Play To Your Strengths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOyZCOqGXpg One Of My Strengths One of my strengths is that I know that there are people who are better than I am at certain things. And that doesn't take away from what I'm good at in the slightest. ...
Lawyers: Make A Career Change With Leave Law Behind
Leave Law Behind Although personal branding with Stand Out Professional Branding is definitely a strong way to go when you're looking for a career change or get a new job, there are other ways to do that. Especially if you're a lawyer. Leave Law B ...
Crossposting
Exposure Crossposting is when a piece of content from one person appears on another person's platform. This kind of posting can be really valuable for both the audiences and platforms involved. The most seemingly obvious reason for the importance of cros ...
I Know What I’m Talking About So You Should Hire Me To Build Your Brand
My Prediction Came True, Quickly. It Shows Why You Need A Personal Brand In April 2020, I saw a video of an app developer called Kilo Loco I follow on YouTube saying he'd been laid off. And I wrote an article here saying that I was sure he'd get a job ...
DeafTone Digital: Connecting Values In Practice
Making Connections I am grateful that I have the opportunity to connect with lots of different people in the digital space. And for me, the important part of connecting professionally is providing value. Recently I connected with the founder of DeafTo ...
Branding Analysis: Magic Spoon
Today I challenged myself to reverse engineer the values of the first company that advertised to me on Instagram. I did this because I wanted to show how using values in advertising and branding makes both so much more effective. Magic Spoon was t ...
West Kraemer On: How To Build A Brand Basics Part 1
Hi, my name is West Kraemer and I’m here to show you the very basics of building a digital brand for yourself during your job hunt. Start With A Website The first thing you want is a website. You’ll publish your tent pole, or “pillar” material ther ...
Job Hunting Is Lonely And Ineffective, Brand Yourself Instead
Personal Branding Is A Better Way To Get A Job Than Traditional Job Hunting Results Comparison Personal Branding Companies approach you to work for them. Potentially avoid several rounds of interviews because the decision makers at a company wa ...
A Network Is Important Because It Helps You Land On Your Feet
A Network Is Important Because It Helps You Land On Your Feet The fact that you need to develop a network (while employed and while unemployed) is the single most important message I can provide to job seekers. A network is important because it helps ...
Become A Marketable Employee
Why Do You Need To Become A Marketable Employee? You probably won’t have the same job between now and when you retire. That’s a fact for 90-95% of the people reading this right now. The market is simply different from what it used to be. So, job hunti ...