The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. C. S. Lewis In the pursuit of personal and professional growth, the adage “surround yourself with people who are smarter than you” holds a profound truth. Embracing the company of those who possess greater knowledge and skills…… Continue reading Surround Yourself with the Smartest People
Category: Network of Champions
Learn how to cultivate strong and meaningful connections, both professionally and personally. Building a supportive network is key to success and happiness!
Finding New Industries for Your Job Skills
Finding New Industries: If you find that you have skills that are no longer needed in your current industry, it is natural for you to feel discouraged. Skills Requirements Continue to Change The ever-changing employment landscape often leaves people with industry-based skills and no employment market for those skills. If you are one of those…… Continue reading Finding New Industries for Your Job Skills
Internet Profile: Creating Your Internet Brand
Internet Profile: your internet profile is more than your identity on the Internet. This profile becomes your personal and professional brand. ~ www.jaywren.com The Contents of an Internet Profile An online profile has some or all the following elements: Your name Picture Skills Employment Education Training Accomplishments And your comments and likes. When you publish…… Continue reading Internet Profile: Creating Your Internet Brand
Synergy: Increasing Success By Creating Great Teams
Synergy: How do companies create teams that produce greater results together than the total results of the team members working separately? “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” ~ Aristotle Collaboration and Synergy Synergy is the process of combining the efforts of individuals or organizations to produce greater results together than the…… Continue reading Synergy: Increasing Success By Creating Great Teams
Creating the Story of Why You are Great
Creating the Story of Why You are Great: What makes people want to hear or read about great people? How can you make people want to hear or read about you? Creating the Story Think about the simple tools of advertising. Advertisers use images. They include music. They create a message to try to appeal…… Continue reading Creating the Story of Why You are Great
Privacy Protection: Opt-Out of the Sites that Share Your Private Details
Privacy Protection: How does this loss of privacy hurt you? It can hurt you in several ways. Privacy Protection: Opt-Out of the Sites that Share Your Private Details Now there are websites that share your personal information. Some of these sites sell this information through subscriptions. How does this loss of privacy hurt you? It can…… Continue reading Privacy Protection: Opt-Out of the Sites that Share Your Private Details
Profile Cloning: Is Your Identity Being Stolen by a Copycat?
What is Profile Cloning? Profile cloning is different from profile hacking. When someone hacks your profile, they gain access to your profile by getting your sign-in information. This information is usually your password and username or your password and email address. However, when someone clones your profile, they make a duplicate copy of your profile.…… Continue reading Profile Cloning: Is Your Identity Being Stolen by a Copycat?
Business and Career Growth: Can a Business or Career Become Static and Survive?
Business and Career Growth: Can a Business or Career Become Static and Survive? Building a business or a career is a continual process of expanding your goods, services, skills, and network. The first day that I sat down to start my career as a recruiter, I had no contacts. I had a telephone, an empty…… Continue reading Business and Career Growth: Can a Business or Career Become Static and Survive?
Social Anxiety: Is It Killing Your Career?
It is your responsibility to stop thinking negative thoughts about yourself before they become fixed in your mind as beliefs. Smile. Say something nice about yourself. Make a list of your blessings. Social Anxiety: Is It Killing Your Career? “Don’t let the world change your smile. Let your smile change the world.” A Work in…… Continue reading Social Anxiety: Is It Killing Your Career?
LinkedIn: How to Unfollow a Connection
LinkedIn: How to Unfollow a Connection It is helpful to know how to unfollow a LinkedIn connection. Do some of your connections annoy you with the things that they post on LinkedIn? Does it annoy you that some of you connections post political opinions or that other connections post puzzles or brain teasers. Do you…… Continue reading LinkedIn: How to Unfollow a Connection
5 Ways to Destroy Yourself Online
There are many ways to destroy yourself online. Here are 5 things I try to avoid. Trolling and Trolls I love Internet forums. I read forums for fun and for information. But forums have a sneaky way of getting readers into a blind date with a troll. A few months ago, I made the mistake of giving my opinion as opposed…… Continue reading 5 Ways to Destroy Yourself Online
9 Great Ways to Find a Job Without Networking
9 Great Ways to Find a Job Without Networking I read a great deal about getting a job through direct referrals. The NY Times has an article on companies using direct referrals for finding new employees. Forbes also had an article on the same subject. Networking for job seekers is important. I have written several articles that discuss…… Continue reading 9 Great Ways to Find a Job Without Networking
How to Get Contacts on the Inside
Knowing how to get inside contacts is important. Do you feel there is a wall between you and the jobs you are seeking? You go to apply for a job on a company website and find that you have to complete an application. When you have completed the application and submitted your resume, you are…… Continue reading How to Get Contacts on the Inside
Event Networking for Introverts
Event networking for introverts is never easy. For that matter, even some extroverts feel awkward when networking face to face. There is always that little feeling of what you don’t know. If networking events are difficult for you, there are things that you can do to make them easier. I prepare for networking events. When…… Continue reading Event Networking for Introverts
How To Use Membership Sites To Bring Opportunity To Your Door
How To Use Membership Sites To Bring Opportunity To Your Door The purpose in joining a membership site is to bring opportunity to your door and avoid sending opportunity to the door of other people and businesses. The solution is as simple as how you use links to membership sites. For example, I see resumes…… Continue reading How To Use Membership Sites To Bring Opportunity To Your Door
6 Ways to Create Brand Power in Your Online Profile
6 Ways to Create Brand Power in Your Online Profile A basic online profile is a person’s picture, name, skills, employment history, education, training, and accomplishments. Managed correctly, your profile can become the platform for your professional brand and advertising campaign. Here are six ways to build your brand: From your profile, create advertising on a…… Continue reading 6 Ways to Create Brand Power in Your Online Profile
LinkedIn: Who Can See My Profile?
