Quintessential Careers Career Branding & Marketing Resources:

• Building Your Brand: Tactics for Successful Career Branding. Discusses five branding tactics to take charge and build your personal brand.
• Career Branding: What's the Value of Your Personal Brand? A Quintessential Careers Quiz -- find the value of your personal brand image in maximizing your career brand for promotions and new jobs with this free quiz.
• Career Branding Tutorial -- designed to help you take your career to the next level... filled with (free) insights, tips, and tools to assist you in the creation or refinement of your career brand.
• Career Storytelling Tools for Job-Seekers -- where you will learn about the power of storytelling to propel your career to the next level, including free tips, tools, and more.
• A Dozen Things You Must Know About Communicating Your Career Brand. Learn strategies for communicating your brand.
• The Elevator Speech is the Swiss Army Knife of Job-Search Tools. Learn how to develop and use this key personal branding tool in your job-search. Includes samples.
• The Five-Step Plan for Creating Personal Mission Statements. Here's a five-step plan for creating a mission to enhance your career success.
• Is "The Breakfast of Champions" in Your Resume? How can job-seekers stand out from the crowd of other job-seekers competing for the same job? By using proven marketing and branding techniques.
• Marketing is How You Show Others How You Can Help Them, Including Selling Yourself for Jobs and Promotions. Shows you how job-hunting is all about using marketing skills, including selling yourself in job interviews for job offers.
• Using a Career Journal to Further Your Career Development and Empower Your Job-Search. Relates how whether you're a student searching for career direction or a job-seeker thinking of a job or career change, you can benefit from a journaling.
• Using Key Marketing Tools to Position Yourself on the Job Market. Discusses why job-seekers would be wise to take a few lessons from marketing and apply those rules to your job search.
• Using a Personal Mission Statement to Chart Your Career Course. This article takes job-seekers through the self-discovery process of creating your personal mission statement.
• Using a SWOT Analysis in Your Career Planning. Shows how a key strategic planning tool can be successfully applied to marketing yourself and advancing your career.

Other Career Marketing Resources:

Career and Personal Branding Books:

• Career Branding, Personal Branding, and Career Storytelling Books for Job-Seekers and Entrepreneurs. The Quintessential Careers team has personally selected the best career branding books to help propel your career.

Career and Personal Branding Websites:

• The Advantage of Personal Branding. Tips for creating a personal brand, by Jane Tabachnick on Webgrrls International..
• The Brand Called You. An article by business guru Tom Peters, published on FastCompany.com.
• Brandego.com. A personal branding and career protfolio site for for executives, senior managers and solopreneurs.
• Me Incorporated: Your Own Magnetic Brand. A nice overview of personal branding by Randall Frost on BrandChannel.com.
• Reach Communications Consultancy. A personal branding and performance coaching site that includes an innovative assessment, the 360°Reach Assessment, which helps you get the real story about how you are perceived by those around you.