I took my brother to Career Sherpa’s Employment Club meeting last night. She walked through her presentation on Using Social Media in Your Job Search. This made me feel guilty, because I was working on an update for this same subject. So – here it is. This goes into a lot more detail this time [...]
Using Social Media in Your Job Search
January 20th, 2011 · No Comments · career, Facebook, linkedin, marketing, personal branding, social networking, tools, Twitter, Uncategorized
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Book Review: Seth Godin’s “Linchpin”
November 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, career, change, Uncategorized
In case you haven’t noticed – in the last 30-50 years – the world has moved on. This has been made very clear in the last 3 years or so where the U.S. has gone through the worst financial crisis since the depression. The way we work has changed. You can’t be a cog in [...]
Tags: books·career·career management·change·leadership·reputation management·Seth Godin
Futureproofing Your Career
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · career, marketing, Uncategorized
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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Catch My Video!
May 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Tags: Facebook·Linkedin·personal branding·reputation management·video
Things I Learned During My Year Long Unemployment
December 31st, 2009 · 8 Comments · career, linkedin, networking, social networking, Twitter
I just signed an offer letter for a small company looking to do big things here in Rochester. (In fact it is about 3 minutes from my house! Bye Bye Jefferson Road!) I had been out of work for a little over one year. That is a long time. I had/have some immediate thoughts on [...]
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Using Social Media to Manage Your Career
December 17th, 2009 · 4 Comments · career, linkedin, marketing, networking, personal branding, social networking, tools, Twitter
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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Using Social Media in Your Job Search
June 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · career, Facebook, linkedin, networking, social networking, Twitter
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Build Social Capital with Social Networking
March 9th, 2009 · No Comments · career, linkedin, social networking
Great article from McKinsey Quarterly “When Job Seekers Invade Facebook”. (You will have to register). With the apocalypse upon us, we are seeing a huge rush to “network” via the social networking tools of the day. I love this quote from the article: “There are, of course, powerful economic reasons behind the trend. As sociologist [...]
Tags: career·career management·Facebook·Linkedin·networking·reputation management·social networking
EVERYTHING Now Goes on Your Permanent Record
February 28th, 2009 · No Comments · career, personal branding, Uncategorized
I know the picture doesn’t match the title of this post but I couldn’t find the movie where someone asks “Will this go on my permanent record?” Seth Godin has a great post about how “google remembers everything”. It is so true. Back when I was a kid, adults would threaten us with infractions and [...]
Tags: career·career management·personal branding·reputation management·Seth Godin
Monster = Help Wanted
October 6th, 2008 · No Comments · career, linkedin, marketing, personal branding, social networking
It is always nice to be validated. An article from September 26 at The New York Times states “Job Hunting Is, And Isn’t What It Used to Be.” The article states pretty clearly for anyone who did not receive the memo that job boards are a waste of time. Your odds of finding meaningful employment [...]
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