Executive Career Brand

JUNE 13, 2016

7 Questions to Test Your Preparedness for Executive Job Search. I guess no one is really ready for a job-hunt until they’re forced into it, but I’ve found that many new job seekers dive in before understanding how today’s executive job search works. Without knowing better, they rush to quickly update their resumes with generic information, and get it out there on the job boards fast. 7 Questions to Test Your Preparedness for Executive Job Search.

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Executive Career Brand

AUGUST 8, 2016

Until recently, career professionals relied on a strategy to minimize age in our clients’ documents and online profiles – including only the past 10-15 years of career history and not including dates for education. These tricks are ineffectual now that personal information exists about each of us online (whether or not we’ve put it there), and people sourcing and assessing job seekers are Googling potential candidates’ names before reaching out to them.

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2016 Online Reputation Management Job Search Cover Letter 172

Executive Career Brand

MARCH 2, 2017

Many executive job seekers are in a rut, spinning their wheels. But somehow, their resumes are not doing their job – generating interest and interviews. These posts will help you, 7 Tips to Build Your Executive Job Search Target Companies List and Best Ways and Places to Research Your Target Employers. It’s a boring, tedious job. More in my series of posts The Personal Branding Manifesto for Executive Job Search. Don’t ignore job boards entirely.

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2017 Online Reputation Management Resume Cover Letter 190

Executive Career Brand

JUNE 29, 2015

Many of the c-suite and senior-level executives I work with haven’t faced a job search in 5, 10 or even 15 years or more. If they’ve changed jobs over that time, they were sought after by executive recruiters and managed to circumvent the job search process. And there are those who truly have job security, at least for the time being, but are dissatisfied with their job or their company. Do I Really Need a Cover Letter for My Executive Resume?

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Executive Career Brand

APRIL 6, 2015

You’re probably aware that, when you’re job-hunting, you need to have a diverse, personal brand-reinforcing online presence , to attract recruiters and employers, when they’re searching for and assessing good-fit candidates. When people look online to find people to meet their needs, they search certain words and see what comes up. It works pretty much the same way in job search. Step one in job search is targeting.

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Executive Career Brand

MARCH 27, 2017

Executive job search in the digital age is hard! Most job seekers don’t know what to do, what not to do, what the first steps are, whether they need help, and basically, how to stage a successful job search campaign. 5 Reasons Your Executive Job Search is Taking Too Long. as you network your way into the “hidden” job market, where most jobs reside. You’re Sabotaging Your Efforts By Spending Too Much Time on Job Boards. I won’t sugarcoat it.

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Executive Career Brand

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The same holds true for executive job search. If you haven’t been in a job search for, say, 5 years or more, you probably don’t have an overall understanding of how it works today. You may think that step one in job search is dusting off your resume, updating it, and loading it onto as many job boards as possible. How to Build Personal Brand Content for Executive Job Search. Building Online Presence. Landing and Branding Executive Job Interviews.

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2016 Job Search Online Reputation Management Social Media 175

Executive Career Brand

MAY 4, 2015

Unless you’re extremely lucky and interviews are flooding in, you need to do a lot of work to position yourself to land good-fit job interviews. Like many executive job seekers, he didn’t have a handle on the strategies he needed to embrace to master the new world of executive job search to get a foot in the door with job interviews. To boost the number of job interviews you get, follow these guidelines, pretty much in this order: 1. Job titles.

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2015 Online Reputation Management Interviewing Cover Letter 192

Executive Career Brand

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Understandably, many job seekers struggle with putting themselves “out there” when they’re building their online footprint by using social media. On one hand, they need to have a strong, diverse online presence to be “find-able”, to promote their personal brand , and to provide social proof of the claims they’ve made in their personal marketing materials (LinkedIn profile, resume, biography, etc.). Think Twice Before Using Job Boards.

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Executive Career Brand

MARCH 2, 2015

Landing a great-fit executive job today – that is, one that mutually benefits both you, the job seeker, and the employer – does not work the way it did even a few years ago. With more qualified candidates often competing for fewer jobs, and the impact of the digital age, job search requires focus, hard work, and new strategies. That requires a marketing strategy and over-arching action plan to manage their time, relationships, and finances.

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Executive Career Brand

JUNE 2, 2014

They spend a significant part of their days searching online for candidates, and a significant part of that time specifically on LinkedIn. The cost of social recruiting is minimal (compared to posting on job boards) and opens them to a much larger pool of potential candidates. So, if you have a strong online presence, with a LinkedIn profile (and other online profiles, personal website, web resume, social media activity, etc.),

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2014 LinkedIn Resume Online Reputation Management 191

Executive Career Brand

AUGUST 26, 2013

Whether you foresee a layoff coming, have decided to move to another company, or you’re pursuing a career transition, chances are you’ll be conducting a stealth job search. You want to hang on to your existing job, while you’re looking for another one. Maintaining confidentiality in a job search is a delicate thing. Here are 5 ways you may slip up and blow a hole in your undercover executive job search: 1. Post Your Resume to ANY Job Board.

