Kindness | A Hallmark of Personal Branding

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When preparing your personal brand, you pay attention to all sorts of things that will make sure that you are conveying the right message about who you are and what you are about. During this process, have your given much thought to kindness? Kindness? Yes, kindness. I have talked before about generosity as a component [...]

Does Perception Trump All?

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“Perception is truth.” Have you ever heard that saying? In reality, perception is one’s interpretation of truth, but how many times does that not matter? And how can that be detrimental to your job hunt, to your career, to you? Perception is truth… online In social media, perception is all that matters. Folks will make [...]

Personal Branding: Blending In to Stand Out

On a trip to the mall, I saw two young ladies who obviously had coordinated their wardrobes that morning. That fact was rather apparent due to their blindingly white knee-high leather boots and matching white leather purses. They did make a bit of a statement there. It got me thinking about personal branding, job hunting, [...]

The First Rule of Social Media

Jake LaCaze

I’m honored to have a guest post today by Jake LaCaze! Jake is a self-professed “Social Media Introvert” who takes on many different topics that have a lot of applications to managing one’s career. His post today on social media, an essential in today’s world, is no exception. So you’re thinking about making the dive [...]

Keeping Up Your Online Presence

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Are you one of those who discounts the importance of monitoring your online presence? Well, if the following case of mistaken identity doesn’t convince you to start paying attention to what is written online about you, nothing will. This story is about an 18-year-old student from Florida who Googled himself one night and found that [...]

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