The new year is right around the corner. If you haven't done it recently, this is a good time to refresh your personal brand. For many of us, it's a time to reflect back, while planning forward. Why not take stock of your personal brand . . . while you're working on those New Year's …
15 Savvy Tips To Boost LinkedIn Profile Views
Whether you’re actively job hunting or just want people to take notice of you, bedazzle your LinkedIn profile. Build up your LinkedIn profile views and make it a traffic magnet. Besides being a social network, LinkedIn is a powerful search engine. People use the site to search for particular …
How to Write An Irresistible Executive Resume in 10 Steps
When was the last time you used your executive resume? When was the last time you even thought about it, or looked at it? If you’re like many executive job seekers, you’ve either never needed a resume to get noticed and land a job . . . or it’s been many years since you’ve needed one . . . or …
LinkedIn Do’s and Don’ts for Executive Job Search
LinkedIn do's and don'ts are a popular topic because so many executives understand how important it is to use LinkedIn well when they're job hunting. Unfortunately, despite their good intentions, many LinkedIn members don't use it well. They make lots of mistakes. Here's a sampling of some of …
How NOT To Build Your Network on LinkedIn
For both active job search and healthy career management when you're happily employed, it's wise to build and maintain your network on LinkedIn. There is debate among LinkedIn experts and others in the careers industry about whether or not to keep your number of LinkedIn connections to a …
7 LinkedIn Things You Should Do . . . But Probably Don’t
Whether you're using LinkedIn for executive job search . . . or career management . . . or building business, you should want to make it work optimally for you. I review lots of LinkedIn profiles every day, and see some things that still baffle me. People put things in their profiles that …
How Many LinkedIn Connections Are Good For Executive Job Search?
One of the LinkedIn things job-hunting executives most frequently want to know is how many LinkedIn connections they should have. They ask: Does it matter how many people I’m connected to on LinkedIn, and who should I connect with – everyone who asks? Opinions differ on whether it’s more …
How to Run a Confidential Job Search on LinkedIn
You're job-hunting and you need to keep it under wraps. But you know you need to use LinkedIn to help you land your next job. So how do you run a confidential job search on LinkedIn? Something like 95% of my executive job-seeking clients face the same dilemma. They’re still employed, but looking …
YIKES! My LinkedIn Profile is Missing!
When I Googled the phrase "linkedin profile is missing", more than half a billion results appeared. Clearly this is an issue impacting and worrying many LinkedIn users. If you’re like millions of savvy job seekers, you count on LinkedIn to help you: The last thing you can afford is having …
Should I Use #OpenToWork on LinkedIn?
Have you noticed the little green #OpenToWork frame around headshots on some LinkedIn profiles? Are you wondering whether to use it yourself? A time-honored job search strategy is not to “out” the fact in your LinkedIn profile that you're unemployed. Hiring professionals typically prefer people …