Best Blogs on Personal Branding & Self Marketing

This is a guest blog post by Lisa Rangel. Admit it. The executive committee residing in your brain is feeding you negative self talk that just isn't true. The voices in your head are sabotaging your job search and screwing with your career mojo-but you are still finding yourself listening to the ill-fated messages, resulting in poor job search results for you.

I stay up way too late at night running numbers for my new company. It's incredible-me doing spreadsheets of financial projections-because I have dyscalculia, which means I was in special ed math and cannot do simple arithmetic, even now.

Many job seekers give up on networking in their job search because they don't seem to get results. They figure... "Networking doesn't work for me, my situation must be different." What often is the actual case though, is that they never prompt the people they are networking with for appropriate information.

Social media allows us to connect with professionals and amazing people all over the globe. Millions of people use networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to connect daily and build their personal and business brands. However, there are three things that few people mention when it comes to using social media for personal branding.

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Donna Svei, an Executive Search Consultant & Executive Resume and LinkedIn Profile writer, blogs on career and job search topics.

Smart, edge career advice for young professionals.

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In the recent Forbes article, Job Hunters: Here's How You Can Stand Out From The Pack, career coach Nancy Collamer tapped several career professionals, including myself, to compile a short list of powerful strategies to differentiate yourself in job search.

Why every entrepreneur and professional need personal branding You may be asking - Why do I need to worry about personal branding?

CAREEREALISM is a career management blog that provides job search advice from approved career experts and business partners.

There's more job search mythology being passed around than even the ancient Greeks could have imagined. Some of the most well-traveled and persistent myths are also the most dangerous ones -- because following this faux wisdom could sabotage your job search efforts. Here are 10 of my favorite job-search myths, and the reality to replace each one.

A few months after the summer Class of 2013 graduated, they've learned first-hand that they have entered a tough job market. In fact, these young professionals face an unemployment rate of about 9% and an under-employment rate of about 18%. Beyond these statistics, what is it like for the Class of 2013?

Over the last decade, how people discover new job opportunities has evolved dramatically. When was the last time that you looked at a newspaper to find your next job? These days, the majority of job searches are conducted online, spawning a whole new industry around job boards, recruitment websites and job posting platforms. However, with [...]