Career Advice & Insights

How to find where your personal information is located online. The World Wide Web was created back in 1989. Since that time, it has amassed billions of pages of information from millions of Web sites — many of which probably mention your name, your business and your associations. Whether you’re an avid user of social … Read More

Focus on the future — not the past — to overcome the age-based excuses mature job seekers often tell themselves. Read More

Your manners and etiquette matter online in social networks. Social networking Web sites are becoming an indispensable part of the job search. As your relationships move online, it’s easy to track and manage your contacts and connections. Unfortunately, it’s also easy to forget your social skills. Ignoring a contact’s “hello” feels less harsh when it’s … Read More

Steps to begin using social networks in your job search. Once you decide to take the plunge and create a great profile that reflects your personal brand, the real value is in the connections that you make. So, how do you determine with whom to connect, and what’s the etiquette for doing so? Here are … Read More

An Image Makeover — A New Shot at Success Sometimes it takes more than just a little self-knowledge and chutzpah to get what you want. Sometimes it takes someone with an outside perspective to help you see that you may be frustrated in pursuing a goal not because you can’t reach it, but because it’s … Read More

Here are 5 free resources that you can use to establish or extend your online brand quickly and economically. By Kirsten Dixson and William Arruda If you haven’t figured out that you are being Googled in your job search just as frequently as you are Googling your business contacts, then it is time to enter … Read More

Crash! Pick up Those Network Pieces When your industry is dealt a heavy blow like the recent Wall Street woes, networking takes a little creativity. Here’s a short list of tips from job seekers and recruiters. Use your resources creatively Services like Ladders are not only good to find job openings, they also provide tremendous … Read More

Your Personal Brand: A Career Advancement Must Have Consider this scene from the recently released Kevin Spacey movie, “21”: In an interview for a prestigious scholarship, the main character, Ben, tells his interviewer, Professor Phillips, that money is the only thing between him and fulfilling his long-held dream of attending Harvard Medical School. While the … Read More

Market yourself outside your ‘box.’ The last few weeks have certainly been difficult for the folks on Wall Street and the companies affected by the credit freeze. If you had asked me if there was a surplus of talent in August, I would have said no. Even with today’s landscape and with more ‘feet on … Read More