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Tag Archives: job hunting

Personal Branding in Today's Market Place

by Tj Helm on 08,03,0909 in Personal Development

By George Metzger  

It works for entrepreneurs, professionals, celebrities and job-seekers. Almost everyone is beginning to understand that personal or self-branding is what will put them ahead of the crowd. 

If you are different from everyone else and you want to prove it to the world just create the personal branding of YOU. 

So what is self-branding simplified? It is a clear understanding of what your personal attributes will bring to a specific situation or job. It is what makes you unique and it is a clear and common identifier of what you stand for. 

Self-branding will differentiate between someone who is competent and even professional from one who generates a lot of business and income. 

So what if you feel secure and know that you are doing a good job? Does this mean your career life will always go smoothly? No, because there is always someone out there that wants your place so you have to fight for it. 

Many people have the perception that self-branding is phony. They don’t see that they are really that good at selling themselves. The facts are that those who do not self-brand will be branded by others. Maybe they will be perceived as lax or lazy about the importance of their career by not putting any effort into self-branding. If you allow this to happen then you are giving away your power to decide what your own self-branding will be. 

Branding is a process that is created to sell YOU. Famous people have been using this process for a long time to sell themselves. You know from this example that it works. And doesn’t proof that it works prove it to be an effective method? 

Now, you’ve decided to go about the process of self-branding you have to have a strategy to follow. 

Build your self-branding identity to highlight your best skills and personal abilities.

Make a marketing plan that markets the new brand of YOU.

Set personal brand goals for yourself and a time line in which to achieve these goals.

You are now on the path to all new brand YOU.

George Metzger is a business coach and mentor that assists serious entrepreneurs in building a profitable online business with multiple incomes streams. George and his team have assisted hundreds of people in generating profits that exceed $250K or more in their first year. For more information and to contact George, visit: http://www.buildafortuneonlinetoday.com
 
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Your Online Resume – Why No One May Ever Get to See It!

by Tj Helm on 03,21,0909 in Workplace Support

By Dennis Whitlock
You’re looking for a new job; you’ve put together an outstanding resume and now it’s time to post online. You’ve highlighted your career experience and educational background and you’re just certain that when this puppy goes up there’s going to be a digital lineup of employers offering you your next dream job. WRONG! The purpose of a resume is not to get you a job, rather, to get you an interview.

But here’s the rub; you may have overlooked the most crucial point of the entire exercise and you’re not even aware of it! This is seldom taught or even mentioned in most business courses. There is a huge chance that a human, initially, won’t even look at your resume!

In this time of economic downturn, most positions garner hundreds of applicants. That’s hundreds of resumes coming in for each open slot. If you think that all these resumes are being viewed by human beings you’re in for a real shock. Gone are the days when an assistant scours through stacks of resumes to find that perfect applicant for the boss to call in for an interview. In this day and age most resumes are scanned looking for target keywords. Your resume needs to be optimized so that it can be seen by these scanners. Without doing so, you will likely remain as invisible as if you hadn’t submitted in the first place.

Employers scan resumes to transfer them from a paper format to an electronic format for easy storage and review. Unfortunately, scanning software is not perfect and is easily confused. This means that you need to produce electronic versions of your resume and any “hard copies” that may be scanned in a recognizable form.

Digital resumes and paper resumes differ in three crucial ways.
1) Font/Typesets
2) Format
3) Keywords

Remember these rules when composing your resume.
Font/Typesets

  • No tabs
  • Use 10 to 12 point fonts
  • Avoid two-column formats
  • No parentheses or brackets
  • Place your name and contact phone number or email on each page
  • Acceptable font types – Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Tahoma, and Courier
  • Avoid italics, underlining, and shading
  • Opinions on Bolding and using UPPERCASE characters are split. If in doubt, don’t use them.

    Format

  • Left justified. Don’t center or indent lines.
  • Avoid using vertical and horizontal lines
  • Avoid using graphics, or boxes

    Keywords
    Keywords are specific words or phrases that employers look for to identify the candidates they want to interview. Software programs that most companies use scan based on keywords – in much the same way you use keywords to search for information online.

    If you don’t have the right keywords in your resume, employers won’t be able to find you. But how do you know which keywords to include? Here are three places to look:

  • The specific description or ad for the job you’re applying for
  • Recent online or newspaper ads for similar jobs
  • Ask other job seekers and people currently employed in your field

    Rick Gillis, in his book Really Useful Job Search Tactics provides 11 excellent ideas for identifying and embedding keywords in your Scanable Electronic Resume. I recommend reading this book and employing his tactics.

    Well, that’s it, the most important thing that most people overlook. If you’re going to spend the effort to assemble a first-class resume, make sure that you don’t miss this crucial step.

    Good luck on that next job!

    Dennis Whitlock has been a business owner for nearly 20 years. In the process of offering employment to literally hundreds of individuals, he has witnessed, firsthand, the key elements of successful job searches. If the economy has you uncertain as to your career future, you may wish to consider a radically new and proven approach to finding a job (http://jobsearchadviceonline.com/).
    In addition, post your ideas and questions about what works and what doesn’t in your search for career opportunities (http://jobsearchhelpblog.com/).
    Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Dennis_Whitlock

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