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	from Alison Doyle Your professional brand is the online image that shows prospective employers who you are and what you can do. It's the information that you want hiring managers, recruiters, and career contacts to find when they look for information about you online. What you include in your networking profiles (on LinkedIn and Facebook, for example) and what you include in your blog and/or web sites all are part of your brand.
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