Get yourself into a regular routine (say, once a week or a few times a month) of posting status updates to your profile. Your updates sit at the top of your profile, so will likely be one of the first things people see when reviewing your profile. Your LinkedIn network is notified of your …
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LinkedIn Guide for Personal Branding and Executive Job Search
UPDATE !!! — For updated information on using LinkedIn for personal branding and executive job search, go to my 3-part series, starting here How to Use the New LinkedIn for Executive Personal Branding. — <><><><><><><><><><> — No …
How To Tap Into Hidden C-level Executive Jobs
How’s your executive job search working for you? If you’re spending all or most of your time responding to job board postings and waiting to be offered interviews, chances are, not much is happening. You’re conducting a RE-active job search, instead of a PRO-active one. This may be a …
Dealing with Social Networking Burnout
Grumblings about social networking overload have been growing among colleagues of mine. We're spreading ourselves too thin between LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and other online forums. We’re sometimes overwhelmed by the never-ending commitment to connect, update, and engage. The more social …
Executive Job Search: Using LinkedIn’s Company Follow
At the end of April, LinkedIn launched the new "Company Follow" feature, allowing you to stay current with the latest news from your target companies that have posted LinkedIn profiles. With nearly one million companies on LinkedIn, you're bound to find many of those on your target list. What's so …
Online Reputation Management: Do You Self-Google?
A new Pew Research Center report, Reputation Management and Social Media, indicates the following: 57% of adult internet users now use search engines to find information about themselves online, up from 47% in 2006. 46% of online adults have created their own profile on a social networking …
Give Twitter 15 Minutes a Day, Land Your Next Executive Job
Impossible you say? Not according to my friends and colleagues Susan Britton Whitcomb, Chandlee Bryan, and Deb Dib, the authors of "The Twitter Job Search Guide: Find a Job and Advance Your Career in Just 15 Minutes a Day". This book is a powerhouse of information and practical advice on …
14 Reasons I Won’t Follow You On Twitter [Revisited]
With a sudden flurry of tweets and blog comments for my original post of the same name over at my Executive Resume Branding blog, I decided to take a second look at my "won't follow" criteria four months later. Let me first say that these are not hard and fast rules that I even follow myself all …