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Getting an Edge; Why Your Elevator Speech is Crucial to Job Search

Landing an interview, let alone a job has never been tougher as we enter 2013.  Job seekers still outnumber jobs available by four to one, not very good odds.  And one of the biggest obstacles job...

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Five Tips Following Graduation -- A Guest Post from Nikki Yourison

The PR Job Coach is now featuring guest posts from time to time from notable people who have important things to say.  This week we have a post from Nikki Yourison a soon-to-graduate public relations...

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Burnish Your Brand by Sculpting with Social

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.  There has been no time in history where it has been easier or more efficient to sculpt your personal brand to highlight your passion, spotlight your skills and...

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Top Ten Reasons to Connect with Someone You Do Not Know.

As Porter Gale launches her new tome Your Network is Your Net Worth, I am reminded of another aspect of networking that has both risk and opportunity.  How do you handle requests to connect from people...

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Seven Acts of Random Courtesy After You Land

As I reflect on my years and experience as a career coach and a mentor I once again am reminded that there is an obligation to return the favor for the kindness and generosity of the network in...

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What to do if your job sucks!

You are into the 11th month of your new job.  There is no psychological lift from your work. The boss is a serious micro manager.  You are not having much fun.  You are at your wits end and see no...

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Eight Questions to Answer Before Accepting an Internship

Once again internships are prominent in the news.  Just last week we learned from an article in the Atlantic that barely one third of the U.S. Senate pay their interns.  The White House also was...

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How to Electrify Your Resume

Even while channels proliferate to communicate your passions, position and career preferences, the resume remains firm as your calling card and one of the essential documents that helps you define who...

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New Year Networking: How to be Dr. Jekyll and not Hyde

Networking is the oxygen of the connected economy.  It is the currency of consumer collaboration.  Unless you are a monk, getting through life in the 21st century is a challenge at best if you have no...

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Career Lessons from Bridgegate: Don’t be a Savior or a Martyr

Time and again we are witness to crises of major proportion that often are unbelievable and defy a thinking person's logic.Bridgegate is one such example. How on heaven's green earth would anybody with...

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How to Evaluate Multiple Job Offers

If you are one of the fortunate few to begin benefitting from the slow-going jobs recovery you are in an enviable position.  Furthermore, if the offers number more than one you truly are in an...

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Great questions can prompt great insight – What should you ask?

More often than not how you convey your value and abilities can determine whether you end up at the top of the consideration set of a job interview.  If you are prepared, can tell compelling stories of...

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How to Work Well With Others in the Workplace

From time to time the PR Job Coach invites guest posts from colleagues on related career management topics.  This guest post come from Tori R. Terhune and Betsy A. Hays, APR, Fellow PRSA, authors of...

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How to Reach Career Resonance: Purpose, Passion and Persistence

Career resonance in my view is a state of existence where you are happy, healthy, balanced, busy and emboldened.  Your life is self-fulfilling because all aspects are generally working together to make...

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Looking for your dream PR job? Five ways to become the right candidate today.

Everyone dreams of that PR job - The One. Just imagine taking an elevator to your office where you fully immerse yourself in the brands, products or services you personally believe in. It doesn’t get...

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Should We Take the "Internal" out of Internal Communications?

This post originally appeared in Spin Sucks. It is reprinted here to stimulate thought among those in the hunt for a PR post.“Internal communications” is an anachronism. Born from the recognition that...

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The Indispensable Role of Today's Public Relations Pro

As we enter 2015, the importance of public relations today can not be underestimated. And for aspiring PR pros this is especially relevant to keep in mind.   Public relations is essential to a...

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Ponder Before You Post

In this age of instantaneous communications and rapid sound bites, long gone is the luxury of correcting something said in haste. Today's proliferation of channels and technologies has completely...

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Older Does Not Translate to Dead; Ideas to Turn the Tide

I was at a communications conference recently whose primary focus was on innovation in the communications industry. There were a range of topics largely centered on curation, creativity, content, crowd...

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The Essence and Nature of Wise Counsel

hare on TwitterAs POTUS Ronald Reagan once coined, "There you go again..."  One might ponder that in this day and age when "Drugs, Sex and Rock & Roll" no longer mix well and Cosby is on the hot...

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Aspire to Higher - Benchmarks for a PR Pro

This post first appeared in Spin Sucks.  Much continues to be penned on the role of public relations and how the field has changed throughout the years. It is the subject of lively discussion as...

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Recovering from a Bad Career Move – The Life You Save May Be Your Own

This advice was originally written for Blue Steps -- "Executive Career Insider, your expert source on executive search and careers."History is littered with the hulls of rudderless ships because the...

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How to Get a Mentor

Everyone needs a mentor. There is no doubt that mentorship has positive lift for young and old, job seekers and career ladder climbers, students and teachers, managers and individual contributors.  I...

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Do As I Do, Not As I Say!

Yet again corporate America comes ashore with another stark example of why "behavior is all that matters."  Hat tip to Shel Holtz for the "ship to shore" inspiration and reminder that solid moorings...

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 Ageism: The Pause that PerplexesPatti Temple Rocks and Scott Monty Opine on the "Agedemic" at the PRSA Silicon Valley Friday Forum on November 20, 2020.Ageism is getting old. “Long on experience” used...

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