LinkedIn: Who Can See My Profile? By default, everyone in the world can see your public profile on LinkedIn without signing in to LinkedIn. That is why LinkedIn calls these profiles “public profiles.” You can alter the settings to restrict what information is available to the public. In their words, LinkedIn allows you to “Control…… Continue reading LinkedIn: Who Can See My Profile?
LinkedIn: Can People Tell that I Have Looked at their Profile?
By default, yes, people can tell that you have looked at their profile. LinkedIn puts your photo and your name on the profile page of people you view. Here is a detailed set of directions. Step 1: Sign into to LinkedIn. Step 2: Hold your cursor over the image in the upper right-hand corner of…… Continue reading LinkedIn: Can People Tell that I Have Looked at their Profile?
Facebook: Can people tell that I’ve looked at their Timeline?
Facebook answers this question and includes a separate question that it words slightly differently, “Can I know who’s looking at my Timeline or how often it’s being viewed?” “Your Timeline is your collection of the photos, stories, and experiences that tell your story.” The links to the questions above and the following list of questions…… Continue reading Facebook: Can people tell that I’ve looked at their Timeline?
Shopping for LinkedIn Groups
Shopping for LinkedIn Groups: The way to pick LinkedIn Groups is to select groups based on your business and career needs. Some groups are great for creating many connections. If you want to connect with people, join large groups. In the connect page on LinkedIn, there are seven options. One of the options is that…… Continue reading Shopping for LinkedIn Groups
Digital Marketing for Your Job: Do the Risks Outweigh the Rewards?
Digital Marketing for Your Job: Do the Risks Outweigh the Rewards? You have worked hard to create an Internet presence. You have created a LinkedIn account, a Twitter account, and a Facebook account. You have polished your profile on these accounts. You have carefully selected people for your connections. You value your relationship with each person you…… Continue reading Digital Marketing for Your Job: Do the Risks Outweigh the Rewards?
How to Pick a LinkedIn Group
How to Pick a LinkedIn Group: Different LinkedIn groups have different purposes. Some groups are directories of people in the same industry or who have the same interest. These groups are terrific for building networks or creating databases. You can pick nearly any business sector and find that there is LinkedIn group for that business sector. …… Continue reading How to Pick a LinkedIn Group
Social Media and Your Career: Do These Things.
Social Media and Your Career: Do These Things There are some simple suggestions that can make you social media career campaign easy to manage and very effective. Post one profile photo on all social media sites. That photo is your brand packaging. Attire for your profile photo: A suit and tie are okay. An open-collared…… Continue reading Social Media and Your Career: Do These Things.
Creating Connections on Membership Sites: a Professional Network or a Database?
Creating connections on membership sites helps brand and market your career. THE TIME TO SET UP AN ONLINE NETWORK IS BEFORE YOU NEED IT. As your career progresses, one of the choices you may need to make is how to connect effectively with people online. Many people take an intuitive approach relative to where they…… Continue reading Creating Connections on Membership Sites: a Professional Network or a Database?
Beyond LinkedIn
Beyond LinkedIn Today much focus is on networking through membership sites. Sometimes the most helpful people in your network are your friends or people you have met locally. A friend of mine was working part-time in a hardware store while in college. One of the regular customers was a wealthy commercial property developer, who owned…… Continue reading Beyond LinkedIn
Professional Networking: Creating Credible Connection Invitations
LinkedIn is a business and career professional network. Credibility is very important for making connections and building your professional network on LinkedIn. LinkedIn has seven options for inviting people to connect with you. Each option has advantages in terms of creating credibility and ease of use. Here are the seven options. Colleague: Requires you to…… Continue reading Professional Networking: Creating Credible Connection Invitations
Building Professional Relationships at Work and On The Web
The Fundamentals of Building Professional Relationships at Work and On The Web Building a professional database is simple. A database is not a network. It is a contact list. Building a network of professional relationships takes time. The best time to invest time in building these relationships is before the time that you will actually need…… Continue reading Building Professional Relationships at Work and On The Web
Your Known Network
Today I so instinctively take the easy way to finding information and contacts. I go to LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Job Boards, Business Directories, Google Search, and forget that the best network I have is the one made up of the people I already know. The online resources are so powerful, so compelling, and so easy…… Continue reading Your Known Network
Network, Even When There is no Apparent Reward
Network, Even When There is no Apparent Reward He had been unemployed for over a year. He told me that he had not had one interview in over a year, because there was nothing worth his time. When I pressed him as to what he meant by things that were worth his time, he explained…… Continue reading Network, Even When There is no Apparent Reward
Working with Recruiters: The Different Types and What They Do
Working with Recruiters: The Different Types and What They Do If you are working with recruiters, you will find it helpful to understand the relationship between the recruiter and the hiring company and the relationship between a recruiter and a potential employee. Recruiter or Placement Agency The companies that use recruiters to fill a position pay recruiters…… Continue reading Working with Recruiters: The Different Types and What They Do
Are you a card collector?
The first time I heard the expression “be a card collector,” I was not certain what the person meant. Collecting cards to follow sports figures or to trade in games had always been my idea of card collecting. What I learned from a master at networking was that collecting business cards was part of the…… Continue reading Are you a card collector?