Before first speaking with a prospective client, a c-level executive in commercial real estate business development, I searched LinkedIn to see if he had a complete profile. And I Googled his name to see how many search results associated with him were on the first few pages. This is my standard …
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 …
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 …
LinkedIn: Best Tactic for Undercover Executive Job Search
Are you job hunting now or planning a search in the near future, but afraid your employer will find out, so you’re hunting on the sly? Most of my clients are employed c-suite executives who either see signs of a possible layoff, or have become dissatisfied with their jobs and want to test the …
10 Ways to Build Your Personal Brand Online Without a Blog
A new client of mine understood that he needed to pump up his online presence. A Google search for his name yielded a dismal number of relevant results, plus he had a common name and the little that was out there about him was lost in a sea of same-named people. To win at executive job search in …
Does Your Online Identity Scream “Hire Me”?
Think your online presence, or lack of it, doesn’t factor much into executive hiring decision-making? Think again. Given two equal candidates, in terms of skill sets, education, work history, and all around good fit for the job, recruiters and hiring professionals are likely to choose the one with …
Stalled Executive Job Search? Get Busy on LinkedIn and Twitter
A favorite client of mine "Tom", who is a highly accomplished COO in life sciences, told me the other day that, after two months of actively searching, he had not gotten one interview. He and I had collaborated on defining his personal brand and creating a suite of career marketing documents – …
2010 Top 10 Executive Personal Branding and Job Search Trends
Things have changed in the world of work and executive job search. Tried and true methods still apply, but the impact of the Internet and our recovering job market require building a different kind of job search strategy and becoming much more proactive. In a nutshell, what you need to do …
Executive Personal Branding and Your LinkedIn Profile FREE e-Book
Get my FREE e-book here, Smart Personal Branding with LinkedIn for Executive Job Search. If you're a top-level executive, whether or not you're actively job-hunting, you need to have a strong, branded LinkedIn profile, just to keep pace with the millions of other corporate leaders who …
4 Quick Online Personal Brand-Building Strategies for Executive Job Search
So many senior-level executives I talk with have no idea that most recruiters and hiring decision makers are searching online to source and vet candidates, before deciding whether to talk with them. If you're invisible online, you may not exist to them. Anyone who is job-hunting needs to have …