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Increase Your Energy And Career Success – Care For Your Body!

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Caring For Your Body Helps Your Career Success http://youtu.be/Z_JK0ljoG0s When we lack energy, we come across as dull and unattractive, which doesn’t help our career prospects. In this video blog I discuss why and how this is a problem, and some simple steps you can do to help take care of yourself and your body, and boost your energy.

 

 

How To Have A Career That Really Works For You

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Book Cover smallI’m so proud to say that I have finally created my first ebook, ‘How To Have A Career That Really Works For You’, which is all about how to find career success in your dream career.  You can read more about it here.

It is the product of 15 years working in the executive career coaching field, and it takes you through everything you need to know in order to have clarity about what you want (and whatyou don’t), find your own sense of purpose and get into the right mental space for career success.

If you’re expecting to read about CV writing or interview skills or how to write your LinkedIn profile, that’s not what the book is about, because it focusses on having the right career success mindset. I plan to write an ebook on CV writing in the near future, where I’ll also talk about aspects of performing well at interview and what to do about LinkedIn (and why it’s worth paying attention to LinkedIn in the first place).

How To Have A Career That Really Works For You is on special offer for a limited period only.

So grab a copy while you can.

Does Blogging Help You Stand Out From The Pack?

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IBlogging Can Help Your Career Successf you’re looking for a new job, or a new career, one of the suggestions career experts like myself offer is: LinkedIn. Recruitment consultants crawl round LinkedIn like truffle hogs in an oak-wood, and LinkedIn provides an opportunity to showcase your sills and expertise to both speculative enquirers and those with a more serious interest.

In a recent blog post, Tony Restell proposes that, rather than relying on LinkedIn, job-seekers should concentrate their energies on blogging. In his view, LinkedIn doesn’t enable the recruiter to distinguish genuinely good candidates from poor ones. A blog helps you stand out from the pack.

To a large extent I agree with him, but there are a couple of areas where you need to be cautious: consistency and connection.

Consistency and Connection

As far as consistency is concerned, once you’ve started, you need to keep going. If your blogging schedule is inconsistent, particularly if there are large gaps between posts, you may look disorganised, or lacking in focus.

In terms of connection, how will people find your blog? Of course, you can mention it on your LinkedIn profile, and tell your friends on Facebook, but ideally you want to have a range of strategies for encouraging people to come and visit

So, if you are thinking of going down the blog route, what ‘s the best strategy?

Here are some questions to consider before you ever embark on a blogging approach for career success.

  • What do you want to achieve with your blog? Is it simply a new job, or are you in this for the long haul? Do you want to become an acknowledged expert in your field, or are you content to operate in the void?
  • How much time, energy and money do you want to spend on creating and maintaining your blog? This will depend on what resources you have available, and what image you want to project.
  • What help do you NEED in setting up and maintaining your blog? I have an IT background, including IT security, and at first I set up my blogs myself. However, I’ve come unstuck on a couple of occasions, and I’ve finally realised that I was not put on this planet to get down and dirty with the innermost secrets of WordPress.
  • Even if you have a strong technical bent, how are you with the written word? Most mainstream recruiters will be put off by typos or poor grammar.

There are plenty of ways to set up a blog cheaply and cheerfully  with relatively little technical knowledge – for example by using blogger, wordpress.com (this is different from wordpress.org, which I am using) or one of the other free platforms. You can also do video blogs using Youtube. But these might not project the image you want, or give you maximum control of your site.

So, if you want to stand out from the pack, blog by all means, but do it in a strategic way to ensure you achieve your goals.

If you need help with finding your career direction, or help with using a blog as part of your plan to stand out from the pack, then contact The Career Success Doctor for a complimentary Career Quickstart Conversation.