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Advice on Personal Branding is NOT Useful
The current popular buzzword of job search personal branding has taken on an almost mythical status. Almost every article and blog in the job search arena talks about personal branding. Yet, almost all the recommendations and suggestions are so generic that the advice on job search personal branding is NOT useful.
Good intentions – not enough [...]
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Does Anybody Read or Care About Cover Letters
The debate rages on about using cover letters. Do I need one? What is the best format? What should be in it? Who do I address it to? How long should it be? And on, and on, and on.
I have asked many of my clients and other recruiters about their feelings on cover letters. [...]
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Traditional Resumes Are Worthless
In almost 30 years as an executive recruiter, I have looked at at over 100,000 resumes and through our candidate university coached/instructed hundreds of candidates with their job search. One consistent theme in all of this is that candidates receive a lot of mixed messages on resumes. Too often candidates lose sight of the real [...]
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Job Search Mistakes – Part Two Radio Show
Are Your Job Search Mistakes preventing you from conducting an effective job search? Is your job search taking too long? Learn how to overcome the Top Ten Job Search Mistakes to reduce the time it takes to find a great job. In a previous radio show, we discussed the first 5 of the Top Ten [...]
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Don’t Be the One! How is your job search like playing a high school sport?
You’re probably wondering what your job search effectiveness has to do with high school basketball. It’s the start of the basketball season in California – be ready for lots of my corny basketball metaphors.
We have a saying on our Girls HS Basketball Team that goes like this “DON’T BE THE ONE!” This mantra we use [...]
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Your Job Search Effectiveness is Predetermined
Liz Lynch, one of the foremost experts on networking, is a guest blogger on The Personal Branding Blog. A few days ago, Liz posted a blog titled “Prep for the Future with Lessons From the Present”
Liz wrote about why some job seekers might be falling short in their job search — and by extension – [...]
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Job Search: On-line vs. In-Person 1st Impressions
Chad Levitt, a guest blogger at Dan Schwabel’s Personal Branding Blog posted a blog a few days ago titled “What is Your Digital First Impression?” Chad claimed that making a digital first impression was very similar to making a personal first impression. He inferred in the blog posting that when people are searching for you [...]
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Why is building a job search network worthless?
Building a job search network is usually worthless since that is the end goal for most people. Contrary to popular opinion, size does not matter (at least initially). The most important goal of networking is engagement.
Regardless of whether you build your network on-line or off-line, you still need to provide value to your network. Keith [...]
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Misperceptions about Selling in the Interview
How do you interview? Are you listening or pitching?
Interviewing is a sales presentation. Forget your traditional image of a pushy sales person pitching a canned response. Instead, use solution selling to uncover all the reasons the hiring manager should select you for the open job.
Miriam Salpeter described a recent article in Entrepreneur Magazine in her [...]
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Tip To Overcome Interviewing Problems.
A preemptive strike works:
I came home from work one day, and had just walked in the house, when my son came up to me to tell me we needed to talk. He is too young for the birds and bees and probably knows that anyway, so I knew something was up. He explained while [...]
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