Preparation is critical before any executive job interview. Entering the interview armed with knowledge not only differentiates you as a more informed and potentially valuable candidate, it will help ease you through this often most stressful aspect of executive job search. Another big bonus: …
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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 …
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, …
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 Use Twitter for Personal Branding and Executive Job Search, Part 2
Twitter can help you connect with the right people, to land a great-fit executive job. In Part 1 of this 2-part series, I covered: The value of Twitter for executive job search, How to get started, How to follow the right Twitter folks, and How to build up your followers. In Part …
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 …
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 …