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Personal Branding Through Social Media Boosts Job Application Success

Guest Post by Anna Pitts, a Marketing Assistant and Online Researcher at the Graduate Recruitment Bureau. Social media is a pivotal part of your job hunt, that’s a given. You need to make sure that you have a strong presence and identity on the internet that is accessible and appealing to employers and recruiters. Once [...]

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Why LinkedIn Endorsements Can Make or Break Your Career

Reposted with permission from Gen Y and Workplace Expert Dan Schawbel. LinkedIn endorsements have really taken off in the past few months. LinkedIn recently announced that there have been over 1 billion endorsements made so far. These endorsements are extremely valuable because the more you have, they higher your profile will rank for each skill. [...]

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Make Nurturing Your Network A Daily Habit

Published with Permission from Andy Robinson, Career Success Blog. All too often I find that my coaching clients, faced with an impending job change — voluntary or involuntary — realize very quickly that their contact network is “stale” and rather shallow. It is MUCH easier to maintain and nourish your network on an ongoing basis rather [...]

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Keys For Creating Your Career Success Story

This post originally ran on the Personal Branding Blog. The story of our careers, work and jobs continues to be written and told by all of us living it. 2008-2010 were tumultuous, paradigm shift years that most of us had never known, seen or experienced in our lifetime. We were all forced to deal with change on [...]

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10 Habits to Energize Your Day and Pump It Up!

Guest post by Executive Coach Andy Robinson of Career Success Community. Balancing “highly focused work effort” with adequate rest and recovery is invaluable in any performance venue – work, athletics, sports, hobbies, etc. Without adequate recovery time, we overstress our bodies physically, emotionally and mentally.  Energy levels suffer and peak performance is impacted. Energize Yourself! With regard [...]

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Make Sense Out of Change and Join The Dance

I’m going to go off on a little riff today. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. ~Alan Watts I found this quote by British philosopher Alan Watts, which grabbed me and really perked me up because of how simple, and sound [...]

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