Last year I did a Q&A with a blogging and Twitter friend, Jeff Lipschultz (@JLipschultz on Twitter), founding partner of A-List Solutions, a premier recruiting firm in Dallas-Fort Worth. He has hired engineers, IT and finance professionals, sales reps, technicians, Six Sigma and Lean experts, …
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FREE E-book: Executive Branding and LinkedIn Profiles
I've just revised and updated my free e-book, "Smart Personal Branding with LinkedIn: How to use LinkedIn to build your personal brand and land a new job faster!" No doubt about it, if you're an executive job seeker, especially at the c-level or senior level, you must have an on-brand, keyword-rich …
How To Tap Into Hidden C-level Executive Jobs
How’s your executive job search working for you? If you’re spending all or most of your time responding to job board postings and waiting to be offered interviews, chances are, not much is happening. You’re conducting a RE-active job search, instead of a PRO-active one. This may be a …
Executive Job Search: Using LinkedIn’s Company Follow
At the end of April, LinkedIn launched the new "Company Follow" feature, allowing you to stay current with the latest news from your target companies that have posted LinkedIn profiles. With nearly one million companies on LinkedIn, you're bound to find many of those on your target list. What's so …
Executive Branding and the New Rules of C-level Job Search
Have you been thrust into an executive job search and finding that things have changed drastically since the last time you looked for a gig, even if it was only a few years ago? Suddenly the game plan looks and feels completely different, and no one told you about it. You don’t know what you need …
10 Ways I Use Twitter to Build My Personal Brand
Twitter is one of my favorite brand communications tools. The strategies I use are ones I advise my c-level executive clients will also work for their job-hunting and career management efforts. Here are 10 ways Twitter helps me communicate and build my personal brand: 1. My Twitter bio contains …
Don’t Take a Summer Vacation From Executive Job Search
Although you may think it's perfectly fine to take the Summer off, because you mistakenly assume no one is hiring, you may be missing out on the perfect time to position yourself for your next gig, before competition spikes with the mad rush in the Fall. Now is the time to get your foot in the …
How to Get the Best LinkedIn Recommendations
Why are LinkedIn recommendations so important? The true measure of your executive brand and promise of value to future employers is reflected in what those who know your work the best – co-workers, peers, top management, team members, customers, etc. – have to say about you. Executive recruiters …
Maximize Your Executive Brand Online with the 6 P’s
You've defined your brand and created your career marketing materials – executive resume, career biography and other collaterals – designed to resonate with your target audience. Maybe you get that, in today’s executive job search, you're in a sales and marketing campaign to promote your company of …
Cover Letter Debate: Are They Necessary in Executive Job Search?
Some of my fellow careers industry professionals dismiss cover letters as an ineffective marketing tool. I don’t agree. Although there are recruiters and hiring decision makers who will skip right over your cover letters, others read them religiously and judge candidates by them as strongly as they …