The way to hit a home run when describing yourself in an interview is to figure out which skills are most important in the ...

Whether you're drafting your resume, updating your LinkedIn profile, or just introducing yourself at a networking event, ...

How many times a week do you introduce yourself? Whether it’s in person, virtually, one-on-one, in a large group, or formally ...

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Pick up an old job-search advice book and you will probably come across a chapter on creating an elevator speech. The idea was to prepare a 90-second monologue that highlighted your key qualifications ...

Hiring managers all have their favorite interview questions, but they’re typically some variation of the common ones. For example, you might get, “How would your colleagues describe you?” or “Use ...

Somewhere along the line, we decided that bragging isn't included in the category called "work." Nine times out of ten a client comes to me saying, "I'd rather just put my head down and do the work ...

Consider the word “charismatic.” If someone called me charismatic, I will be incredibly flattered (and hugely surprised). But if I call myself charismatic, you will think I’m a jerk–and rightly so.

Do you use cheesy clichés, overblown superlatives, or breathless adjectives to describe yourself in your social media profiles and marketing materials? Do you write things about yourself you would ...