Today You Need More Than a Resume...
You Need a Career Tool Box
(...and if you're sending your teen to college, or your college grad into the workforce, he/she needs one too!)
Today's effective search requires using every tool in your arsenal. Based on direct experience, Executive Power Brand is proud to endorse the following as among the best, most trusted services and providers in the careers industry.
In this section you'll find recommendations for resources for on-line identity, web delivered personal branding, e-mail and snail-mail campaigns, executive networking and job search sites, a cool career productivity tool, a corporate coach, a college coach, and even an executive agent.
On-line Identity (Blogs, Websites, Logos and more)
Kirsten Dixson
For more than four years Deb Dib has collaborated with Kirsten Dixson, the original founder of Brandego and a pioneering expert in online branding for career success. In fact, Kirsten developed this website with designer, Sue Brettell. Having completed Kirsten's Online Identity Certification Program through Reach, Deb Dib is well-equipped to oversee your online identity campaign. Check out these sites that Kirsten's team developed for Deb's clients:
Today, we encourage clients to utilize blogs as their primary branded Web presence and create an online identity plan to consistently build a volume of on-brand search engine results. This is an excellent example of a blog for one of Kirsten's clients.
How does your online ID measure up? Use the Online ID Calculator now, and contact Deb or Kirsten for more information.
Web-delivered Personal Branding
The Reach Branding Club
Deb uses the Reach Branding Club Program as a supplement to Executive Power Brand's Programs. The Reach Branding Club is a pioneering, online, web-delivered, self-paced program covering the complete spectrum of personal branding -- from brand identification to brand management.
If you are an Executive Power Brand client, membership in the RBC is free as part of your Executive Power Brand Program.
For those executives on a strict budget, or for those who want to "test-drive" the concept of personal branding before retaining a brand coach, The Reach Branding Club is a great resource.
Personal Branding Information & Certification Training
Reach Personal Branding
The global leader in personal branding, founded by William Arruda. The newsletter has a great personal branding article every month. Deb Dib holds Certified Personal Brand Strategist certification through Reach--and is on the pioneering Reach Advance team of early adopter brand strategists. Are you a career consultant? Ask Deb if Reach's certification programs are right for you.
Targeted E-Mail & Snail-Mail Campaigns
Pro/File Research
The definitive resource for smaller, more intimate mailings or e-mailings to companies and recruiters. Great service and great data. Owner Bob Bronstein is a Harvard and Wharton educated, Fortune 100 marketing pro who has lent his considerable talents to serving the needs of executive job seekers for over ten years. A well-known and trusted resource in the resume industry, Bob has impeccable credentials and will help you determine the best targets for your resume. Use the website to contact him for a consultation and be sure to let him know that Deb Dib referred you!
JobBait, Inc.
The definitive resource for executives desiring the ultimate in large volume, high-quality, targeted direct mail campaigns to companies and recruiters. This is NOT "throw paint at a wall and hope it sticks" mailing. This is highly researched, tightly targeted super executive level, steel cut engraved stationary, top-of the pyramid service. You have us build your brand, construct your resume, and write a powerful employment proposal cover letter. You have Mark Hovind--owner, engineer, and data guru, do the rest. Contact Mark for a free consultation, and let him know you found him through Deb Dib at Executive Power Brand.
Executive Agent
JobWhiz
This unique service is for very senior executives who want to save time and effort and maintain confidentiality by using an executive agent to execute their job search.
Debra Feldman, the Job Whiz, has been recommended by Fortune magazine as among the best executive agents in the business. She helps her elite clients by researching targeted companies and specific industry leaders. She’ll help you determine what value you hold that will attract these individuals and persuade them to agree to an exploratory conversation.
She makes the arrangements for the introduction, helps plan the agenda, coordinates any needed leave behinds. She sets up meetings, avoids the gatekeepers, preserves your privacy, and positions you with selectivity and exclusivity. And she keeps track to ensure follow up appointments and initiatives to keep you connected and on the target’s radar.
Executive Productivity Tools
JibberJobber
How great would it be to spend just a short time each week logged onto a powerful, intuitive website that delivers a simple way to build and manage your network as well as your active or passive job search activities and documents?
JibberJobber allows you to toss out that spiral notebook labeled “job search” or “career” and instead rely on a simple, yet powerful web-based program to help you to keep every detail in one organized place where you can quickly organize your network, job search, and career management activities. JibberJobber even has an interface with LinkedIn to provide seamless interaction between two great toolsets.
