Excellence in Business Communication, 12th Edition
Chapter 15. Building Careers and Writing Resumes
You've spent hours crafting the perfect resume.
What should a young job applicant do when well meaning parents are giving advice that worked for them in their job searches?
Here is a fun online infographic creator introduced to us by Jacob Share in a post at PersonalBrandingBlog.
What can you do to stand out in today’s market?
Are you building a database of prospects or friends?
In creating your personal brand, it’s important that you have a story.
Toss out that passé Objective section of yesterday and replace it with a well-branded, focused statement that gives the reader a clear message about who you are in less than 5 words.
Feedback from employees is the core of Fortune's Best Companies to Work For rankings.
[Today's job seekers] are not only competing with hundreds of other professionals for every open position, but they’re also bombarded with tons of career advice from every angle telling them what to do (and what not to do) in order to land their next job.
Are you wondering why everyone in the business world is so agog over LinkedIn?
Whether you’re looking to increase awareness of your personal brand, drive traffic to your website, increase opt-ins, or find new leads, success lies in creating a compelling, consistent message and approaching your audience from multiple angles to circumvent the unrelenting, ambient noise of the competition.
In this excerpt from her recent talk at the University of Applied Sciences & Arts in Lucerne, Switzerland, strategist Dorie Clark (photo left) discusses LinkedIn and how every professional should be deploying it.
Given that 45 percent of human resources managers say they spend less than a minute, on average, on each job application they see, it’s understandable that some people might go overboard in trying to bring some individuality to their work history.
Career fairs are going digital.
Jeff Haden pondered the "stuff I wish I could have told the twenty-five year-old me (photo, left)," and has come up with a BusinessInsider.
Jessica Liebman (photo, left), Managing Editor at Business Insider, keeps a Gmail folder called "Worst Cover Letters.
Roger Parker (photo, left), writing for PersonalBrandingBlog.
Gerrit Hall (photo, left) believes references "are so valuable" the jobseeker should learn "three important bits of info" about them.
"If you’re spending time reading job advertisements online, you know that they’re not all written equally," says Lindsay Olson (photo, left).
Laura Labovich (photo, left), contributor to Careerealism.
Donald Todrin (photo, left), writing for the Entrepreneur section of BusinessInsider.
Heather Huhman takes a look at the online reputation tools asking, "Do they really serve a purpose?