Professional Branding Archives – Power Connections

02 Aug 22

Career Management is Hard!

Managing one’s professional path, sharpening one’s skills and developing one’s unique persona and brand, takes making a plan, it takes patience as it is built over time and it requires behavioral consistency, and maybe most difficult of all, being on the receiving end of direct feedback along the way.

KISS: The Elevator Speech

Don’t think for a second that your elevator speech isn’t important! It is so important that it is one of the most critical elements of an effective job search. No lie. It’s true.

The Best Career Advice

The BEST career advice I have ever received was gifted to me 20 years ago. At that time, I reported to a Divisional President, who said to me “To be successful, you need to be the expert in what you do. You need to be the one that everyone thinks of, that everyone calls, when they have a question or need of information about that thing that you do.”