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 …
Executive Job Search
Smart Executive Job Interview Techniques from the Experts
For the past 10 years, I've been fortunate to count myself among Job-Hunt.org's many job search and career experts, as the top-rated, trusted career site's Personal Branding Expert and most recently, its Personal Branding with LinkedIn Expert. Two Job-Hunt experts I've come to know, …
How Your Social Media Use Can Sabotage Your Executive Job Search
How you use social media and your online presence in general matter in executive job search. Hiring decision makers and executive recruiters are "social recruiting". They use social media platforms to identify potential candidates and find information about them. In 2016, …
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 …
Oh, How the New LinkedIn Has Changed!
I just completed updating my 3 executive job search ebooks. Most of the strategies I recommend in them haven’t changed much over the past year but, as I got into LinkedIn particulars, I quickly realized that my content updates were going to take a lot longer than I …
Executive Job Search Advice From the Experts
I'm very flattered and grateful to be included among such heavy hitters in Career Sherpa's (Hannah Morgan) "50+ Best Websites For Job Search 2017". WOW! What a valuable resource this list is! Hannah is a nationally recognized author and speaker on all things job search, with a weekly …
How to Customize LinkedIn Invitations to Connect
When you’re proactively job-hunting, you need to keep a keen eye towards expanding your LinkedIn network to include people who can help you meet your career goals. Considering that you may not know many of these people, you need to do your best to compel them to want to connect with you. Without a …