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AOL Email Address Brands You As Technologically Obsolete

Your email is often the first thing an employer sees about you, so it forms part of your personal brand.

Many job seekers don’t think their email address matters. These are the same job seekers who unknowingly make it difficult to be found by email address for their job search and unknowingly brand themselves unfavorably.…

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Resume Botox: 9 Ways Your Resume Can Avoid Ageism

So many 40+ job seekers complain about age bias. But many 40+ job seekers don’t realize that the way their resume brands them may actually cause or amplify ageism.

I talked about this in last week’s column “Is Your Personal Brand Making Ageism Worse?“

This week, let’s discuss solutions to self-inflicted ageism, by examining ways …

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Is Your Personal Brand Making Ageism Worse?

You wouldn’t brand yourself as inflexible, non-current, stuck in your ways, unwilling to adapt new skills, tired, out of touch, retired-on-the-job, unmanageable, unwilling to take constructive feedback, or overpriced … would you?

Well, you certainly wouldn’t brand yourself this way on purpose.

Yet that’s exactly what many 40+ job seekers do, without realizing it.

Could …

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Personal Brand Stereotypes #6: Ageism Puts Gen-Y in Danger

I hope everyone is enjoying this personal brand stereotype series. I think a lot of encounters we have with others go unnoticed and some of the ways we react to physical appearance can either hurt or help another person. The funny thing with personal branding is that sometimes you have little to no control over …