Index

A

“Above My Pay Grade” space

Adaptation; to change

Adaptive professional brand (APB); aspirational elements, including; components of; crafting; credibility of, building; long version of your story; mission category; offering category; other elements; outlining; presentation category; short version of your story; and social media; tagline; workshopping

Albarracin, D.

Alternating the venue method, for turning failure into success

American job market

American Psychological Association

APB, See Adaptive professional brand (APB)

Applicant-to-job ratio

Archer, S.

Aspirational elements, including in APB

Attention schedule

Authenticity, and social media

B

Benefits package

Berg, H. S.

Bias, confirmation

Blog discussions, participating in

Brand leveraging, and social media

Brand-name recognition

Brand slogan, See Tagline

Brand statement

Brands, See also Adaptive professional brand (APB); corporate; defined; personal; professional

Brechan, I.

Brown, T.

Business-model transformation

C

Career ownership

Career path, taking ownership of

Caterpillar, and globalized workforce

Centerpiece skills; and the Fittest

Change: accepting; adaptation to; and the Fittest; sustaining; working with/influencing

Changing for Good (Prochaska)

Cisco, and globalized workforce

CNN.com

College graduates, and changing job market

Competitive differentiation; defined; goal of

Complacency, and sustaining change

Computerworld.com

Confidence

Confirmation bias

Conscious gratitude

Contract workers

Contrarian lines of questioning

Coping cards

Corporate brands

Counterproductive behaviors: managing; problem solving

Crises, seeing as insurmountable

Cultivation of skills; and adaptive professional brand (APB); centerpiece skill; counterproductive behaviors, managing; defined; differentiating skills; and the Finch Effect; niche exceptionalism; skill upgrades, brainstorming

D

Daga, V.

Darwin, C.

Decisive action, taking

Delivering on promises

Descriptors

Desmond, A.

Development skepticism

Differentiating skills; skill scorecard; upgrading

Differentiation, competitive

Digital presentation

Distraction-proof workspace

Dougherty, C.

Dovidio, J.

Doyle, A.

E

E-mail addiction, ending

Eagly, A. H.

Economic recovery

eLance.com

Emmons, R. A.

Entrepreneurial energy: building your organization using; and failure; and the Fittest; harnessing; to help meet role requirements; and job seekers; on-the-side entrepreneurial endeavors, benefits of; and productivity; using inside your organization; using outside your organization; value of; and your vocational comfort zone

Entrepreneurial, perception of term

Entrepreneurs: outsourcing by; requirements of

Expertise, sharing on social media

F

F-word, See Failure

Facebook; consistently using the same name; contact lists; content, deleting; content sharing; as digital space to promote conversation; fifteen-minute version of your professional story; filtering content; and the Fittest; “liking” something on; pictures, deleting; profile, cleaning up; profile content, reviewing; profile, filling out; profile page; profile picture; recommendations feature; removing a tag; status updates; tagline; two-minute version of your professional story; uploading pictures; wall, filtering; wall posts, removing; and your story

Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Haydon)

Failure: alternating the venue method; consequences of; embarrassment/anger about; and entrepreneurial energy; persistence method; recovering from; reworking strategies method; self-limiting beliefs about; starting over method; turning into success

Fifteen-minute story

Finch Effect; adaptation to change; defined; and evolution; strategies; understanding

Finches: adaptation of; Darwin's samples; elements of; niche exceptionalism; species; variations in

Fittest: and adaptation; adaptive professional brand (APB); asking questions; centerpiece skill; and change; and entrepreneurial energy; Facebook; helping others in their vocational journey; motivation to be a member of; online presence; personal definitions of success; sharing a professional story; and social media; tagline

FitzRoy, Robert

Follow-through problems

FourSquare

Frederickson, B.

Free Agent Nation (Pink)

Freelancer.com

Freelancers; and gig mindset

Full-time employees: cost of; kept in key positions; nontraditional workers replacing

G

Gates, B.

GE, and globalized workforce

Gig economy, rise of

Gig employment, objective of

Gig mindset; adopting; defined

Gigs, use of term

Goals, replacing to-dos with

“Golden Circle” theory (Sinek)

Google+

Gratitude

Great Depression (1930s)

H

Habits, getting feedback on

Hart, W.

Haydon, J.

Henslow, J. S.

Hewson, M. A.

Hilsenrath, J.

HMS Beagle

Hope, keeping alive

Housing bubble burst

Hummer, discontinuation of

I

In-person interview

Independent contractors

Industry experts, reaching out to

Industry-relevant fairs/shows/exhibits, attending

Industry-relevant network, joining

InsightSquared

Interests, sharing on social media

Internal voice, See Self-talk

J

Job loss, example of

Job market: changes to; contractor-based; crises; and job expectations; self-questions

Job mobility

Journey, See also Professional evolution; importance of; of professional evolution

Judson, B.

K

Kaka, N.

Kendall, K.

L

Lantham, G. P.

Leading a trend, downside of

Lee, F.

Lifestyle habits

Lindberg, M. J.

