Posts Tagged ‘Personal Branding’
How great leaders inspire action?
Monday, December 26th, 2011Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers — and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be struggling.
Read Simon Sinek’s book
To Want to Be Successful, is Not Enough
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011There is no prize out there. The only prize is this one [points to heart], and what you feel and what you want to accomplish. If you can, as you start out, these what could be lean years or fat years, I feel that I very often watch a lot of young people sort of meander around without any idea about why they’re doing. To want and to be ambitious and to want to be successful, is not enough—that’s just desire.
To know what you want, to understand why you’re doing it, to dedicate every breathe in your body to achieve. If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing or is worth caring for, then there is nothing you can’t achieve. You’re going to grow up with your colleagues. You’re going to watch them have success and watch them have failure and you’re going to watch how they deal with it.
By Kevin Spacey
When you wake up in the morning, how do you define yourself?
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011When you wake up in the morning, how do you define yourself? Check out Donal Glover who is featured on the 2012 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. May this video inspires you. More 30 under 30′s videos here
Why Do So Few Women Have Mentors?
Thursday, December 15th, 2011A good mentor can steer you to professional success. But according to a survey by LinkedIn, nearly 1 out of 5 women say they’ve never had a mentor at work. Host Michel Martin discusses the findings with Linked-In’s Nicole Williams.
Serve Those Who Serve Others
Thursday, December 15th, 2011Simon Sinek spends nearly every single day talking about what it means to live your Why – to live with a sense of purpose, cause or belief. But what happens when we wake up one day without a sense of purpose or cause? What happens when we used to have clarity and it slips away?
That is what happened to him. But it didn’t happen over a career. The feelings were exaggerated so much that it felt like he lived an entire life in just one day.
This is what he learned.
Social 5150: Online job hunting tips
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011The job market is tough right now and for job hunters, presenting yourself in the best light is more important than ever. Professional Social Media Consultant Neal Schaffer, gives us his take on the power and importance of LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook in managing a strong online personal brand and maximizing your potential to prospective employers.
Tips for LinkedIn:
- Maximize your profile
Make the first impression count. - Re-establish connections
As professionals, our networks are our greatest assets. - Research organizations and engage with them
Treat LinkedIn like a business networking event – Go out and engage.
Don’t neglect Facebook, services like Branchout can help you manage a professional network on your personal social media pages.
Neal Schaffer, is the SVP of Social Strategies at media consulting firm 5150 Social, and President of Windmill Networking. He is author of the Books: “The Windmill Networking Approach to Understanding Leveraging & Maximizing LinkedIn” and “Maximizing LinkedIn for Sales and Social Media Merketing.”
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Why You Need a Personal Board of Director?
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011Jim Collins shares his mentors’ wisdom.
1/6 American Workers Used Social Media to Get Hired
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011Source: Mediabistro
By Shea Bennett
A heady 8 million Americans say that they used Twitter to find their current job.
That number is impressive enough, but it pales in comparison to LinkedIn, where 10.2 million Americans say that they found work, and especially Facebook, which accounted for a staggering 18.4 million of successful hires.
In fact, according to this data, an eyebrow-raising 36,600,000 Americans used social media to find work, representing about 16 percent of the adult population.
One in six workers say that they used social media to get hired, with Facebook (50 percent) the most popular way to look for work, ahead of LinkedIn (26 percent) and Twitter (25 percent).
I don’t know about you, but all of these numbers seem very high to me, so, interesting as they are, it might be worth taking this with a hefty pinch. That said (and while I’m not American), Twitter has, in a roundabout way, played a major role in securing me my last two jobs, so maybe there’s something to it.
Created by: MBA Online (Source: MBA Online. Hat tip: All Facebook. Top image credit: Lightspring via Shutterstock.)
I believe that skills and experience are not longer sufficient to find jobs.
To achieve your career goal, you will need to
- Know and follow your Why (go after what inspires you)
- Clarify and articulate your personal brand
- Build and maintain a powerful online branding presence
- Transform your mindset
- Expand your skill set and master soft skills
- Network, build relationships and become resources to others (Give before you ask. Les Brown)
- Have collaborative, driven and achievers relationships
- Focus on how you can do things differently (challenge the status quo)
Need help with career branding and research, contact us here
Why U in the USA?
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011U in the USA believes everything it does is to help international students discover, see and experience what inspires them so that they all can live out their dreams.
The way we assist international students is by creating services that help them in the following ways:
• Sell their personal credibility, likeability and helpfulness.
• Discover and articulate their personal missions.
• Discover hidden resources and opportunities supporting their passions and causes.
• Define and demonstrate their unique business values to the right decision makers.
• Make positive differences in the lives of others.
• Build a strong support group of professional and personal allies.
• Take calculated risks.
• Embrace the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence.
• Develop a better understanding of people of different backgrounds and cultures.
• Think differently, creatively and independently.
We happen to help international students achieve their career goals in the USA with career, lifestyle and cultural services.
Want to get in touch with us to learn how U in the USA can help you? Contact us here
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jean-Marc Dedeyne
Founder and CEO
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