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Joseph Liu

(He/Him)
London
As seen in: Career Relaunch®, Forbes, Yahoo Life, HuffPost, Nature, Chicago Tribune, Fast Company, MDPI, Pew Research Center, Substack, ACM - Association for Computing Machinery, Glassdoor Blog and
Covers:  Career Change, Personal Branding, Presentation Skills, Self-Employment
Doesn't Cover: Career advice for entry-level professionals or recent college grads. I focus on mid to senior level professionals.
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Manage toxic emotions that hold you back from changing careers

Manage toxic emotions that hold you back from changing careers

Fast Company — The pandemic has caused many professionals to rethink their careers and lives, leading to the largest increase in people quitting their jobs on record, now coined the "Great Resignation." The advent of more flexible working arrangements combined with people's newfound desire to make space for other priorities like health, family, and well-being have driven them to seek out jobs that enable them to serve these priorities and do more fulfilling work.
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Do these 7 things before your last day at work

Do these 7 things before your last day at work

Fast Company — So you've decided the time has come to move onto greener pastures at work. You've told your manager you're resigning and handed in your official notice to HR. Now that you're heading out the door soon, you're thinking you can coast along until your last day. Not so quick.
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Recruiters Share 9 Mistakes Job Seekers Are Making Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

Recruiters Share 9 Mistakes Job Seekers Are Making Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

Forbes — Beyond the enormous human toll coronavirus has had over the past few weeks, the pandemic has also had a significant impact on people's careers. Temporary furloughs, rescinded job offers, hiring freezes, and layoffs have created a tremendous amount of upheaval across all industries and roles.
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Recruiters Share 9 Mistakes Job Seekers Are Making Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

Recruiters Share 9 Mistakes Job Seekers Are Making Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

Forbes — Beyond the enormous human toll coronavirus has had over the past few weeks, the pandemic has also had a significant impact on people's careers. Temporary furloughs, rescinded job offers, hiring freezes, and layoffs have created a tremendous amount of upheaval across all industries and roles.
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9 steps to take right now if you've been laid off

9 steps to take right now if you've been laid off

Fast Company — A few weeks ago, everything may have felt stable in your career. Now, with the coronavirus outbreak continuing to have a tremendous human and economic impact, you've suddenly been given the unfortunate news: You're getting laid off. Suddenly, you're left asking yourself, "Now what?"
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12 Tips For Making Your Virtual Meetings More Professional

12 Tips For Making Your Virtual Meetings More Professional

Forbes — More employees are working from home, more meetings are conducted online, and more candidates are interviewing via webcam. When you're in a virtual meeting with a colleague, hiring manager, or client through a conferencing platform like Skype, Zoom, Teams, or Slack, that virtual environment becomes part of your personal brand.
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10 Questions Recruiters Love Asking Candidates-And How To Answer Them

10 Questions Recruiters Love Asking Candidates-And How To Answer Them

Forbes — When it comes to finding a job, candidates too often turn to applying through online job boards, LinkedIn, or company job portals. While online applications are typically straight forward and easily accessible, they also result in huge candidate pools that makes it hard to stand out.
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Why longer responses to "So, tell me about yourself" are better

Why longer responses to "So, tell me about yourself" are better

Fast Company — When it comes to first-round job interviews, you'll probably answer some version of the question, "So, tell me about yourself." Experienced hiring managers love asking this question. After all, it allows them to assess your communication skills, hear your narrative about the highlights of your career, and lay the foundation for follow-up questions.
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10 LinkedIn Background Photo Ideas To Make Your Profile Stand Out

10 LinkedIn Background Photo Ideas To Make Your Profile Stand Out

Forbes — Having a solid LinkedIn profile is one way to increase your visibility and open up more professional opportunities for yourself. People often invest most their efforts into capturing their career accomplishments in the "Experience" section. Unfortunately, the profile picture and background header photo are often an afterthought.
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7 Signs Your Side Hustle Could Turn Into Your Full-Time Job

7 Signs Your Side Hustle Could Turn Into Your Full-Time Job

Forbes — Back in 2013, I was facing a moment of truth in my career, deciding whether to leave my full-time job to fully devote myself to my side-business. During the preceding year, I'd begun doing career consulting and speaking on the side, and found the work I was doing for clients and audiences to be more meaningful and fulfilling than my full-time day job.
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4 Simple Ways To Increase Your Professional Visibility

4 Simple Ways To Increase Your Professional Visibility

Forbes — One reason why certain brands are so top-of-mind is that they seem to be everywhere. It's hard to walk down the street without seeing Amazon boxes being unloaded from shipping trucks. Or to watch a movie without seeing an Apple product featured. Or to log onto any browser and not feel Google's presence.
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How I Felt After Quitting My Corporate Job To Run My Own Business

How I Felt After Quitting My Corporate Job To Run My Own Business

Forbes — My reflections on the true realities of making the shift from working for a large Fortune 500 company to working for myself.
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4 Beliefs to Drop When Changing Careers - Glassdoor Blog (UK)

4 Beliefs to Drop When Changing Careers - Glassdoor Blog (UK)

glassdoor.co.uk — My career has not followed a linear path. I left medical school after two weeks to instead pursue a marketing career, walking away from years of educational investment. A few years later, I moved from San Francisco to London, creating in a detour in my career.
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Your Career Happiness Might Hinge On How You Define This Word

Your Career Happiness Might Hinge On How You Define This Word

Fast Company — It wasn't until my father passed away five years ago that I took a hard look at my corporate career track and decided to change course. I realized that autonomy, flexibility, and spending quality time with people I love mattered more to me than I'd earlier imagined.
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My Battle-Tested Secret To Handling Career Rejection

My Battle-Tested Secret To Handling Career Rejection

Fast Company — No one likes rejection. As a career coach, I talk to people just about every day who are struggling with professional setbacks. Job opportunities fizzle out. Bosses shut down great ideas. Investors pass up promising startups. For me it's the downward plummets, rather than the low-points themselves, that I find most exhausting.
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3 Self-Limiting Beliefs I Had To Shake Before Becoming My Own Boss

3 Self-Limiting Beliefs I Had To Shake Before Becoming My Own Boss

Fast Company — When I decided to start my own business three years ago, I thought the hardest part would be making ends meet or finding clients-the tactical, business-building stuff. I knew it wouldn't be easy, but after a 10-year marketing career in the U.S. and U.K.
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I Made Three Big Career Changes In A Row-Here's What I Learned Each Time

I Made Three Big Career Changes In A Row-Here's What I Learned Each Time

Fast Company — When you switch careers, it often feels like starting over. Sure, you're still taking what you've learned in another field and finding fresh ways to apply it, but it always takes hitting the "reset" button-now you're a novice again, navigating unfamiliar terrain.
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5 Better Ways to Define Wealth Than Your Bank Account

5 Better Ways to Define Wealth Than Your Bank Account

The Muse — Imagine if someone stopped you on the street and asked if you considered yourself to be wealthy. (OK, your first instinct would probably be to just keep walking.) But say you then started reflecting on it. I'd bet the first things that come to mind are income, financial assets, or material possessions.
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4 Ways Self-employment Changed How I Define 'Wealth'

4 Ways Self-employment Changed How I Define 'Wealth'

HuffPost — When I left my last corporate job behind two years ago to start my own business, it marked the end of my 10-year stint as an international brand marketer managing leading brands at blue-chip consumer goods companies in the U.S. and UK.
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