A strong personal brand will distinguish you in a tough job market. Once you’ve designed your personal brand and have a personal brand name, use this handy list of suggestions to implement your standout personal branding strategy.
Everything you need to manage your reputation online and get to any nasty Web surprises before they get to you.
Did you expect to find less than 200 resources and tips?
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Discover & track what’s being said about you
What should you be tracking?
Most people will only want to track their full name (in the format “firstname lastname”), but there are other things you might want to watch as well:
* Web pages where you posted your resume, portfolio or other online work
* Any products that you take credit for in a resume or portfolio
* Companies that you’re researching in a job hunt
* People you might soon work with or for
* Major players in your industry
* The job market in your industry
Group writing projects are fun. They’re a great way to discover and be discovered. JobMob has received many new subscribers that way, which is important for you because the bigger the JobMob Community becomes, the more you can help and get helped in your job search.
Of all the newspapers in Israel, Yediot Achronot continues to have the largest audience both offline in print and online with its Ynet sites (according to Alexa). When it comes to finding work in Israel, is this leading position justified?
Rivka commented on the Who Are You? article this way: I like the tips that this site gives, though more information on jobs available would be nice too. There are quite a lot of sites for this, though, so I guess that it may be unnecessary for there to be another? This is great feedback [...]
Isabont is a website that aims to “plan your career. manage your job search.” An easy claim to make but the video demos on the Isabont homepage do make the tool quite appealing. Simon Clay Michael, Isabont’s founder, was kind enough to offer a Premium account so that I could test out the site for you in all its glory. This is the JobMob review.
The existing jobs websites in Israel fall into 4 categories: corporate websites listing job openings such as Intel’s (Hebrew), recruiter websites like TripleTec’s, job boards like Jobnet’s or employment resource directories like UzIT’s Shimushon (Hebrew). After my recent successful Israeli job search during the summer and autumn of 2006, a friend and I started JobMob with the intention of doing something very different.
One of the most daunting aspects of a jobhunt is organizing it all, especially if it’s a prolonged search. Who did you speak to when, what did you send to whom, perhaps even what did you wear to which interview. Yahoo! Finance recently praised JibberJobber as a tool to ease this burden. This is the [...]
The LeWeb3 conference brought to Paris all kinds of people from Internetpreneurs to professional bloggers, from hardcore gamers to so-called Old Media journalists. Many came to listen, but most came with a message to spread. This is how they did it.
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About the author
Jacob Share is the founder and SVP of Share Select Media, a company focused on empowering quality bloggers and blogs such as Group Writing Projects, The Original Home of Group Writing Projects.
From Jacob: I grew up between Canada, France and Israel where I had my first Internet experience in 1994 and was hooked. Since then I've enjoyed playing a part in growing the Web as a manager-developer and project manager at Amazon.com and other e-commerce companies before starting up my own venture.
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