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10 steps to develop your online brand

10 steps to develop your online brand

10 steps to develop your online brand This is an extract from our new book on the 10 steps to develop your online brand, published today called You're Hired! Job Hunting Online: The Complete Guide. by Tristram Hooley, Jim Bright and David Winter. Published by Trotman. 1. Decide what it is you have to offer. The first step in ...

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Oh Bad – the Larkin poetry of paperwork

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Oh Bad - the Larkinesque poetry of paperwork by Jim Bright I work all day and get half finished at night, I wake at four to soundless dark, I stare, In time my iPad will backlight Till then I see what’s really always there Unresting paperwork for the whole day now Making all thought impossible but how And where and when I shall ...

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Is goal setting past its peak? Some new data.

How long has there been serious interest in goal setting?  You might be forgiven for thinking it has always been a key approach to changing human behavior.  However according to PsycInfo (the largest and most authoritative database on published psychological research), between 1900 and 1980, a search of this data base on the terms "goal ...

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The Strange Strength of Vulnerability

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The Strange Strength of Vulnerability Here is a paradox - the strongest systems are those that are most susceptible to change. They are the ones that have a lot of connections.   The more connected a person is, the more sources of support they can draw upon when they are struggling. The more people in a person's ...

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Read The Chaos Theory of Careers Chapter 1 for free here!

Read the first chapter of my new book The Chaos Theory of Careers for free here: KindleReader.LoadSample({containerID: 'kindleReaderDiv1', asin: 'B004VEJ1Z6', width: '700', height: '782'});

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Jim Bright talking change and chaos video from his Cannexus Keynote 2011

Here is a five minute video of my Keynote "Know Change and No Change: how I learned to love Chaos" presented at the Cannexus Career Development Conference in January 2011 If you like it, please mark it as liked on youtube and even leave a comment or two!

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Jim Bright Keynote video clip on chaos, shift happening and spys in Ottawa

This is a 11 minute clip of my Keynote Know Change and No Change:how I learned to love chaos given to open the Cannexus Career Development Conference in Ottawa, January 2011.

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