Why do you need to self-Google regularly, whether or not you're job hunting? To know what people who Google "your name" will find out about you. And to safeguard your online reputation and personal brand. Social recruiting is the norm for executive job search Before we hire just about …
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Social Media Snark and Job Search: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
I originally posted the first part of this article in 2010 and I've added to it over the years. Social media snark has become much more pronounced over the years, so the earlier content I left in may seem tame. Even so, a lot of what happened to me back then still seems extreme. [With …
How Do Executive Recruiters Find Candidates?
In conversations with executive job seekers, we discuss how today's executive job search works, including targeting, personal branding, LinkedIn, online presence, and how recruiters find candidates. Sourcing vs. Recruiting Candidates Candidate sourcing is the recruiter's first step. They …
10 Steps to Executive Job Search Success
Many executives contemplating a career move or already job hunting haven’t faced an executive job search in 5, 10 or even 15 years or more. If they’ve changed jobs over that time, they were sought after by executive recruiters and managed to circumvent the job search process. They’ve been …
Job Search Email Mistakes: Careless Email Address and Subject Line
Think about this as you're composing and sending out job search email. In your job search email, you're reaching out to: a recruiter,a hiring manager at a company you're targeting,someone in your network, or someone you don't know at a target company, with whom you want to network. The …
LinkedIn FAQs for Executive Job Search
I've written a series of posts on the various FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) my clients have put to me over the years. They represent the major road blocks and/or executive job search strategies my clients have told me they need help understanding, across various topics: Personal …
How to Balance Personal Branding With Personal SEO
Both personal branding and personal SEO are critical components in successful executive job search today . . . and they go hand in hand. But many people don’t know how to strike the right balance between them, as they write their job search marketing documents and online profiles – executive …
Twitter Executive Branding Strategy: The Beauty of a Retweet
Does your executive job search brand communications plan include Twitter? If so, do you take advantage of the beauty of a retweet? If you’re not on Twitter because you don’t think you’ll have time to come up with enough quality tweets, reconsider. I’m about to explain how you …
How Much Is Enough Social Media for Job Search?
Determining how much time to spend on social media for job search depends on a lot of things. Mostly it has to do with how much time you can realistically devote to it. Let's say you have 3 or 4 hours a day to spend purposefully working on your social media channels. And let's say you’re doing …
Branding Manifesto Part 4 – Little-Used Strategies to Build Social Proof
As part of your personal brand communications plan for executive job search, you need to build social proof. In this, the final part of my 4-part series The Personal Branding Manifesto, we'll take a close look at some little-used ways and places to build social proof. Check out the first three …