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2013 Job Search Online Reputation Management Cover Letter 195

Executive Career Brand

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

My answers to her spot-on questions — including links to other posts I’ve written — form the basis of a solid roadmap for successful job search. Why is it so vital for senior executives to use social media as part of their executive job search? First, and foremost, senior executives need to have an online presence because recruiters and hiring professionals are Googling “their name” to assess their viability as candidates. Networking is the best way to land a job.

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Executive Career Brand

MAY 8, 2017

In job search, there are many potential pitfalls that sabotage or prolong the search. Here are 5 challenges facing many executive job seekers, and ways to overcome them: 1. Anyone can easily find your age within the first several pages of search results for “your name”, now that such personal information exists about each of us online, on numerous aggregator sites. Circumvent the gatekeepers and network into the goldmine of hidden jobs. or anywhere online.

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Executive Career Brand

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Because today’s executive job search doesn’t look or work the way it did even 5 or so years ago, I advise executive job seekers to first learn about the new executive job search landscape , before diving in. To help you, I’ve compiled some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) from my executive job seeking clients, along with winning strategies I offered them to deal with the various challenges and issues they faced. Online Reputation Management FAQs.

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Executive Career Brand

MARCH 18, 2013

Job search for executives — and the c-suite, in particular — doesn’t look or work the way it did even a few years ago. Whether you’re getting ready for a career move or stuck in a protracted, daunting job search, getting on the right track is critical. The biggest mistake executive job seekers make is writing their resume with no clear career targeting. That is, not determining at the start of their job search which companies offer them a good mutual fit.

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2013 Online Reputation Management Social Media Cover Letter 199

Executive Career Brand

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

When you’re in executive job search mode, landing a coveted interview is like hitting the jackpot. Sometimes you’re lucky, and job interviews come easily, despite your lack of focused and concerted effort. 2 Important Executive Job Search Caveats. Don’t spend a lot of time responding to job postings. Only a very small percent of executive job seekers land jobs through job boards, especially at the c-suite and senior executive level.

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Executive Career Brand

JULY 15, 2013

if you’re not using it with executive job search best practices. It’s targeted, contains value-driven metrics and relevant keywords, and positions the job seeker as a good-fit candidate for the kinds of jobs he’s seeking. Yet the job seeker complains to me that he’s gotten ZERO RESPONSE to it. When I ask him how he’s using his resume, he says he’s responded to hundreds of job postings on the job boards.

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2013 Online Reputation Management Resume Cover Letter 185

Executive Career Brand

JUNE 3, 2013

Before first speaking to prospective c-suite clients, I email them a few questions to answer, to help me determine whether we’ll be a good fit to work together on personal branding and content development for their job search. One of my questions is: “What road blocks or challenges do you feel you are facing in your job search?” ” Often, their answer sounds something like this: “I’ve never had to look for a job before.

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2013 Job Search Online Reputation Management Cover Letter 175

Executive Career Brand

JUNE 28, 2011

A traditional “paper&# resume seems to have less value in job search today. For most job seekers, emailing a digital version of their resume has replaced snail mailing a hard copy. And if you think that the way to land a job in the new world of executive search is to post your resume to lots of job boards, think again. Only an estimated 3-5% of jobs come through job boards. probably much fewer for senior and c-level jobs.

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2011 Resume Online Reputation Management Cover Letter 208

Executive Career Brand

APRIL 24, 2017

If you’ve been in a job search for a while, and not much is happening, you’d be wise to re-jig your strategy, and start thinking of running your job search like it’s a business. That’s what wise job seekers do. They know that, when you’re job hunting, you’re essentially a solopreneur. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.” ” His advice perfectly applies to job search and career management.

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2017 Job Search Online Reputation Management Social Media 107

Executive Career Brand

JANUARY 16, 2012

So you’re suddenly in an executive job search or planning one – by choice or by circumstance. If you’re just starting out or, if your job search is lumbering on and you’re getting few or no interviews or action, you may not know how to job search well. Or you may be lazy – thinking that if you put out a few feelers and get your updated resume onto plenty of job boards, you can sit back and wait for interviews to roll in.

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2012 Job Search Online Reputation Management Cover Letter 178

Executive Career Brand

OCTOBER 8, 2013

How to Find Top Executive Resume Writers and Job Search Strategists. With fewer jobs and such fierce competition in the executive job market, it’s more important than ever to be armed with a resume that brands and truly differentiates you from others vying for the same jobs. More and more online resume writing services are cropping up to meet increased demand. Job seekers have a real dilemma sifting through the sea of choices and figuring out who to work with.

