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4 Tips to Help Fine Tune Your Personal Brand
Whether you’re beginning your job search or a seasoned pro, everyone needs to fine tune their personal brand, periodically. So what is this mythical “personal brand”? It’s not something you can touch or smell, but it’s definitely visible to employers.
Still unsure of what your personal brand means? It’s your unique set of experiences, accomplishments, skills, education, attitude, and passion that provide the promise of value to future employers.
Don’t put this off — consider these tips to fine-tune your brand today: 
About Face: Live Events Key to Building a Personal Network
As much as we can network and build our brand online, long-lasting relationships must be nurtured in person. And networking events: meet-ups, conferences – and their little-brother “unconferences” – are a great place to get some face time… and make true in-person connections.
But how do you know which events to attend… and which will just be a waste of your time? Here are 3 considerations to consider when choosing where your face-to-face networking time is best spent:
Posted in Career, Career Advice, Networking
Tagged career advice, live events, networking, personal brand, personal network
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Two Must-Have Tools to Visually Showcase Your Talent
Whether you want to get noticed by employers, are looking to network or attract freelance work the internet gives anyone the power to own as much digital terrain as we want; showcasing your talent online continues to get easier and easier.
Most of already know about LinkedIn, but are there other options as well? Here are a couple tools you may want to try out to showcase your talent online…
10 Twitter Mistakes That Harm Your Personal Brand [Infographic]
Twitter is one of the most powerful tools in social media for mass communication. From anywhere in the world, in a simple 140-character format, we can interact, network, build personal brands… and job search. As simple as Twitter is to use however, it’s also quite easy to make mistakes that slow your progress in building your personal brand. Thankfully, these oversights can easily be avoided. Check out this interesting infographic from LinkingR.com that details ten strategic mistakes on Twitter that limit our personal branding – and distract us from our career goals – and how to avoid them.
Posted in Personal Brand, social media, Twitter
Tagged personal brand, social media, Twitter, twitter mistakes
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Keep Your Credibility: 3 Ways to Blow Up Your Personal Brand
Your personal brand is essential in the job search. It defines you as a candidate and what sets you apart. Most importantly, it builds credibility – something that employers and connections seek in professionals.
However, there are some practices job seekers do that risk losing their brand’s trust. Here’s three ways to lose credibility in your personal brand:
Posted in Career Advice, Personal Brand
Tagged career advice, credibility, personal brand
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A Personal Marketing Plan for the New Job Search
Having trouble getting called for an interview? It may be you need to make some changes to your job search routine.
The job hunt has changed drastically from what it used to be… and what used to work. In the past, you submitted applications to job postings; then sit home and wait for someone to call you for an interview. This strategy worked, way back when.
Successful job seekers don’t do this anymore.
Here are four steps to build your personal marketing plan… and get far ahead of your job search competition: