Branding Yourself As Perfect For A Specific Opportunity
Are you branding yourself as a strong candidate for a range of opportunities?
It does for most of you, because that’s how we all were taught how to write resumes, creating a single document that would interest employers for a range of opportunities.
The problem is, you think this is a good thing.
… but …
Branding Your Resume As Technologically Current
Most employers today look for employees that already know how to use the software that employer uses. Branding Your Resume is important for employers to know what you can do.
Few employers have training budgets for new employees – to use their training budgets more efficiently, employers want to hire new employees who already have …
Resume Personal Branding Best Practices Part 4 – Concise
Your resume communicates a personal brand in a snap.
That’s the entire purpose of your resume’s personal brand – to communicate a gut-feel first impression that you’re qualified and that you’re a superior candidate.
When your resume gets to a human being, it has to pass two quick snap-judgment tests:
The 6 Second Test: Are…Resume Personal Branding Best Practices Part 3 – Consistency
Your resume creates a unique part of your personal brand.
Your resume is used for a very specific purpose – to get interviews. While you might use other branding tools to help your job search, your resume is still the central personal branding vehicle in your job search.
The third part in our series of …
Resume Personal Branding Best Practices Part 2 – Superior/Commodity
We’ve all been taught to create one multi-purpose resume that could be used for any job we might apply for.
This strategy worked before the days of digital resumes, job boards, online applications, and applicant tracking systems. It worked when there were shortages of candidates.
Branding yourself as a commodity just isn’t good enough anymore …
Top 10 Jobs That Give Back Year Round
With the holiday season upon us, now is a time that many Americans feel inspired to help others in their community who are in need. According to Volunteering in America, about 27% of Americans volunteer at some point during the year.
However, if you’re looking to give back more than once a year and are …
What Angry Birds can Teach you About Getting Hired
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of blogs where author of the best-selling “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever! and professional “headhunter” Skip Freeman draws an analogy between “Angry Birds,” the wildly …
The Strangest Miracle
“I’m not on drugs,” Denise said; her green eyes piercing mine.
I uncomfortably nodded my agreement. I was Denise’s executive job coach. She was an IT professional, a single mother of two children, and highly intelligent and success-driven. Denise was always in control of her emotions, so I found her comment rather odd.
Denise called …
What ‘Angry Birds’ Can Teach About Getting Hired
Those bouncy, chirpy, flipping birds . . . what’s got them going so and why do we care? The pigs have taken the birds’ eggs and are holding them in their lair, which is surrounded by various barriers to prevent entry. Our mission is to get the eggs …
What Can “Angry Birds” Teach You About Getting Hired?
What in the world can “Angry Birds,” the ubiquitous, phenomenally popular game for hand held devices by Rovio Mobile, teach you about getting hired? You might be surprised to learn that the answer to this question is PLENTY!
“Angry Birds” just passed the 100 million downloads mark. If you have …