Executive recruiters and hiring decision makers at your target companies search online using relevant keywords to locate good-fit candidates. Your LinkedIn profile offers several choice locations to insert the right keywords to help elevate your search rankings – or Search Engine Optimization (SEO) …
Personal Branding and Executive Job Search Book — Second Edition
I've just completed the second edition of my ebook, 23 Ways You Sabotage Your Executive Job Search and How Your Brand Will Help You Land . . . A practical guide to executive branding, marketing your ROI value and navigating the new world of job search. Updates to the content reflect the …
Your Email Signature: Another Personal Branding Tool
I estimate that more than half of the emails I receive from executive job seekers have only one line in their email signatures . . . their name. Sometimes their signature is the default they use in doing business through their employers, which may not be appropriate to use in their job …
10 Brand-Diluting Phrases That Weaken Your LinkedIn Profile
Many of us resist change. We'd like some things to work the same way forever. It's so much easier than having to learn new ways of doing things. If you're in an executive job search for the first time in, say, 5 years or so, you've found that it doesn't work the same way as the last time …
Top 10 Personal Branding and Executive Job Search Blog Posts of the Year
I always enjoy looking back at my blog posts from the past year, to assess which topics best hit home with readers. Last year, posts about using LinkedIn for executive job search were the most popular, showing up 4 times in my list of 10 best below. Most of these were also my favorites to write. …
New Kindle Book: 101 Top Holiday Job Search Tips from Job-Hunt Experts
Are you in a job search, or about to be, and thinking that the end of the year is the worst time to land a job? Do you figure everyone kicks back for the holidays . . . companies don’t hire until the New Year . . . so it’s not even worth the effort? Here are some statistics from the U.S. …
3 Social Media Ways to Build Your Executive Job Search Network
Networking has always been the best way to land an executive job. Along with maintaining strong ties to your network throughout your career, when you're in active job search mode, you'll need to cast a far-reaching net to encompass new, targeted connections. Step one in planning your job search …
Social Recruiting and Your Executive Job Search
Are you a senior-level executive still hesitating to embrace social networking for your job search and healthy career management? Did you know that more than 90% of employers will use social networks and social media to find talent in 2012? That's what Jobvite, a leading recruitment platform …
LinkedIn’s Free Executive Job Search Resources
Are you new to LinkedIn and having a hard time figuring out what to do with it? The folks at LinkedIn have put together several excellent tools to help you. Go to the Learning Center for an overview, site features and user guides. To build your profile, begin with the New User Starter …
5 Executive Job Search Tactics You Need To Try
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