“When you’re through changing, you’re through.” by Bruce Barton

LMGTFY: Bruce Barton (1886 – 1967), American author, advertising executive, and politician. The B in BBDO. Credited with naming General Motors and General Electric.

Inspirational quote: “When you’re through changing, you’re through” Bruce Barton

Career Advisory – the competence of the future

Currently, the only constant is change, and this also applies to the labor market. The data shows that advice based on knowledge about the labor market (e.g. how to write a CV or use LinkedIn) changes approximately every 2 years. In other words: tips that worked three years ago can now harm the candidate / employee. Knowledge in the field of Career Advisory is often improperly reduced to “CV formatting,” and associated only with traditional job counseling, but there is much more to it: knowledge about market trends, understanding how technology works, diagnosis of competencies and designing career paths – and these are just a few examples!

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Free session for experienced managers & executives in Europe who are currently looking for a job (or getting ready for it): “Elegant Networking for job searching managers”.

With the changes on the job market, experienced managers and executives don’t have the luxury of “skipping” networking entirely. You have to do it. Professionally. Elegantly. Systematically.

This interactive meeting is for those experienced managers and executives who:
– have an innate resistance to networking, especially online
– have a relatively small network / are not “natural networkers”
– feel uncomfortable reaching out to the network they have
– don’t know how to approach someone that could actually help them

We’ll also cover:
– how to audit your current network
– how to stay in touch with people you know
– how to continue building your network
– how to craft messages on LinkedIn that are inviting and don’t reek of spam or desperation
– how to “network up”

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