In the past, your career brand was expressed primarily through a traditional resume. Today, your brand encompasses every way you promote yourself, both in electronic and more traditional formats. “Marketing Your Career Brand” will help you identify needs of your customers—whether they are potential clients, a prospective employer, or your current employer—and how your brand will address those needs. This issue of TD at Work will show you: • how to define your career brand, and how to develop your marketing message • the tools you can use, including various social media, to market yourself • how to choose which tools to use, based on your intended audience and reason for being online • the differences between a general and federal resume.

When it comes to building a personal brand, some people dismiss the process as being too time-consuming, or not that important. To be honest, you will have to devote time and energy to self-branding properly. Consistency and quality are key to getting the best out of your branding exercise. But the idea that building a personal brand is not essential is just false, and here's why: People are Googling you at every stage of your career. Regardless of your age or professional stage, someone is screening you online. What they find can have significant implications for your professional (and personal) well-being. Personal branding gives you the chance to control how clients and prospects see you. It gives you the opportunity to ensure that no one but you manipulate and control the narrative. This book discusses all about personal branding and marketing.

Praise for Career Distinction "Hands down, this book is the bible on branding for your career!" -- Susan Britton Whitcomb, author of Job Search Magic "As a professional resume writer and career coach, I have extolled the concept of personal branding for my clients for years. Now, for the first time ever, I have an outstanding resource to recommend--Career Distinction by William Arruda and Kirsten Dixson. This book details the concept of personal branding in a magnificent and easy-to-digest presentation that is a must-buy for every serious job seeker." -- Wendy S. Enelow, CCM, MRW, JCTC, CPRW Executive Director of the Career Masters Institute "Arruda and Dixson are widely respected in the global career coaching community as gurus who not only teach but live the personal branding model, and their expertise and passion show through on every page of this practical, indispensable book. I highly recommend it to all who want to distinguish themselves from the competition." -- L. Michelle Tullier, PhD, Vice President of Right Management and author of The Unofficial Guide to Landing a Job

In the past, your career brand was expressed primarily through a traditional resume. Today, your brand encompasses every way you promote yourself, both in electronic and more traditional formats. "Marketing Your Career Brand" will help you identify needs of your customers--whether they are potential clients, a prospective employer, or your current employer--and how your brand will address those needs. This issue of TD at Work will show you: - how to define your career brand, and how to develop your marketing message - the tools you can use, including various social media, to market yourself - how to choose which tools to use, based on your intended audience and reason for being online - the differences between a general and federal resume.

Are YOU the brand of choice in your workplace? The world's most successful brand names inspire loyalty and trust. You rely on them again and again for their quality, innovation, and performance. What would it mean for your career, your job satisfaction—and your income potential—if your boss, colleagues, and customers felt the same about YOU? This groundbreaking book provides you with the only start-to-finish system for defining, communicating, and taking control of your leadership personal brand at work, whether you are leading yourself or leading others. Modeled after proven big-brand marketing methods, Master the Brand Called YOU guides you step-by-step through corporate branding techniques never before adapted for personal use. You will learn how to: * Identify the 6 essential positioning elements that define your leadership personal brand * Master the 5 everyday activities that most clearly communicate your brand as a leader * Avoid the top 20 Leadership Personal Brand Busters that could keep you from success * Increase both your earning power and your job satisfaction * Build on-the-job trust and loyalty in YOU

Discover the Secrets of Personal Branding. Hi, my name is Mark and I am going to reveal to you my proven, step-by-step method of Personal Branding. In this book, I am going to outline many of the methods and secrets that I've used to create a successful personal brand. Have you ever used Google to look yourself up? Go ahead and take a moment to enter your name into the search engine. I’ll wait. Are you back? Great! What pops up first? Do you even show up at all? What does the world have to say about you? What do your social networks have to say to anyone else who might Google you? For a lot of us the result is an uncontrolled mess of descriptors and identifiers that lacks the necessary cohesion to arrest an audience. Others of us find that we are invisible. This is just one example I use to convey to you the necessity of personal branding. It might seem daunting. It may seem downright terrifying. But I know that if you are willing to trust yourself to me, I can lead you on your journey to reinventing your personal identity and transforming it into a strong and memorable personal brand. I won't lie, building and maintaining an exemplary personal brand isn't easy. If it was, brands such as Cocoa Cola and Disney wouldn't be such an anomaly. Nor would people like Oprah and David Beckham. But I promise to make it simple. Don't believe it can be simple? Maybe you will be convinced by the countless personal testimonies successful people have been kind enough to contribute to this book. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn… Why Personal Branding is very important? How to improve your personal brand by observing corporate brands Personal Branding success stories Understanding your targets How to become the master of your niche Personal Branding Blueprint How to define what makes your special How to tell your story How to avoid personal branding mistakes Building your personal brand in your current job for more success Online and Offline Tips, Tools and Techniques for building your personal brand Killer Social Networking Mistakes Much, much more! Order your copy today! Check Out What Others Are Saying… "Solid information presented in a professional yet entertaining manner." Grady Harp "I have never thought of associating "branding" with an individual, after I read this book I realized how important branding is to everyone. This book shows that personal branding could help in every aspect of the career, to win a job, to get your boss's approval, to seal a deal... there are case studies in this book to prove all these. The author also introduces useful offline and online tools for branding yourself. I particularly like how the online tools were introduced in detail. For non tech-savvy guys like me, having a guide to creating a blog, managing the server issues, using LinkedIn and all sorts of technical matters surely saves lots of time." Moore Ronson "Mark Cijo paints a good picture for you on how to market yourself, how to get your message out there, how to gain the accolades that you deserve." William D. Curnutt aka Pastor Dan "My favorite part of this book is when the author highlights four successful brands and shows how you can apply the techniques of their success to your own personal branding. I hadn't thought so deeply about how to an analytical approach to my self presentation online, and I loved both the information and the advice on how to track my progress." Carla Davis Tags: personal branding, you branding, self branding, self packaging, self promotion, brand you, the brand called you, personal identity, personal branding for dummies, personal success

Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about personal branding with this practical guide. Personal branding is a relatively new concept but it can be adopted and applied by almost anybody, in any industry. Whether you are searching for a new job or simply want to build a strong professional network, it is essential that you get your branding right. This guide will take you through all the steps, from choosing the social media that best suits you to avoiding embarrassing moments online. In 50 minutes you will be able to: - Understand the importance of personal branding and the benefits it can bring - Build a strong online presence by building a good reputation for yourself and your service - Avoid making mistakes when developing your brand, such as committing a social media faux-pas ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM COACHING The Coaching series from the 50Minutes collection is aimed at all those who, at any stage in their careers, are looking to acquire personal or professional skills, adapt to new situations or simply re-evaluate their work-life balance. The concise and effective style of our guides enables you to gain an in-depth understanding of a broad range of concepts, combining theory, constructive examples and practical exercises to enhance your learning.

Online personal branding is a requirement for all professionals. The common argument of the experts is: you have a digital footprint - in social media and on the internet - so people are already making impressions of you. Take control of their perceptions. More importantly, you have an opportunity to proactively project your personal brand onto networks. Two other advantages of personal branding are that it forces you to be visionary of your career goals and helps you land favorable employment. This books shares a functional angle to personal branding that is refreshingly simpler than the traditional marketing angle. The definition of an online personal brand is the combination of a skill set, an aura, and an identity, and there is discussion where the concepts overlap.