Monthly Archives: November 2009
Job Search Help: The Hidden Job Market
Over 80% of today’s jobs aren’t advertised. With 5 applicants for every job opening, finding the hidden 80% is essential.
Build Your Personal Brand on the Web With Our Site Builder
A strong personal brand online must have a home base. This is a website that at a minimum describes the unique value you provide, states your qualifications, provides your contact information, and links out to the rest of your presence on the web. If you haven’t started your own home base website, it’s easy: start
Build Personal Brand Online: 5 SEO Don’ts
For the most part when you start to create your website your SEO strategy should be very straight forward. You want to make sure you are doing basic things such as using your full name as you want people to search for it. You should also be making sure that you are creating a strong
Social Media Success Stories: How Gwen Darling Got a Job via LinkedIn
I hope that everyone is enjoying our interview series about professionals getting jobs because of their proactive use of social media! Today I have the honor of introducing you to Gwen Darling who has a very interesting, unique and inspiring story of how she got a job offer because of LinkedIn. In this story you
5 Unconventional Tactics To Build Your Personal Brand and Get An Interview
There are thousands of resources out there that teach you the “process” of how to get an interview. Sure getting that resume tight, practicing potential questions and doing your research about the position is essential but these days that usually just isn’t enough. I remember sitting down a few months ago after reading 96 resumes
Twitter Success Stories: How Mark Cummuta Got a Job Through Twitter
To continue with our series on job seekers getting jobs through social media, I would like to introduce you to Mark Cummuta. I found Mark via Twitter and found out subsequently that he received his latest job offer because of Twitter. Coincidence? I think not! What’s your background and how did you first get started
Your Personal Brand Online: How to choose a name to SEO for
One of the most important steps in figuring out how to build a personal brand is determining what name you will create a strategy around. For most people this is a daunting place to start. Perhaps you have gone by a name for your whole life and now suddenly you have figured out that when
Personal Brand Building on Facebook: The Do’s and Dont’s
Facebook is growing fast and as their list of users grows so does the list of people getting hired, fired, embarrassed and shunned. Before we jump into some of the classic do’s and dont’s of creating a personal brand via Facebook, lets take a look at the truly staggering growth of the social network juggernaut:
Difficult Interview Questions
Going into an interview can be one of the more stressful events that you have to endure during the job search process. During an interview a potential employer can throw anything at you as far as questions are concerned and you should be prepared. We have already talked about the process of preparing for an
How Involved is Your Personal Brand Online?
To build your personal brand, you should proactively participate in conversations and blogs related to your field. How involved are you? To answer this, we developed a Hireability Dashboard that breaks down the components of your personal brand online and grades the strength of each. Last week, I talked about our tool that grades the
