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  • timmee62 5:38 pm on July 22, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    LinkedIn job search advice 

    An interesting video on youtube by a chap who reminds me of Quentin Tarrantino. His name is Shawn Robinson and you can read his blog here

    The thing I really like is that everything he suggests is stuff you can do for yourself, no cost involved and at your own pace. As someone in the job market, you can be control. You can decide what you want to do, what companies to target, if you want to change industry and so on.

    Whether you use LinkedIn or other social networking methods e.g. Facebook and Twitter in your job search activity, the key is to be in control and always network with people who can help you.

     

  • timmee62 9:25 am on July 2, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Not all doom and gloom 

    In the same week that Vince Cable made his depressing announcement 

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/10465119.stm

    the BBC carried a story with some better news.

    Jaguar Land Rover announces 1,000 new jobs will be created at its Halewood plant with the production of a new Range Rover.

    So it’s not all doom and gloom after all.

    It is not clear whether one of the thousand jobs is that of Victoria Beckham, who will be a design consultant on the new vehicle. As she already has at least one other job (sic), it would be 999 new ones created.

    This story proves that jobs are out there for people willing to grab opportunities with both hands. Of course, this one probably came her way because of who she is. It doesn’t alter the fact she has reinvented herself several times over and made a career out of… well, whatever talents she has.

    We could all learn something about personal branding from posh spice.

    Maybe.

     

  • timmee62 12:51 pm on June 29, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Spread your Job Search net wide 

    When job searching, try getting back to basics. For example: it’s a numbers game.

    Write some letters.

    The great thing about a letter is that it is personal. You can use a pen (for the signature if nothing else). The paper you use even tells the recipient about you; make it good quality paper. A good tip is to hand write the envelope and mark it “personal” (not private and confidential), because this will tend to only be opened by the addressee and not an assistant.

    Yes, more and more business will be conducted via “social” media, LinkedIn and similar services in the future. Get on them and build your personal brand, but sometimes it will be equally effective to combine this with a more “old school” approach to job search.

    You will have a chance to hit a wider audience with a good old fashioned mailing campaign (no “e” in mailing, by the way).

    Try it out.

     

  • timmee62 9:13 am on June 27, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Your personal brand is YOU 

    Personal branding is the process whereby people and their careers are marked as brands.

    According to Wikipedia, this is the definition of personal branding.

    However, an alternative definition is you.

    One rule of business is “be yourself and know yourself”. Smart people will always see you for what you are. Your strengths and weaknesses, what you like to do, things you avoid doing. It all adds up to what you are as a person in the world of work.

    Resist the temptation to brand yourself as something you are not: a great leader, a motivator of men etc. These are things one either is, or is not. No branding will change that.

    Let your personality do the talking. It will shine through and become your brand.

     

  • timmee62 3:27 pm on June 25, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Don’t stop believing 

    Job searching is a potentially demoralising experience. Don’t let it be so! Keep the faith, follow your plan and, in the words of one Norman Stanley Fletcher: “Don’t let the b*****ds grind you down”.

    Your job search, your future.

     

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