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Personal Brand Evolution: How to Start Your Personal Brand Today

February 11, 2010

“Personal brand” sounds like something you could sit in a corner next to your office ficus. But if you’re visualizing your personal brand like your own mini Oscar statuette–a golden you that you can point to–you’re missing the point.
Many people get stuck at the beginning, thinking that they’re creating a mold for that statuette. They [...]

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Career Trends and Career Change: Interpreting Employment Trends in 2010

February 1, 2010

A great career choice today may not be the best choice a few years from now.
There are hundreds of factors that affect your employability, many of which are linked to the job market. By keeping an eye on the trends in the marketplace, you can be ready to respond as factors are changing, and proactively [...]

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Is Your Success Undermining Your Dreams?

January 4, 2010

“Good is the enemy of great.”
This, the opening statement of Jim Collins’ Good to Great, is a primary cause of dream abandonment.
You’re good at what you do. You’ve got skills. You meet deadlines. Your projects meet client needs. You bring home a paycheck that keeps you and your family comfortable.
It’s so easy to rest on [...]

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How does your personal branding message cut through the noise?

October 14, 2009

If you’ve ever been to a networking event, you’ve probably had an experience like this: you meet fifteen or twenty people, and exchange business cards. You have perfectly professional conversations, talking about all the important companies that you’ve worked for, and the projects that you’ve worked on.
Then you go home, and you really remember two [...]

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Passion Profile: Bethany North, Coffee Fanatic

August 27, 2009

Today’s issue of Passion Profile features Bethany North, who made the leap into entrepreneurship to spend all day with her passion — coffee.
Kristi Daeda: Tell us what you do for a living, and how you got into that?
Bethany North: I work as a freelance writer and blogger, as well as full-time for two of my [...]

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What is your goal? A job, or the job?

July 29, 2009

This week, Liz Strauss shared this little video on her blog about focusing on the opportunity rather than the job.  Yes, there is a difference.

The distinction here is an important one.  So often people are so focused on what they feel like is the greatest need at this precise moment — often, that’s simply an [...]

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Are you the phoenix? Coping with career challenges

July 27, 2009

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix
–Christina Baldwin
Every hundred years or so, the mythical phoenix torches itself and its nest, to be reborn anew from a single red egg.

The phoenix appears in the mythology of many cultures, and although there are variations on the story, the dramatic fiery rebirth [...]

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It’s never too late for passion: Are you Susan Boyle?

April 15, 2009

photo credit: laffy4k
What can you learn from Susan Boyle?
There’s a reason that this story has garnered so much attention — it’s a feel-good about someone who is chasing their dreams despite the odds.

Talent comes in unexpected packages. This is for the recruiters: maybe that candidate doesn’t have just the experience and background that you [...]

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