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Dear College Grad, About That Resume and Cover Letter …

Ishmael's Corner

Don’t follow the Resume 101 Handbook. Do not follow the Resume 101 Handbook. In other words, don’t tell me you’re creative. Show me a part of you that leads me to conclude that you’re creative. Check out the blog posts. You’re now ready to land that first job. Let me say this again because it’s so damn important.

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Making a Cover Letter Count

The Hoffman Agency

To quote Lou Hoffman ; ‘ Don’t follow the Resume 101 Handbook. Do not follow the Resume 101 Handbook.’. If you were part of a new business process and saw the strategic and creative platforms being developed, then say so — and say you’d like to experience more. Let me say this again because it’s so damn important. What matters

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Three FTC Social Media Disclosures You Should Know

5W PR

While this may seem to take away from the authenticity of the brand, social media contests are great ways to reach new audiences and still allow social media users to add their own creative approach to the content they share as a form of entry. .

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The Snowball Effect: How Your Company Culture Affects Your Customer Service and Informs Your Communications Strategy

Barokas

It’s how the environment fosters and promotes growth, creativity and new ideas. No onboarding, policies, rules or handbooks can supercede the importance of employees living the company’s values from within. . It goes beyond perks like free snacks or quarterly company outings. Take Costco as an example of exceptional culture.

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Top 3 Things to Resolve Before a Crisis Strikes

Beyond PR

The key to remember is that there’s no universal crisis handbook you can order and put on your shelf. Her team leads social media, PR, creative and blogging for the brand. If managed especially well, few outside your crisis response team will even know something happened.

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#19: Building a framework for reputation management

NewsWhip

Or has it moved from Twitter to Facebook, or from Twitter to someone’s blog, or whatever it might be? So not too many companies might have a handbook on how to manage their operations or suppliers or whatever during a pandemic, it’s a once-in-a-century event. Is it isolated in one community or one space or one network?

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WaddsCon: February wrap-up, March topics and speakers

Stephen Waddington

Each of the speakers has kindly responded to the questions that we didn’t cover in the blog post below. Then you should get out the company handbook or whatever holds the mission statements and values and again use any direct or indirect channel, to ask how leaders can better demonstrate company values and behaviours.

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