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Does Your Salary History Really Matter to a Future Employer?

The Relevance of your Salary History

Your salary history tells an important story of how far you’ve come along a career path, so it’s fitting that a prospective employer might be interested in learning more about your past earnings. Yet it’s unfair to take a salary history at face value, because there are so often back-stories that need explaining. Does Your […]

4 Little Known Tools for Managing Your Online Brand

Tools to Help Monitor your Online Brand

The idea of brand management is growing and gaining momentum among the corporate and professional communities. Over the last two weeks I have given three presentations on the topic to business and HR professionals and job seekers and received almost a dozen emails and phone calls. Bottom line is that your reputation is everywhere and […]

Employment Branding and the Touch Cyle

Steps to Employment Branding and improvement

“A brand is a living entity – and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures” – Michael Eisner, CEO, Disney What Mr. Eisner is saying is that the small things matter when it comes to your organization’s brand. Every interaction impacts the perception participants have of your […]

The Frugal Job Seeker

Insights in lessening the amount of time in the job search

Discover how you can lessen the amount of time in the job search by 25-50% and effectively prepare and market yourself for just under $500.

Build a Social Media Hiring Strategy

How to Build a Social Media Strategy

Check out the article below and see my quotes! ***************************************************** Build a Social Media Hiring Strategy Jon Jordan got a weird feeling recently when he interviewed a candidate for a sales and marketing position. The applicant’s claim of double-digit sales at another company didn’t parallel with that company’s turbulent history. It didn’t match up, says Jordan, founder […]

Understanding Cultural Dynamics and Cross-Cultural Communication

Understanding various layers of culture

Introduction We each belong to an entire collection of cultures, which includes, national cultures, subcultures (based on regions, tribes etc), organizational or corporate cultures, industry cultures, professional or functional cultures. For that reason, culture can be defined as a shared system of values, beliefs, and attitudes. It affects our own actions and the way we […]