Posting LinkedIn Updates Is an Easy, Fast Way to Stay Proactive on LinkedIn When I’m speaking with executive job seekers about the importance of using LinkedIn, one of their biggest concerns is finding the time. Most of them are employed, while job hunting under cover. They know job search …
3 Juicy Insider LinkedIn Personal Brand Tips
I’ve been a LinkedIn member and professional LinkedIn profile writer for more than 10 years. Working hard at it over the years, I’ve learned how to help my clients leverage their LinkedIn personal brand for job search. At the same time, I've learned how to use LinkedIn to build my own personal …
10+ Years on LinkedIn – Why It’s Still Indispensable To Me
How LinkedIn Remains Invaluable To Me . . . and All Executive Job Seekers I was noodling around on my LinkedIn Settings page when I noticed something at the top of the page. It said I’ve been a member since August 2007. That's a lot of years. My business is so different than it was then. I now …
The 3 Most Important LinkedIn Profile SEO Places for Relevant Keywords
How do executive recruiters and hiring decision makers at your target companies find good-fit candidates like you? In a word . . . keywords. They go to the LinkedIn search engine and type in various relevant keywords and phrases that match the kinds of candidates they’re seeking. Get a handle on …
Use LinkedIn Wisely in Your Executive Job Search
I would guess that the majority of executives in job search, or planning one, know that they need a LinkedIn profile. Too many stop there. They may fill in a little information in their profile, but they rarely do much else. And, it may have been 10 years ago since they last revisited their …
FREE eBook on Smart Personal Branding with LinkedIn
In 2009 I wrote a little ebook for Job-Hunt.org on using LinkedIn for personal branding and executive job search. I did a minor update in 2010. Not too much had changed. With LinkedIn's newest 2017 User Interface, I needed to do a major revamp of the ebook. The new title is “Smart Personal …
5 Nifty LinkedIn Hacks That Make Executive Job Search Easier
If you’re actively in a job-hunt, you know that it’s hard and takes a lot of time. I suspect that if you knew about ways to make it easier, and save time doing the job search things you need to do, you’d grab on to them. When I go through the annual re-certification process for …
How To Exploit the New LinkedIn for Best SEO
Take Advantage of the New LinkedIn User Interface To Draw More People To Your Profile Have you taken a close look at what's happened to the very top section of your LinkedIn profile, with the latest User Interface? If you're actively searching for executive jobs, you need to pay attention, and …
The Two Worst LinkedIn Profile Headline Mistakes
In our first consultation, a new client of mine asked me whether the LinkedIn professional headline a writer had created for him was a good one. This executive job seeker had been an IT Project Management Consultant for 20 years. His titles as a consultant had ranged from Project/Program Manager …
How To Get a Direct, Secret Line to Executive Recruiters on LinkedIn
LinkedIn’s Open Candidates feature allows you to share the specifics of your career goals – types of companies, roles you're seeking, etc. – with executive recruiters who may be able to help you meet those goals. LinkedIn explains Open Candidates in the Help pages: "Once you opt to share your …