Job Search Experiment – Episode 6: Positive Feedback

Job Search Experiment – Episode 6: Positive Feedback

Though readers may view this ongoing series tracking the job search of Cleveland sales executive Tim...
Job Search Experiment Episode 4: Personal Branding Statement

Job Search Experiment Episode 4: Personal Branding Statement

Day 4 of our real-life, real-time job search with Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn. For those of...
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Real-life, Real-time Job Search Experiment: Episode 1

This week starts a new real-life real-time experiment detailing the job search efforts of Tim Krenn,...

Job Search Experiment – Episode 6: Positive Feedback

Featured, Interviewing, Networking, The Search — March 10, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Though readers may view this ongoing series tracking the job search of Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn as an interesting case study, for Tim this is real life. The guidance we provide needs to produce real results in the form of a job offer out there in the real world. That’s why this morning’s call from Tim was great news and an affirmation that we’re guiding him on the right path. Tim...

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Job Search Experiment – Episode 6: Positive Feedback

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Job Search Experiment – Episode 6: Positive Feedback

Job Search Experiment – Episode 6: Positive Feedback
Though readers may view this ongoing series tracking the job search of Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn as an interesting case study, for Tim this is real life. The guidance we provide needs to produce real results in the form of a job offer out there in the real world. That’s why this morning’s...
March 10th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Networking, The Search | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 5: Your Story

Job Search Experiment Episode 5: Your Story
When we last left Tim, our Cleveland-based sales executive, we instructed him to create his personal branding statement – the single sentence that defined the value that he brings to an organization. Tim examined his professional strengths and crafted the statement: I’m the guy who can build...
March 9th, 2010 | Interviewing, Networking, The Search | Read More

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Job Search Experiment Episode 4: Personal Branding Statement

Job Search Experiment Episode 4: Personal Branding Statement
Day 4 of our real-life, real-time job search with Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn. For those of you just tuning in, we’re documenting the real-life job strategies and efforts of a Cleveland-based sales executive whose looking for a new job. So far, we’ve had Tim create his social media identities...
March 5th, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Networking, Social Media, The Search | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 3: Creating a Personal Brand

Day 3 of our real-life, real-time job search with Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn continues with a focus on how to create and market your personal brand. Over the course of our first couple of days, we instructed Tim how to create his social media identities, how to create a blog focusing on his...
March 4th, 2010 | Interviewing, Networking, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

Ban Email?

Ban Email?
So let’s ban email.  But before we do, let’s talk about something else: auditing emails.  I know, the phrase has a terrifying ring.  No one likes anything audited and email can be highly personal, but Michael Schrage thinks that it’s a good mechanism to improve productivity.  No,...
March 4th, 2010 | Featured, Technology, Workplace | Read More

Job Search Experiment Episode 2: Your Blog

Our real-life, real-time job search experiment continues with Episode 2: Your Blog. Yesterday we suggested to our job seeking executive, Tim Krenn, that he create his social media identities on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, that he  take a headshot that could be used across all the social media platforms...
March 2nd, 2010 | Uncategorized, Video | Read More

Real-life, Real-time Job Search Experiment: Episode 1

Real-life, Real-time Job Search Experiment: Episode 1
This week starts a new real-life real-time experiment detailing the job search efforts of Tim Krenn, a Cleveland sales executive who like millions of Americans recently found himself out of work and in need of a new job. Tim approached me a couple of weeks ago asking for advice on how to refine his...
March 1st, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Networking, Resume, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

Blink or Think: Two Approaches to Decision Making and Five Tips

Blink or Think: Two Approaches to Decision Making and Five Tips
We all know people that make decisions in extreme ways: the guy who snaps up a real estate deal in a matter of minutes or the person who takes 10 minutes to decide between fries and coleslaw.  Most of us fall somewhere in between, but there are philosophies of decision making that can sway most of us...
February 19th, 2010 | Organization, Workplace | Read More

Leonardo da Vinci’s Resume Genius

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No one is above having to write an appealing and intriguing resume to attract attention from a prospective employer. Not even Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci. A copy of a letter da Vinci wrote (full text below. original at right: click to enlarge) to the Duke of Milan seeking a position as an armorer...
February 18th, 2010 | Featured, Resume, The Search | Read More
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