Last July, I wrote a post about the Best Online Résumé Ever. It was the online résumé of an online marketing manager who constructed it to look exactly like Google’s free Analytics tool. There were a number of reasons why this was a fantastic online CV, including the facts that it was relevant, demonstrative, fascinating and optimized for […]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. Entrepreneurs and solopreneurs are a special breed of #CareerGravity practitioners. There are two main reasons for this. First, their online presence is usually critical to their ability to acquire and keep customers. Second, […]
Each Saturday, #we publish our Chart of the Week. It presents interesting trends and data, usually related to the U.S. labor market. You will find more statistics at Statista This week’s chart comes courtesy of Statista and clearly shows that LinkedIn is currently at the top of the technology food chain: For today’s chart, we […]
Google Authorship allows you to link your Google+ profile to the content you create. It’s a powerful online personal branding tool that allows you to explicitly tell the search engines that a web page is your content. This helps your branding in two ways. First, you get “credit” from Google for all of the content you […]
As he presented this past Thursday’s webinar, Jon DiPietro, my co-founder at #CareerGravity, cautioned attendees to choose Web hosting wisely for their online footprints’ hubs, their WordPress blogs. Yes, several factors demand consideration, but perhaps the most important for novices is customer support: How well does the Web hosting company tend to its customers’ needs? […]
When you need to find a job, the biggest limiting factor you face is time. A job search requires research, phone calls, networking, applications, emails, etc… But there are only so many hours in a day for all of those activities. And if you’re still working at the same time you’re trying to find a […]
OK, so you’ve taken all of the steps required to establish your online personal brand. You’ve created your online personal brand and created a WordPress resume. After all of this hard work, it’s time for the great unveiling. If you’ve used WordPress to build your website and followed the best practices for search engine optimization, you’ll […]
Lindsey Kirchoff is a job hunting Tufts University student. She thought that the traditional job hunting process was completely backwards from what she’d learned in her marketing classes. So Lindsey created a blog called “How to Market to Me; Your Guide to Getting to the Millennial Market.” Her story is a great example of how […]
Looking for a host, whether for a small dinner party, a thousand-guest wedding, a national convention or something else, we look for someone who contributes 110 percent. When we seek someone who will watch over our best friends or most important colleagues, we want a person who will treat them with the utmost care and […]
That’s what prehistoric man did. Anthropologists and geologists alike hypothesize that way back, back before written history, mankind was laying claim to property in whatever way he and she knew how. Brute force ruled the day, during those first days. The physically stronger clans got first dibs to everything they got to. As humans grew […]
