Business Communication Essentials, 8th Ed.
Prologue
Matt Johnston (photo, left) presents a video on the topic of resume mistakes to avoid.
"While you may end up being asked the standard "what is your weakness" question at a job interview, a sneaky employer may try to slip in some questions that are illegal to ask, in order to gain some possibly sensitive information," writes Justin Gmoser (photo, left) in presenting this video on the topic.
"If you don't have a digital presence today, you don't exist," writes Tom Cochran (photo, left), Chief Technology Officer with Atlantic Media.
Julie Bort (photo, left) covers the seamier side of reputation management.
"Here are the top six workplace fears and how to move past them.
"Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school.
"With the growth of such customer review sites as Yelp and TripAdvisor, and e-commerce sites like eBay, anyone with access to the Internet can potentially make or break a company's reputation.
"Sweaty palms.
"Kim Brown is an assistant director for Syracuse University's Career Services department.
"Melitta Campbell (photo, left) is a copywriter with 15 years experience of working in a corporate communications environment within a number of international organisations.
Online first impressions happen long before the first meeting.
We're seeing more and more recruiters use the web as a place to search for talent and conduct employment background searches.
Happy New Year! From everyone on the Bovée-Thill team, we wish you a successful new term.
There are four things that the most successful professionals have in common.
Professor Timothy Coombs talks about the relations between social media and crisis communication.
When someone earnestly complements you, how does it make you feel?
Here is a fun online infographic creator introduced to us by Jacob Share in a post at PersonalBrandingBlog.
Are you building a database of prospects or friends?
In creating your personal brand, it’s important that you have a story.
Feedback from employees is the core of Fortune's Best Companies to Work For rankings.
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.
On any given day we're lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lies can be subtle and counter-intuitive.
Roger Parker (photo, left), writing for PersonalBrandingBlog.