Monthly Archives: May 2009

How to Answer Interview Questions–Tell Me About Yourself

Interview Questions

Public Speaking vs. Job Interviews The number one fear among Americans is public speaking, beating out fear of death by a solid margin. Now, i’m not a huge fan of throwing around dubious facts, but I think that one is pretty accurate, and very telling. Its extremely nerve racking when you’re the subject of scrutiny,

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How student internships influence your personal brand image

News

Every year around this time you can hear a buzz in the air, a shuffling of papers and feet and even some coffee boiling: it’s students working for free! Young professionals in college and even as young as high school are looking to work in the corporate world for free to gain the experience they

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Build Your Personal Brand – Tips for Writing a Personal Marketing Statement

How To

How to Write a Personal Marketing Statement

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Job Search Tips: Utilize your college career center

Job Search

College career centers represent a wealth of opportunity, knowledge, and experience in regards to the job search process. Unfortunately, these offices are also highly underutilized by the college student population. When I was in college, I visited my school’s Career Development Center a grand total of two times during my four years. Now as a

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Job Search Tips: Finding the perfect job

Job Search

The perfect job has different meanings depending on the stage of your life.  There is the high school student that is looking to make some extra cash to the middle level manager that feels they have been stuck in their same position for the past decade without a glimpse of upward mobility. So how does

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Personal Brand Examples From Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods & Richard Branson

Interviews

What Do Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, and Richard Branson All Have in Common? Well sure they’re all  successful, visible, rich and famous, but there is one immense underlying factor that supersedes all of those things: each of them has found, embraced, and capitalized on their own personal brand. This has given them the ability to

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SEO Your Personal Brand Offline – Build Your Personal Brand through Keyword Density

How To

SEO Your Personal Brand Offline – Build Your Personal Brand through Keyword Density

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Job search tips: How to write thank-you notes

Job Search

A common question we get asked is how to write thank you notes? Most people don’t send thank you notes at all. Which is exactly why you need to learn how to write thank you notes: so you can leave a better impression than the candidates competing for your dream job. In fact, not sending

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Tips for Job Interview: Phone Interview

Interview Questions

Companies are global in today’s market place.  Businesses have operations all around the world and are also looking beyond their geographic limitations to find good help to make them grow.  Years ago, as the economy boomed, the companies were more willing to fly an applicant down to an office to do an interview but with

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A Personal Branding Option – Developing Your Personal Brand Using Blogs

How To

After you’ve finished with the essentials of creating your personal brand, you should turn to publishing for real leverage in your job search.

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