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Over the last week, our intern and our receptionist left to go back to school. MBA and undergrad respectively. Neither school was teaching either of these smart, high upside, people the skills that they need to be developing and nurturing TODAY. To me, those skills are: Networking. Personal Marketing. Skill Evolution and Development. Networking – Its [...]

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The Keys To Unlocking Your Most Successful Career by Joann S. Lublin from the July 6, 2010 WSJ online is possibly the best article I have read all year about managing your career. Great, great stuff. Five simple lessons. 1. Network effectively. I already love Lublin. You’ve seen me rant about this before. She recommends [...]

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Last night I gave an updated version of my “Managing Your Online Identity: Using Social Media in Your Job Search” presentation to Hannah Morgan’s Career Club in Canandaigua, NY. It is really aimed at anyone who needs to manage their career not just job seekers. Using Social Media In Your Job Search V3.0 Dec 2009 [...]

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Just read  a July 8th article from Knowledge@Wharton: Caught in the Middle: Rising Unemployment Takes Its Toll on Older Managers that will cause you to lose some sleep. Especially if you are believing the hype that “it is getting better out there.” It isn’t. And it won’t. The opening paragraph sets the pace: U.S. recessions [...]

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Interesting read from the Career Strategies section of the WSJ Online  in the last week or so. Beyond Job Boards: Targeting the Source provides me with some more cannon fodder for my Using Social Media in Your Job Search presentation I am trying to give. I was arguing with CareerSherpa’s Hannah Morgan the other day [...]

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Continuing the review of the July 2007 HBR article: Building A Leadership Brand. In my last post, I listed the  Five Principles that go into a LB. Let’s get into a little more detail. Nail the Prerequisites of Leadership. The authors refer to what they call “The Leadership Code” which consists of four elements: strategy, [...]

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The July 2007 HBR has an article I am just getting to on Building Your Leadership Brand. The authors examine companies that focus leadership development on building a general leadership capability versus individual leaders. They refer to this general capability as a leadership brand. They define the LB as a: “reputation for developing exceptional managers [...]

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Continuing with the gaming trend here….The Personal MBA author, Josh Kaufman, posts a list of the business skills/concepts you can learn while playing World of Warcraft. I don’t know about other MMORPGs but WoW has an incredibly rich economic system. By rich I mean that there is a lot to dive into. It is a [...]

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From Career Journal comes an article that is relevant to some of my friends that are currently out searching. The series is the “How I Got Here” which looks at the paths executives take to get to their current high-powered spots that they love. The subject of the post, Avid Modjtabai who is Executive Vice [...]

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