I recently had the opportunity to attend the Career Professionals of Canada’s professional development day – Strategies for Success to listen to a collection of career and coaching experts and network with some great fellow career professionals. As a career professional there were many pieces of expert advice that I will start to consider and implement in my own business, but for the job seeker there was also some great… Read More »Trends in job searching
Personal branding is in part about keeping at it. This week was a lesson in perseverance – and I learnt it from a 7 year old! My son has not taken a great interest in learning to ride his bike, he has a scooter that he zips about on and seemed very happy, rarely getting on his bike. That was until – PEER PRESSURE kicked in! Many of the other… Read More »Personal Branding – Its Like Riding a Bike
"It's always Showtime."David D'Alessandro It was 10 years ago this summer that Tom Peters wrote the ranting article in Fast Company – A Brand Called You. He was ahead of his time – as usual. Fast forward 10 years and I listened today to a presentation delivered by one of Tom Peters people on personal branding – a Brand You webinar. It was poor to say the least. There were… Read More »Tom Peters and Personal Branding – A Little Disappointed
The finale was a little predictable in terms of content and outcome. Trump was his usual 'movie star' self, but he does not do well with scripted teleprompters – his personal brand is all about NOW! I said back in after Week 11 that Stefani was the dark horse and either would go all the way or get eliminated by someone who saw her as a threat. She survived and… Read More »The Apprentice – The Final Week
Now just the final four and if it was my choice it would be straight to the final with James and Stefani – Nicole and Frank are just not in the same league. The final task was a little lame by previous Trump standards and as usual the teams got to call back past contestants to help them out. In the end the results from both teams were okay and… Read More »The Apprentice – Week 13
I thought that I was going to have Trump – The Apprentice withdrawls as the series draws to a close – and this is the final series apparently. But no – I have found a replacement! Gordon Ramsay. If you do not know him, he is a foul mouthed, loud and in your face celebrity chef, who is one of the top UK chefs. I watched his previous program –… Read More »Gordon Ramsay – Kitchen Nightmares
Down to the final 6 and split in to three teams they all had to work on 'selling and marketing' Trumps buildings in Las Vegas. All followed a similar path, but James and Stefani managed to have a complete package by the end – great lesson for personal brand building – you need to have a full picture in order to have the most impact. And boy did those two… Read More »The Apprentice – Week 12
This week started off with Arrow questioning the loyalty of Tim – it became quite heated – you just knew if they lost that his head was going to be on the block. They lost and he almost was saved by James covering his own skin by bringing Frank in to the mix of potential 'firees'. But Tim made the same error as many have done in the boardroom, not… Read More »Apprentice – Week 11
A recent study here in Canada for Workopolis – Canada's number one job board – by NorthStar Research Partners has reported that CEO's/Presidents have the highest level of job satisfaction – I must be extra satisfied given I am President of my own company and a Career counselor which came in 6th! Now Steven Heyer the now former CEO of Starwood Hotels might disagree, having just resigned from his role… Read More »Its Better At The Top
This was all about sales and Arrow won hands down. Kinetic were a little naive to think that Arrow's use of some hard ball tactics was going to backfore on them in the boardroom – this is Trump after all – one of the ultimate hard ball sales people. Angela – who was a favourite of Trump's had to go – she even said so!