Whether your job search status is currently active or inactive, you ARE a job seeker. The longevity of a CEO is less than four years. If you are a CMO, you could be looking at 18 months. Don’t let your critical career-building activities lie fallow until you need a new job and are panicking that your network is nowhere and you are woefully unprepared! Stay painlessly organized and primed for success with JibberJobber!
CXO, Entrepreneur, and Consultant Newsletters
Information Strategies
Information Strategies, Inc. is a leading marketing and media company, renowned for its timely information, and ability to solve problems and provide creative, practical solutions to business issues. Led by President and CEO, JoAnn Laing, ISI delivers competitive advantage through information and the innovative use of media. They employ and utilize some of the world’s leading experts in their fields and produce an array of no-cost newsletters for the busy executive. Visit Information Strategies to sign up for one or more newsletters.
Executive Networking & Career Management
Netshare
We highly recommend Netshare, featured by Forbes as among the best senior executive job search and career management organizations. Netshare has exclusive job postings for 6- and 7-figure jobs, but more than that it is a vibrant community where members can access a deep well of the latest (and proven) information in all areas of job search and career management. In addition, Netshare has lively on-line member forums where CEOs, CFOs, and other senior and C-suite members can brainstorm with their peers. Their “Ask a Coach” weekly calls are invaluable to many members who have burning questions. CEO Kathy Simmons and her team are dedicated to providing personal attention and one-to-one and many-to-one support for their members. They love what they do, and it shows.
Best of the Web for Job Hunting
Job-Hunt.org
An award-winning employment “portal” Website, Job-Hunt links to 10,000 employers and employment resources. In addition to links to the Fortune 500, by state, Job-Hunt also links to thousands of smaller employers as well as education and government employers in each state.
With a focus on networking, Job-hunt links to corporate and military “alumni” networks, from E & Y Alumni to The Marine Corps League, and over 1,000 other national and local industry/professional organizations and job search support groups. In addition, Job-Hunt’s Professionals provide articles and advice on the whole job search process. The newest Job-Hunt Pro is Liz Ryan, Job-Hunt’s Networking Pro. Liz is a former Fortune 500 HR Director who is a nationally recognized expert in the job search process and also a columnist for Business Week and Yahoo! HotJobs.
Job-Hunt’s recognition include Forbes Best of the Web for Job Hunting since 2002, US News & World Report top site for finding work since 2006, and PC Magazine Best of the Internet for Careers (book, 2004).
Corporate Coaching
Kim Batson
Kim Batson, a Certified Leadership & Talent Management Coach, Certified Career Management Coach, and Certified Personal Branding Strategist, brings over a decade of experience in the careers industry, and an extensive corporate background, including Fortune 100 experience, in sales, management, coaching and recruiting.
The majority of Kim's clients are at the VP and C-level at some of the world’s leading companies. She is a specialist in working with Technology Executives and is known as "The CIO's Coach". Kim has developed over 12 career management, personal branding, and leadership programs and coaches today’s executive leaders with outstanding results. Kim is a frequently requested conference speaker on the subject of career management, personal branding and other related topics.
Selected as an Executive Coach for NETSHARE.com, voted Best of Forbes and Fortune Magazine, Kim provides NETSHARE’s executive membership with coaching and training on a regular basis in career management topics through one-to-one and one-to-many executive coaching and teleseminars. She is also an executive coach and writer for CIO Decisions Magazine.
"Ivy League" Career & Performance Coaching
(for College Students & Emerging Professionals)
Careers in Context - Chandlee Bryan
Chandlee Bryan is an expert in connecting emerging professionals with employment opportunities. She offers individual and corporate clients a powerful combination: strong counseling skills combined with an insider’s view of industry trends and recruiting practices at highly selective institutions. Chandlee has over eight years of experience in career management at Ivy League institutions, and served as Director of Career Services at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. She has also worked as a recruiter for a biomedical software company. Chandlee is a certified professional resume writer and earned a Master’s degree in Counseling from the University of Virginia.
Chandlee works with individual counseling clients and provides consulting services to employers on developing recruiting and training programs designed to engage, inform, and retain emerging professionals. Her operating philosophy is a simple one: to understand the driving needs and values of her clients and to partner with them to develop effective sustainable solutions and communications to address needs. The key to her effectiveness is her warmth, creativity, and structured approach to conducting research and problem solving.
If you and your organization could benefit from Chandlee’s strategic insights and skills, contact Chandlee to discuss how you can gain “Ivy League” career management expertise without the expense of tuition or a six-figure recruiting budget.
