I'm excited to announce that I recently released a new book, Guide to Executive Search: How to Accelerate Your Search to Land Your Next Six- or Seven-Figure Job. After working with thousands of job seekers and building a practice focused on helping senior executives navigate their job search, I...
How Strong is Your Network?
When you start a job search, reaching out to people you know for introductions and leads is critical. But it can be challenging to get a handle on and mobilize your network, particularly if it is large or if you have been out of touch with key contacts for a while. A great place to begin assessin...
Job Seeker’s Guide to a Confidential Job Search
Are you trying to look for a new job while employed and struggling with how to do so without attracting attention from your boss or other stakeholders at your current company? Our new ebook, Job Seeker's Guide to a Confidential Job Search can help. Learn how to leverage LinkedIn for your search wi...
5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Google+ in Your Job Search
Most job seekers I talk to rely solely on LinkedIn as their main online tool for finding contacts for their job search and being found by decision makers. LinkedIn is a fabulous resource, but Google+ can be used to supplement a job seeker's strategy and open new doors that could be challenging to op...
LinkedIn “Netiquette” Are You Asking for Too Much Too Soon?
I was recently interviewed by my hometown newspaper, the New York Post, about the do's and don'ts of LinkedIn etiquette. One of the biggest problems I see with people's approach to using LinkedIn for job search is that many have unrealistic expectations for the online relationship and ask for too mu...
Facebook is Ten! Are You Using it to Manage Your Career Yet?
In celebration of their 10th birthday, I'm blogging about Facebook to show how much I appreciate its implications for career management and job search. Facebook often plays second fiddle to LinkedIn and many are unaware of its enormous potential for job search. Here are a few of the features I par...
Seeking Unqualified Lazy Slackers
Out of every 100 resumes I review, approximately 95 of them start off with a reference to the personal attributes that candidate believes they possess. The logic here is that these descriptive words will verify the person's abilities and make them a more desirable candidate in the hiring manager's e...
How to Use Facebook Graph Search to Source Job Leads
Many people use Facebook to keep up with friends and family, but few realize Facebook's potential as a networking and general job search tool. With over one billion users, Facebook offers a repository of information on people that is much greater than LinkedIn's 200 million user base. Users can use...
Kmart’s Joe Boxer Xmas Commercial: A Lesson in Personal Branding
The recently released Joe Boxer "Show Us Your Joe" commercial has been called out as both controversial and brilliant over the past few days. The ad promotes the brand's holiday line of men's underwear and features men dancing in...you guessed it...their underwear. The ad is totally on-brand and Joe...
Jobvite Says Social Recruiting is Here to Stay
The findings of the 2013 Jobvite Social Recruiting Survey were recently released and the results suggest that recruiters continue to leverage social media sites to source talent. Key findings of the survey include: • 94% of recruiters use or plan to use social media in their recruitment efforts....