Applied Voice Execution
I work with clients to help them understand the rise of the Voice home market, and the radical transformation of the customer journey and path to purchase. This ebook provides marketers and business leaders insight into this 500 million dollar industry, and shares why Voice needs to be the center of your strategy in 2018. ​

Clean up your Digital Dirt

While the use of social channels to screen potential hires can expose companies to legal pitfalls, and there are many issues around discrimination and privacy that must be considered, companies can and do use social media information to augment the hiring process. Some use it well, others may not, but the sheer scale of social media activity means candidates must be aware that in various ways it has become part of the hiring process. So, if you’re online, you should assume your hiring manager, recruiter or HR rep is too. You should assume that how you present online is (at least) as important as how you present in person. The time to clean up is now.

Build your Digital Portfolio

The competitive nature of the employment market means individuals need to find ways to stand out and ‘sell’ themselves. It’s a new appendix to your resume. This is nothing new, it’s just that the ways in which you can do this have changed—and mostly they’ve moved online. However, you don’t need to be a tech genius to sell your skills online. There are many simple and free tools you can use to get started. If there is one golden rule when it comes to building your online portfolio it’s this: brag as much as you like, but be honest and get ready to back it up. Here are my tips to getting started and making it work.

Build your Personal Brand

Building your personal brand may sound like the last thing you need to do if you’re happy and challenged in your current job. Whether you work for yourself, for a large organization or a very small one, it’s just smart career management to demonstrate why you’re an expert in your respective domain — and to do this in ways that colleagues and associates can witness every day. Developing your personal brand is now essential to ongoing career development, even if you’re not actively searching for a new job. Today, take control of the biggest brand in your life; the brand called ‘You’.