There are certain “no brainer” items you can easily cross off your list that can make a big difference for your networking and on your job search. Chief among them is filling out your profile on the McDermott & Bull online network. Here are the top five reasons why:
I get mass emails from my professional network all the time. Most of them are lengthy updates on where somebody is on their job search. I don’t mind getting them and I try to help when I can, but unfortunately I rarely ever feel compelled to forward those messages on to the rest of my own personal network. If I did feel compelled to do so the original sender might benefit from the exponential exposure to thousands of other executives in my network, not to mention the many thousands more from the networks of the other recipients.
The past couple of weeks I have written about how corporate roles have changed and how we all must prepare ourselves for this new corporate world. Today, I want to discuss the topic of personal branding.
Tim Tyrell-Smith (an Executive Network member since 2007) is the Founder of Spin Strategy™ - Tools for Intelligent Job Search (www.spinstrategy.com). Tim started writing the blog and built a website to support job seekers after completing his own job search in 2007.
Welcome to the hyper-competitive job market of The Great Recession. Finding a job today is about consistently hitting it out of the park. That means taking advantage of opportunities to do what most of your competitors have not. I suggest you start by rethinking your static two-page resume and starting a blog instead.
