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Use Our Blog Recommendation Engine to Develop Your Personal Brand
To build your personal brand, you should proactively comment on blogs related to your field and interact with bloggers in your industry. To help you get started, we developed a Blog Recommendation Engine that suggests what blogs you should be reading based on your field. It taps into a variety of authoritative blog sources including
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
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
Resume Writing Tips – How to Write a Career Objective
Including a career objective in your résumé may seem like a no-brainer, but believe it or not it can be controversial. While some see a career objective as a good way to explain your goals in as precise a way as possible, others believe it may limit you when applying for jobs. However, there are
Personal Branding Tips – Brand Yourself with Effective “Elevator Speech”
The most effective elevator speeches I’ve used have been concise and value based. The following is an example. Please input your own information and PRACTICE it enough times so that it becomes as natural as saying your name when meeting someone new. Try to minimize the advertisement or tendency to talk about yourself. It is
Your Personal Brand Online: 5 Ways To Organizing Your Personal Web Site
Personal Web sites are becoming increasingly more popular among career-seekers, and for a good reason. They allow you to maximize your resources so employers can see beyond the single-page list of your previous jobs. These tips will help you to better organize your Web site so that you become much more influential in the multi-media
Interview Guide – How to Avoid A Bad Interview
I ran across the site www.howtonailaninterview.com a few weeks ago and ended up watching every last one of their hilarious bad interview videos. After stalling productivity over here at the Brand-yourself.com headquarters for a good 10 minutes as we all watched one bad interview faux pas after another, I felt obliged to write a post
How to Develop Your Personal Brand: Making You Hirable and More Desirable
“A qualified employee must be organized, possess skills in word processing, and be a team player.” Sound familiar? These are some of the basic qualifications many employers look for in an employee, and unless you’re planning on joining the circus, you don’t exactly need to know how to juggle fire to be considered “qualified.” However,
Simple Job Search Tips: How To Complete Your LinkedIn Profile
Many people have trouble getting their LinkedIn profile to 100% completion. Of course, I always have sage advice for these people, but yesterday I created a profile for a friend, and I can’t get it to 100% myself. And none of the expert friends I have can say why.
Online Reputation Management: Leaving Effective Forum Comments For Your Online Reputation
Commenting on forums demonstrates your ability tap into your expertise and help solve other people’s problems. Employers will search for your name in Google, and they will find the forum comments you’ve left – which is a good thing. Use forum comments as a way to strengthen the digital breadcrumbs you leave behind. Your goal