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15 T-Shirts To Avoid During Job Search
No one wears a t-shirt to a job search networking event. Do they? Well, you shouldn’t. But if you thought about it and wanted to wear one of these, please pull them out of your virtual closet. Right...
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Start Focusing On New, Creative Networking Ideas
Today’s post was written to support Job Action Day – a great initiative started by the folks at QuintCareers.com, one of the largest job search support sites online. “Job Action Day is a day for all...
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Should I Email My Entire LinkedIn Network?
NEW to the blog? Sign up for email updates and I’ll keep you in the loop each time I have something new to help you. This is a really interesting question. Whether you are looking for work, trying to...
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10 Reasons You Won’t Be Followed On Twitter
If you had a list of things you could fix to so that people would more likely follow you on Twitter, would that make you feel better? If so, you may officially count your chickens. And the egg to the...
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How To Communicate With A Young Gun
This is part one of a two-part series on millennials in the workplace. Specifically, how to communicate across generations – a common issue at the office and during a job interview. This series was...
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Do You Accept All Invites On LinkedIn?
NEW to the blog? Sign up for email updates and I’ll keep you in the loop each time I have something new to help you. I see it a lot on LinkedIn. Less often today thankfully. But there must be some...
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How To Get People To Do Something For You
If you are at all like me, there are quite a few unread emails in your in-box. There are also some that were read and not responded to yet. Same with phone messages. While I keep trying to reduce the...
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When Your Career Needs More Cowbell
Last month I decided to focus on some important aspects of my career and life. So I took 29 days to do just that and here are my results and conclusions. If you read my post on February 1, you’ll see...
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Job Seekers Are Horrible Networkers
Depending on your experiences in life and in social networking circles, the title of this post will provoke a variety of reactions. I heard this statement from a friend of mine who reacted this way...
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Don’t Be A Jerk On Linkedin
Do you smell something? Every once in a while I have an interaction on LinkedIn that I simply can’t explain. I work back through how it all got started, tracing my steps, my comments and the way that...
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Informal Networking: My Walk With Sanjay
On a brisk April morning this past week, I met a new friend. We don’t know each other that well yet. After all, we just met. But the way we met is the theme of this post. So it matters. We met on...
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Is @Klout Losing Credibility?
I’m not trying to be negative about Klout. I’m not a hater. In fact, I’ve largely been a supporter of Klout as a way to measure the effectiveness of a brand or person to engage others. As a life-long...
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5 Questions You Must Answer During Job Search
Whether you are an old salty veteran of the job search process or a fresh new recruit, there are some things you need to know. While networking, people will be curious about you. That’s a good thing....
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Open Networkers And Now Open Endorsers. Oh My!
I got a LinkedIn connection request from an open networker today. Always makes me cringe. Especially if it’s a generic request with no attempt to personalize the invite. Why? Because I don’t want to be...
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Job Search Networking: Return To Neverland
It’s Friday and in preparing to speak to a group of executives this morning, I thought I would create a custom presentation topic for them. And then share it with you first. The topic is networking...
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Social Media: What’s Not To Like?
I’m sorry, but I think things are getting a bit out of hand. Our social credibility is on the line here. Is there anything we can’t like in the world anymore? Is getting our minimum engagement so...
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Networking Means Kissing Someone’s Ass
I don’t usually use bad language. Of course, every once in a while I slip up just like you. But not in this case. This time the language came from an MBA student I was meeting with last week who had a...
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4 Social Media Applications I Will Stop Using In 2013
These weren’t easy decisions. But I had to make them. I decided to stop using a number of social media applications. I’ll tell you why below. Mike Brown of Brainzooming wrote a post once illustrating...
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12 Powerful Ways To Engage Your Network
I shared this math equation in a blog post over on Fix, Build And Drive (my marketing blog) a while back. I included it in a post on the formula for growing a service based business. You can read the...
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5 Secrets for Using Industry Groups in Job Search
Industry associations are a job seeker’s best friend—or at least they should be. This is a guest post by Kelly Donovan. There are thousands of associations that cater to professionals in virtually...
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