Do you know how beneficial having a blog in job search can be? Having your own blog in job search will help you build your personal brand and differentiate the value you offer as a candidate . . . in a way that almost nothing else can top. An added bonus . . . you can also make money with your …
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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 …
Social Proof: Where Online Presence Meets Personal Branding
In executive job search, social media and online presence matter. Are you an executive job seeker who resists having an online presence? Maybe you’re concerned about privacy issues. Maybe you just don't want to put information about yourself "out there". Unfortunately, the days when you could hide …
10 Best Posts to Get Your Executive Job Search in Gear
At this writing, it's the beginning of a new year . . . a time when executive job search is on many people's minds. But this roundup of posts are well worth reading whatever time of year you come across them . . . as you think about diving into job search, . . . as you begin an actual …
Online Presence and Personal Brand Management: 5 Things to Remember
Your online presence, or lack of it, matters in executive job search. It matters for most every job seeker, at any professional level − from entry level to c-suite executive. Given two equal candidates, in terms of skill sets, education, work history, and all around good fit for the job, …
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 …
How to Use Twitter for Personal Branding and Executive Job Search, Part 1
In my experience, executive job seekers shy away from Twitter for many reasons, most of which are misconceptions. Do any of the following describe your resistance to using Twitter? You think it's not worth the effort. You think it's all about posting photos showing what you had for dinner, …
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 …