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 [...]

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 [...]

After I finished university (I graduated with a business degree), I moved to New Zealand and figured I’d work there for a few years. When I got there, I literally started knocking on doors and handing my resume out. This was the mid 1990s so the Internet was around but was kind of in its [...]