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In your job search, you, the job seeker, seek out the employer, but that doesn’t have to be the case throughout your entire career.  There are many ways that you can brand yourself to stand out, increase your visibility in front of career stakeholders and inevitably make employers come to you. Here are just 5 [...]

I’m pretty sure the overall consensus was:  ”Yes, we should offer college degrees in recruiting and talent acquisition.” And yes social media is driving the future of recruiting and many other industries. But how to get there, well, that’s where the beauty of diverse opinion spread its colorful wings.  What was clear in my analysis [...]

I recently had the pleasure of chatting with TalentCulture’s good friend, Phil Simon regarding his new book “The New Small”.  Simon is the author of three books: The New Small, Why New Systems Fail, and The Next Wave of Technologies. A recognized technology expert, he consults companies on how to optimize their use of technology.  His contributions have [...]

Yes, we want to take over the world.  Our monster end-of-year #TChat show about how social, mobile and video as rock stars impact workplace culture and predictions for 2011 was a rousing success. Over 1,500 smarty pants tweets in the hour alone.  A hat tip and a thank you to all of you who did. [...]

I thought it would be useful to our readers to include weekly recommended readings in preparation for #TChat. We will give this format a whirl from now into 2011. Wow, did I just say that? 2010 has been such an interesting year for workplace culture innovation. As you may know, I’m in love with ideas. [...]

While many students and professionals have jumped into the blogosphere to share their POV with the world on different topics, industries and areas of interest, some out there are more hesitant to make the investment and commitment to full-time blogging. This may be due in part to them a) not knowing how to build and [...]

I’ve recently gotten into the practice of managing, organizing and consulting for Twitter chats including #LBSchat, #TChat and others. Bear with me in this very straightforward methodology for creating a chat on Twitter. A Definition: What’s a Twitter chat? A Twitter chat is a scheduled group orchestrated around a hashtag. Chats usually last about an [...]

The Internet really upended the corporate communications industry. Though PR professionals used to jeer at advertising pros for being message control freaks, and marketers used to impress boardrooms with fancypants charts and graphs and make the creatives and spindoctors look as if they failed high school algebra, at the end of the day, everyone got along. Everyone knew their job.

I, like most of my fellow bloggers out there, do not have the funds necessary to launch national advertising campaigns to promote a blog. Therefore, since my team and I founded Career Rocketeer over a year ago, I have constantly faced the challenge of finding new, free and/or low-cost ways to promote our content, build up our blog’s awareness and increase our readership. Thankfully, if you are creative and determined, you can uncover countless ways to promote your efforts without breaking the bank.

Culture has always fascinated me. In the TalentCulture community we like to think of it in two ways (thanks to www.Dictionary.com): first, as the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent; and second, as the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or [...]