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Lessons from PwC's Elevator Pitch Contest for Your Personal Brand career development employee engagement interviewing leadership development tips Apr 13, 2011

A natural flowing, context-specific elevator speech is an important part of your professional portfolio. Unfortunately many elevator speeches sound the same and, let's face it, are quite boring. In order to grow professionally it is best if you have several different elevator speeches you and...

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What Your Resume and Online Profile Says To A Hiring Manager interviewing personal branding resumes tips Jan 10, 2011

As a hiring manager in the consulting and financial services and consulting industries I have reviewed literally thousands of resumes. It is true that most of the resumes get about 10 seconds of consideration before they are dismissed. However, some of the resumes receive a lot more...

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How Your Attitude Affects Your Job Search and Career Success career development interviewing soft skills Dec 22, 2010

"Your Attitudes Affect Your Behaviors"

Remember that phrase. Whether you are looking to advance your career, find a job, increase sales or anything else you want to accomplish your attitude is is the starting point.

Dictionary.com defines Attitude as 

"manner,...

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How to Handle the Tough Interview Questions with Personal Branding interviewing personal branding resumes Nov 22, 2010

Congratulations!  After working hard on your resume you have received an invitation for an interview.  Great! Now, how do you handle some of the tough questions: 

  • Why are you leaving your current position?
  • Discuss an ethical dilemma you've faced and how you responded.
  • Tell me...
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Career Success Tip: Is Your Resume Looking to the Past or Future? interviewing personal branding resumes tips Jun 10, 2010

Is your resume focused on your past experience and accomplishments?  Even if you tailor your resume to a specific job description you could be making a mistake in your job search. Almost every resume I have seen has focused on past accomplishments. And while this is certainly acceptable, if...

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Career Advancement: Interviewing Success Tip career strategy interviewing purpose tips May 03, 2010

Whether you are an interviewer or are being interviewed the key characteristic to look for in a candidate is whether they are passionate about the work the position has to offer. 

For the candidate, a genuine interest in the position and the work involved is often times the deciding factor...

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