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How Greening Your Business Can Boost Your Career & Your Values

The #COP21 Climate Change International Conference going on in Paris this week is big news. Hopefully for more than just creating headlines and soundbites. But how can you personally relate to environmental issues to what you on a day to day basis or how this impacts your job? A poll by the job board Monster.ca, found that 81% of Canadians considered that their employer was “polluting the environment,” “ignoring the need to be environmentally friendly,”… Read More »How Greening Your Business Can Boost Your Career & Your Values

Do you really not want me to endorse you?

Time to confess. Not all my connections on LinkedIn are people I know well or have worked with. So I do get a little surprise when someone endorses me for a skill that they have not directly experienced or seen me display. When you are building out your profile LinkedIn will tell you that listing your skills will increase the chances of opportunities coming to you by 4 times. The system… Read More »Do you really not want me to endorse you?

Emoji’s on LinkedIn – What Were You Thinking?

Don’t hit return too soon! On September 1st this year LinkedIn began rolling out a completely re-designed messaging feature on its platform. Their official blog announced it“New Messaging Experience Comes to LinkedIn”. After a few initial glitches and confusion, as expected with most new product features or upgrades, it now seems to be embraced and used more regularly than its previous versions. In general the messaging on desktop and mobile… Read More »Emoji’s on LinkedIn – What Were You Thinking?

What Do You Think of Stephen Harper’s LinkedIn Profile?

Even with our recent election here in Canada and the continuing barrage of media coverage for the Presidential race down in the US (still a year away!!) I still do not tire of reading about politics. It may be my British upbringing, but I have always been interested in the subject, at local, regional and national level as well as internationally. My career personal branding coaching and former recruitment mind always… Read More »What Do You Think of Stephen Harper’s LinkedIn Profile?

Can Your LinkedIn Profile Become Your Obituary?

My Dad, like most English people, was a huge newspaper reader. He always said he checked the obituaries on a daily basis. If he wasn’t mentioned he got on with his day! The UK has more daily newspapers than most countries have magazines! If we had a blue recycling box back in my childhood, we would have needed at least two just for all the newspapers we used to get… Read More »Can Your LinkedIn Profile Become Your Obituary?

The #1 Mistake (Nearly) Everyone Makes on LinkedIn and What to do About It.

If someone is going to search for your name on Google are they going to type in First Name, Last Name and a series of random letters and numbers?  Of course not! Then why do you continue to label your professional profile on LinkedIn this way? What most people do not realize is that you can custom the web address where your LinkedIn profile is placed, it is like your… Read More »The #1 Mistake (Nearly) Everyone Makes on LinkedIn and What to do About It.

5 Personal Brand Lessons You Can Learn From Halloween That Are Not Scary

Halloween never used to be a big celebration for me growing up in the UK. In fact it was never even on our radar as kids. The big fall event for us was always Guy Fawkes Day on November 5th. This is a typically British, slightly twisted, celebration of attempts to blow up the government and execute the conspirators and involves large fires, burning human effigies and setting off equally… Read More »5 Personal Brand Lessons You Can Learn From Halloween That Are Not Scary

5 Things You Can Do This Morning to Boost Your Personal Brand & Career

The popular military call in the morning “Rise and Shine” is most commonly thought to refer to the ‘rise’ – rousing your self from your sleep and ‘shine’ referring to the need to clean your boots until they are shiny. Over the years the term has been adapted more to refer to getting up and excelling at your day. It can apply equally to your personal brand. The goal with… Read More »5 Things You Can Do This Morning to Boost Your Personal Brand & Career

6 Surefire Strategies to Survive in Your Career – and MAKE IT!

Today, October 21st 2015, is the actual date that Marty McFly arrived in ‘Back to the Future II’. A number of predictions in the films have come to fruition – such as wearable technology, video calls, hands free gaming, tablets and fingerprint recognition. Of course a few have not. We can never guess it all. Although we know little about Marty McFly’s career aspirations 30 years in the future, we do… Read More »6 Surefire Strategies to Survive in Your Career – and MAKE IT!

5 Steps to Staying Relevant at Work after 50

With the different approaches to work, baby boomers could be forgiven for believing that their relevance in the workplace is disappearing faster than the seemingly daily advances in technology. It is why I find many clients questioning their work and the bigger picture of their overall life. Often we end up exploring a deeper meaning to it all and land in the areas of mindfulness and purpose. But a report… Read More »5 Steps to Staying Relevant at Work after 50