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2013 Online Reputation Management Resume Cover Letter 158

Executive Career Brand

JUNE 17, 2013

This 3-part series on LinkedIn, personal branding and executive job search includes: Part 1. Tapping into LinkedIn’s Jobs Pages. LinkedIn and Confidential Job Search. ?. Whether or not you’re willing to accept and embrace them, the digital age and social media will impact your job search. Taking advantage of the Internet does not mean pushing hard with job boards, and applying and sending your resume to ANY posting that remotely looks like a good fit.

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2013 Branding LinkedIn Online Reputation Management 210

Executive Career Brand

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Meg Guiseppi, C-level Executive Job Search Coach — Resume, Biography, Branding, Online Identity & ROI Value Communications Blog Home Intro Personal Branding 360 Reach Personal Brand Assessment Why hire a Reach Certified Personal Branding Strategist? If you’re spending all or most of your time responding to job board postings and waiting to be offered interviews, chances are, not much is happening. What is the hidden job market?

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Executive Career Brand

MAY 13, 2010

Meg Guiseppi, C-level Executive Job Search Coach — Resume, Biography, Branding, Online Identity & ROI Value Communications Blog Home Intro Personal Branding 360 Reach Personal Brand Assessment Why hire a Reach Certified Personal Branding Strategist? A new resilience is emerging in the 150K+ executive job market. More than ever, job board postings yield dismal results. Personal branding and online identity play a key role in executive job search.

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2010 Pharmaceuticals Online Reputation Management 2009 138

Executive Career Brand

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Meg Guiseppi, C-level Executive Job Search Coach — Resume, Biography, Branding, Online Identity & ROI Value Communications Blog Home Intro Personal Branding 360 Reach Personal Brand Assessment Why hire a Reach Certified Personal Branding Strategist? He has hired engineers, IT and finance professionals, sales reps, technicians, Six Sigma and Lean experts, and managers of many talents. If the right job is available and you’re the top candidate, you may get the job.

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Career Brander

MARCH 1, 2010

Career Brander Blog About Career Brander « Is LinkedIn the best job board? Telephone or Twitter-getting a hiring managers attention » Reputation Defender or Reputation Creator? You can see an interesting view of the online identity issues facing every job candidate at this link.) Career Brander has previously blogged regarding online identity management. We help people gain control of their online identity.

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Executive Career Brand

MARCH 11, 2010

Meg Guiseppi, C-level Executive Job Search Coach — Resume, Biography, Branding, Online Identity & ROI Value Communications Blog Home Intro Personal Branding 360 Reach Personal Brand Assessment Why hire a Reach Certified Personal Branding Strategist? Many of them are baby boomers who come to me never having needed a resume (or any career documents) to land jobs over their 30+ year careers. Some haven’t been faced with job search for 5 or 10 years, or longer.

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Executive Career Brand

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Meg Guiseppi, C-level Executive Job Search Coach — Resume, Biography, Branding, Online Identity & ROI Value Communications Blog Home Intro Personal Branding 360 Reach Personal Brand Assessment Why hire a Reach Certified Personal Branding Strategist? We also had a long consultation back then on the best job search strategies for him, working from his list of target companies and organizations. Relying on job boards – even the good ones – wasn’t getting him anywhere.

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Executive Career Brand

JUNE 25, 2010

Meg Guiseppi, C-level Executive Job Search Coach — Resume, Biography, Branding, Online Identity & ROI Value Communications Blog Home Intro Personal Branding 360 Reach Personal Brand Assessment Why hire a Reach Certified Personal Branding Strategist? Most of my clients are employed c-suite executives who either see signs of a possible layoff, or have become dissatisfied with their jobs and want to test the waters to see if there’s something better elsewhere.

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Executive Career Brand

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Meg Guiseppi, C-level Executive Job Search Coach — Resume, Biography, Branding, Online Identity & ROI Value Communications Blog Home Intro Personal Branding 360 Reach Personal Brand Assessment Why hire a Reach Certified Personal Branding Strategist? Over this decade green jobs will open wide, as companies, organizations and all of us as individuals scramble to “go green&#. Do you have the goods to compete for top-level jobs in this emerging, sought-after industry?

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Executive Career Brand

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Meg Guiseppi, C-level Executive Job Search Coach — Resume, Biography, Branding, Online Identity & ROI Value Communications Blog Home Intro Personal Branding 360 Reach Personal Brand Assessment Why hire a Reach Certified Personal Branding Strategist? Yesterday I took an eye-opening Reach Personal Branding teleseminar, “Job Search Secrets Revealed”, featuring Guerrilla Job Search Gurus Kevin Donlin and David Perry of Guerrilla Job Hunting.

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Executive Career Brand

JANUARY 19, 2010

Meg Guiseppi, C-level Executive Job Search Coach — Resume, Biography, Branding, Online Identity & ROI Value Communications Blog Home Intro Personal Branding 360 Reach Personal Brand Assessment Why hire a Reach Certified Personal Branding Strategist? In this slow job market recovery with more competition for opportunities at the top executive level, networking well is more critical than ever. You’re absolutely right about “knowing the job you want&#.

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