Are you using Google Alerts in your job search? If you're not, let me introduce you to this wonderful application. Google has a simple, free tool that allows you to monitor the web for any new content. The potential for you as a job seeker is really powerful! So, here are instructions on how to use Google Alerts to boost your job search effectiveness:

Love Him or Hate Him, There are Three Personal Branding Lessons from Donald Trump

Unless you live in a mountain in the woods with no Wi-Fi, you know that Donald Trump leads the crowded pack of candidates for president for the Republican Party. Agree with him or not, you have to admit that he has brought a lot of attention early on to a political race that usually, at this point in the competition, gets very little press coverage.

Only a few people ever take their career to the top. Want to be one of them?

The people who make it to the top aren’t just lucky; they’re overachievers. The ones that make a fortune for themselves aren’t like everybody else – they think and act differently! I’ve seen this firsthand so many times in my 12 years as a career professional.

I review a lot of resumes and LinkedIn profiles every week from people who want to work with us, and today I’d like to boil down the three core elements that most all resumes and online profiles are missing; these three things are essential to getting an employer’s attention and helping job seekers become happily employed with their perfect company.

Today I'd like to share with you some advice I gave to a reporter for the magazine Fast Company this afternoon. She asked me, "What advice do you give someone trying to recover from a bad interview?" Well,  I'd like you to hear it first!

Today I’d like to share with you a lesson that has completely changed one woman and her family around. I hope I don’t come across as bragging, because the point I really want to drive home is how discovering your true gifts can mean the world to you - and what you can mean to the world.

I do a lot of reading, and if you’ve heard me speak, you know that I don’t do a lot of reading from career books, because I find most of them are woefully out of date. My reading is usually a combination of sales and marketing books, coupled with personal improvement. I’m always thinking in the back of my mind when I read, “How can this information be used to help my clients get their next job even quicker? Can any of these strategies be used in a career search?”