PR For Job Seeker

By Norma Yamaji Susan Hill, co-owner of Susan Hill Public Relations and former news anchor, discussed how to improve your job search and “open doors” through personal branding and public relations at a recent Pronet meeting on March 12. Hill outlined the strategy of C-R-E-A-T-E to maximize results as a job seeker. Not to be [...]

Personal Branding: Stand Out From the Crowd

By Susan Breidenbach Personal branding gives you a big advantage in today’s job market.  It’s how you stand out from the flood of resumes triggered by every posted job opening.  And it’s how the hidden jobs—which account for more than 80% of job openings these days—find you. That’s the message Bret Simmons delivered to ProNet [...]

Social Media: The New Language of Business

Social media has become an essential tool–for job search, and for business communication in general. Job seekers need to master it.

Managing what you share on Facebook.

While you must be visible to people interested in hiring you, it’s of penultimate importance that you control what is visible to them.

Online Reputation Management: Do You Know Where Your Name Is?

By Susan Breidenbach “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” —Oscar Wilde In Wilde’s time, the talking was done face to face, and some of it might work its way in to a newspaper with a geographically limited circulation. Today, the talking is done online and can spread all [...]