Archive for August, 2009

I just branded myself with personal branding (figuratively not literally)

Posted on August 31st, 2009 by by carl

Personal branding is the new buzzword that you often hear about pertaining to career management. The term has been around since the late 1990s but has really come into play recently with the increasing popularity of various social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to name a few.
Certainly, we can probably name a number [...]

People Hire People That They Like

Posted on August 30th, 2009 by by carl

People hire people that they like.
I can’t count the number of times a hiring manager and job candidate have clicked in an interview and you can tell when the hiring manager called me to let me know how the interview went, that they really like the person and want to hire them.
A few times, [...]