The Career Narratives Blog

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For mid and senior-level MBAs moving up and into roles with greater responsibility and impact.

Be Memorable and Control Your Narrative in Job Interviews interviewing personal branding

If you’ve ever been involved in recruiting for your company, you’ve probably run into this problem. You get to the end of a long day or week of interviews, and all of the people you’ve met start to blend together. Then a colleague mentions the name of someone you both...

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The Ultimate Zoom Setup for Direct Eye Contact and Less Zoom Fatigue personal branding resources

I’ve explained how my Zoom setup has evolved, from reasonably good to what I — and many of the people I Zoom with — consider to be pretty great. 

The motivation for my current (or let’s call it my ultimate) Zoom setup was to find a better way to approximate eye...

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How to Make Eye Contact on Zoom for Better Rapport and Less Fatigue personal branding resources

Do you ever feel like you aren’t connecting with someone on Zoom? And do you feel completely worn out after just a few Zoom meetings? Or even one?

As a coach whose practice has transformed from primarily in-person sessions to almost entirely virtual, I’m on Zoom for hours at a time....

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Why Being a Generalist is Limiting Your Career career strategy personal branding

One of the toughest challenges I face with the people I coach is convincing them to focus their positioning in the market, even just a little. When I talk about positioning, I’m referring to a phrase or sentence you might use to describe what you do, who you do it for, and what the benefit...

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