed in the world of work and executive job search. Tried and true methods still apply, but the impact of the Internet and our recovering job market require building a different kind of job search strategy and becoming much more proactive. In a nutshell, what you need to do …
Executive Job Search and Blogging: Perfect Together
Want to know why blogging and executive job search are a match made in heaven? I hear stories all the time from recruiters and other colleagues in the careers industry about executive job seekers who landed plum jobs as a result of blogging. Their stories have a common theme. Recruiters and …
