Archive for November 2009
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Water Cooler Wisdom: Students Need Personal Branding Too
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Those of you who are current students need to
be concerned about your image beyond how you portray yourself in interviews. Here are some statistics to illustrate how your world has changed:
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Personal Branding Blog: 18 Sources of Personal Branding Credibility
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The most important part of your personal branding strategy lies in your bio, which is sometimes called a profile.
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The Career Doctor Blog: How to Approach a Career Change from PR to Marketing
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I was hoping that you might give me some quick advice about how to approach looking at a career change. I graduated with a degree in communications and have been working in public relations for the past two years.
In that time I have come to feel that I should have been a marketing major and that I would be much happier with a career in marketing.
I have found a marketing assistant position that I would absolutely love to take on, but it requires 1-2 years of marketing experience. Would my two years of PR count toward that at all?
Finally, what steps do I need to take to start off in a marketing career?
The Cover letter is the very first thing a prospective employer will see when given your resume. It makes sense then that it should be as strong as possible. Read below for tips and tricks to make yourCover Letter stand out from the competition and be the strongest it can be.
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A Storied Career: What’s the Story of the Story? Narrative Critical Method and the New Leadership Story
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Why does the public buy into stories like the Balloon Boy? Why do the media purvey stories that are often not as they are portrayed to be — and the public gets sucked in?
Those were questions raised yesterday in a thought-provoking teleconference by Paul Costelllo, director of the Center for Narrative Studies in Washington, DC.
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Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips: 7 Elements of a Highly Effective Cover Letter
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The M.A.P. Maker: How are you feeding your tenacity?
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~ Louis Pasteur
Do you want to raise the odds that you will succeed in turning your dreams into reality? Give the heave-ho to the notion that it’s all going to happen with the flip of a switch (because in all likelihood, it won’t). Replace it with a commitment to tenacity.
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The Glass Hammer: Pay Czar Cuts Comp: Can Women Help Correction?
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Secrets of the Job Hunt: Job search 2010 — small is in
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We’ve just been through a brutal economic storm. If you were sheltered, great - good for you. But pay attention anyway, because this storm wreaked havoc on many of the people you’ll meet in the next stages of your career. You are going to meet and work with a lot of people who’ve been burned. So many that the American business landscape is never going to look the same again.
My last article, “Busted, Age Discrimination Reveal” I gave two examples of reverse age discrimination. As a short refresher, I was working two searches for two different companies…
Today’s my birthday. It’s not a milestone birthday like sweet 16, 21, or the hill surpassing 50. It’s just a regular, somewhere-in-the-middle birthday. In fact, it seems fairly insignificant as far as birthday’s go, but to tell the truth, I’m a little sad to see the additional candle on the cake.
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Escape From Corporate America: How to Quit Your Job
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This resignation letter is concise, creative and pretty freakin hilarious.
Andrew is a genius. He is setting his bridges on fire and laughing as they burn.
I love the psychotic threats mixed with prim distaste for lack of “foresight” and “acumen.”
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Secrets of the Job Hunt: Connect your twitter status to Linkedin
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Finally. LinkedIn users will be able to connect their status updates to twitter simultaneously.
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The Career Goddess: Job Search Tips for Gen Y College Grads
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A Storied Career: My Big, Fat Marketing-Storytelling Synthesis: 10 Observations, Part 2
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Continuing interesting story observations folks have made about marketing, advertising, public relations, and branding, from yesterday’s entry …
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Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters Tips: Avoid Wimpy Language in Your Cover Letter
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Avoid such phrases as “I feel” and “I believe.” Your statements will be much stronger without them. It’s best to either leave off the qualifier or use a stronger qualifier, such as “I am confident,” I am convinced,” or “I am positive.” Read more.
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Escape From Corporate America: Attention Career Changers: Free Makeover and 15 Minutes of TV Fame
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A major women’s magazine is working on a TV special and looking for a career changer who could use a makeover to update your look, boost your confidence, and wow them at your next interview or meeting.
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JobRadio.fm: Changing careers? align your image to goals
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Continuing with our career change advice audio series with Chris O a personal branding and style specialist.
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Get That Job: Where do you see yourself in 5 years? – NaPodPoMo Day 10
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Personal Branding Blog: Conversations: The Other Social Media
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As far as houseguests go, the one we had this week was benign. No extra meals to cook, no extra housework, and really no disruption in our lives as usual. However, he was unnerving.
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Squidoo: Great Cover Letter Tips to set you apart from the Competetion
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The Cover letter is the very first thing a prospective employer will see when given your resume. It makes sense then that it should be as strong as possible. Read below for tips and tricks to make your Cover Letter stand out from the competetion and be the strongest it can be.
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Total Picture Radio: Onboard Experts Series #6 - Jean Brown: Connect, Inspire, Persuade: Onboarding a New Employee for Success
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Welcome to a special Inside Recruiting Channel edition of Total Picture Radio, with Peter Clayton reporting. When George Bradt and Mary Vonnegut set out to write Onboarding: How to Get Your New Employees Up to Speed in Half the Time (affiliate link to Amazon.com), they invited a select group of experts to share their knowledge in the onboarding process. In this special series here on Total Picture Radio, we’ll be interviewing, in depth, the individuals chosen by the authors to contribute their experience, expertise, and perspective.
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College Recruiter Blog: When and How to Ask for a Raise
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Secrets of the Job Hunt: Advice for going from military to civilian careers (podcast)
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Janet I. Farley is a highly experienced outplacement career specialist in the job search assistance field. She worked for six years as a military transition counselor and later as a career center manager with the Army Career and Alumni Program at various locations throughout the world. She is also a freelance writer who specializes in job search advice, and the author of Jobs and the Military Spouse: Married, Mobile and Motivated for Employment, Second Edition.
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What Would Dad Say: To Lose Weight, Visualize This
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