Personal brand is a key differentiator at the start of your career, here is a series of short posts on how to build yours.
Our brains love planning: Huge promise of future rewards No obligation to deliver Instead do this: Start from the end: outline what the plan supposed to deliver, where is it supposed to take you. Set a timer and limit planning to 30 mins max. If there’s one thing our brain is also aware of […]
Do too much planning and that’s all you’ll do: Plan Read More »
Ask for additional work in an area of the company that interests you or join a project that is already established. Do internal research to provide additional visibility or insight into some aspect of company operations. Then share it. As a new arrival I once setup a dashboard of sales by product and salesperson which
3 things you can do right now to build your brand – no experience required Read More »
Two grads started work at the same time. Knowing he had no experience, the first grad waited to be told what to do. It seemed safer: he would learn along the way and eventually take his shot. He pursued this approach through changing company priorities, new managers, M&As, etc. With each of these events
The story of the two grads Read More »
Companies’ priority is to create value, and they reward those who help them do that. Now hold that thought. Starting in a new workplace with little or no experience it’s natural to wait to be told what to do. That’s absolutely fine at the beginning. By all means do the work assigned to
Adding value fast as a new employee Read More »
When I started working I didn’t know there was such a thing as a personal brand. In fact I stumbled onto mine by accident: I was a recent hire, doing my job, minding my own business. As a confirmed introvert I assumed I’d do good work, get noticed and be promoted when the time was
How I found my own brand Read More »
When I started working I didn’t know there was such a thing as a personal brand. In fact I stumbled onto mine by accident: I was a recent hire, doing my job, minding my own business. As a confirmed introvert I assumed I’d do good work, get noticed and be promoted when the time was
Building your brand when you have no experience. Read More »