LinkedIn; consistently using the same name; contact lists; content sharing; as digital space to promote conversation; introduction, requesting; joining groups; profile; profile, filling out; profile picture; recommendations, soliciting; status updates; Summary section; unprofessional content, weeding out

Locke, E.

Locke, E. A.

Lost drive

Lynda.com

M

Machlis, S.

Matuson, R. C.

Matyszczyk, C.

Mayo Clinic

McCullough, M. E.

McMillian, G.

Merrill, L.

Mission category, adaptive professional brand (APB)

Mission-focused tagline

Monitoring self-talk

Moore, J.

MySpace

N

National unemployment rate

Negative self-talk

Niche exceptionalism

Nine-to-five job market: demise of; replacement by gig employment; upward climb of

Nontraditional workers

O

Offering category, adaptive professional brand (APB)

On the Origin of Species (Darwin)

On-the-side entrepreneurial endeavors, benefits of

Online alias

Online profiles, and projection of value proposition

“Organization Man” era

Outlining, adaptive professional brand (APB)

Outsourcing; by entrepreneurs; to the global market; by small businesses; Web-based services

Overhead: and outsourcing; and part-time workers

Ownership: for how we live; of your career

P

Park, N.

Part-time workers; increase in use of

Persistence method, for turning failure into success

Personal brands

Personal success, defining

Personality-focused tagline

Perspective

Peterson, C.

Petrecca, L.

Physical presentation

Pink, D.

Positive attitude

Presentation category, adaptive professional brand (APB)

Prince (singing artist)

Problem-solving counterproductive tendencies

Prochaska, J. O.

Procrastination

Productivity: and entrepreneurial energy; skills, building; to-dos, replacing with goals

Professional brands

Professional evolution: challenges of; maintaining balance between comfort and discomfort; for ourselves and others; and perspective; perspective; resilience; self-care; and skill development; time management

Professional story

Professional value, identifying

Professionals, types of

Profile rebranding, social media

Psychological resilience; building up

Q

Questions, asking

R

Recession

Reisinger, D.

Resilience: building; change, accepting; decisive action, taking; defined; and gratitude; hope, keeping alive; moving toward your goals; and professional evolution; psychological, building up; seeing crises as insurmountable, avoiding; self-discovery, finding opportunities for; and skill development; tactics

Responsibility for your career

Reworking strategies method, for turning failure into success

Right questions: characteristics of; examples of; mulling over; reframing wrong questions to

Role-focused tagline

S

Self-care; defined; eating for energy; exercising the mind and the body; as foundational part of career strategy; habits; inadequate; rest/relaxation/recuperation; sleep; and stress

Self-deception

Self-discovery, finding opportunities

Self-talk; coping cards; monitoring/adjusting; negative

Seligman, M.E.P.

Sinek, S.

Skill development: approach to; confidence; implementing plans for; and professional evolution; and resilience

Skill upgrades: brainstorming; categories

Skills, cultivating

Small businesses, outsourcing by

Smith, N. F.

Social media; and adaptive professional brand (APB); asking questions of your network; and brand leveraging; building goodwill/connections via; communications; contact lists; features of; online alias; profile rebranding; profiles; quality over quantity; relationships, maintaining; relevance of; rewards returned by; sharing expertise; sharing interests; and target market; time-spent-to-rewards-gained ratio; transfer of knowledge; unofficial mentorship

Social networks, nurturing

Starting over method, for turning failure into success

Stephens, J. P.

Stossel, J.

Strategies, Finch Effect

Stress, and self-care

Success: defining/engendering through achievable goals; redefining

Survival of the fittest; and the American job market; and contractor-based global market; Finch Effect strategies; finches' ability to adapt; gig economy, rise of; outsourcing; personal success, crafting your definition of; professionals, types of; and slow recovery from recession; vocational Darwinism

Sustaining change: and complacency; in perspective and strategy

T

Tagline; for the Fittest; parameters for developing; and target market; using on Facebook; using on Twitter

Target market; and taglines

Taylor, K.

Temporary workers

TheLifeUncommon.net

Time management; distraction-proof workspace; e-mail addiction, ending

Tjan, A. K.

To-dos, replacing with goals

TweetDeck

Twitter; archiving of feed; background image; connections, making; consistently using the same name; contact lists; as digital space to promote conversation; lack of boundaries; notifications, setting up; profile picture; tagline; unprofessional content, weeding out

Two-minute story

U

Upgrading skills

Urquhart, M. A.

U.S. Census Bureau

V

V-Teams

Value-focused tagline

Value proposition; defined

Van Grove, J.

Variations

Vocational comfort zone

Vocational Darwinism

Vocational transformation, unexpected opportunity of

W

Wadhwa, V.

Walaszek, S.

Wang, J.

Web-based services, outsourcing

Web designer, hiring

Website: creating; and projection of value proposition

WebTV

Weight Watchers

Wessel, D.

Whyte, W. H.

Williams, J. R.

Willis, P.

Woolhouse, M.

Work habits

Work/life balance

Wright, J. H.

Wrong questions: characteristics of; reframing to right questions

Y

Your professional story: long version; short version

Z

Zuckerberg, M.

Zweig, J.