Archive for December, 2008
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Are you blaming the recession for your failure to find your next best job?
According to Sital Ruparelia, in his pithy list of 10 Ways YOU Stop Yourself Getting the Right Job,
“You can sit around all day complaining about the markets and the recession – but if you’re not making progress with your job search, stop [...]
Executive Job Search Advice from the Wall Street Journal’s Laid Off and Looking Blog
Monday, December 29th, 2008A compelling resource, this WSJ blog offers a candid and personal approach to the current executive job search scene, networking, and how to measure success when searching for employment.
As the blog home page states, “Laid Off and Looking follows 8 out-of-work MBAs as they look for new jobs in a post-meltdown world. Each writes about [...]
Leveraging Twitter to Market Your Personal Brand
Friday, December 26th, 2008Peg Corwin, a volunteer at SCORE Chicago, has put together a monster list of 52 links to posts on getting the best out of Twitter in the following areas, by many social media experts, including Chris Brogan and Jeremiah Owyang:
→ Why Twitter for Business?
→ Getting Started with Twitter
→ How to Use Twitter Better
→ Community Building on [...]
Free Holiday Gifts to You From the Personal Branding and Marketing Experts
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008Drew McLellan, a national branding expert, has put together a gift bag of ebooks you can download for free (and re-gift, if you want), including a bunch of his own:
Drew’s free stuff page
Joan Stewart’s The Best of the Publicity Hound’s PR Tips of the Week
Chris Brogan’s ebook on personal branding
Seth Godin’s Flipping the Funnel ebook
John [...]
Top 10 Trends for 2009 C-Level Executive Job Search and Personal Brand Management
Monday, December 22nd, 2008With the crushing recession and today’s highly competitive top-level executive job market, differentiating your unique brand-value promise online and offline has become the best way to position yourself above the rest.
Here’s what every top-level executive needs to be working on just to keep pace with their competition, in job search and overall healthy career management:
1. [...]