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 …
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C-suite Executives and Social Media: Are You Resistant or Engaged?
A survey by Brandfog, a global social media and digital reputation consulting firm, indicates that social media engagement by companies' c-suite executives is more critical than ever: "Conversations taking place on Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Medium, YouTube, Instagram and other social channels do …
Your Personal Brand Online and the LinkedIn Privacy Dilemma
How private can you keep the changes you make to your LinkedIn profile? Here is one of the most frequently asked questions by my c-suite and senior executive clients who are in a confidential job search, and need to complete and/or update and brand their LinkedIn profiles: "How do I keep my …
Add Special Bullet Point Pizzazz to Your LinkedIn Profile
Want to use jazzier bullet points in your LinkedIn profile than the typical asterisk (*)? It seems that LinkedIn only allows you to use the basic characters that are on your keyboard. But you can try adding some pizzazz to your LinkedIn personal brand with special characters like …
2 LinkedIn Personal Branding Tips You Don’t Know
LinkedIn is undeniably the executive job-seeker's most important and powerful online personal branding tool. To improve my LinkedIn profile-building skills, I've just completed Reach Personal Branding's new Certified Social Branding Analyst program, which focuses squarely on LinkedIn …
Personal Branding: How to Brand Your LinkedIn Summary Section
[The following article was originally published for my Personal Branding Expert gig on Job-Hunt.org.] Powering your LinkedIn Summary section with personal branding helps you differentiate the value you offer over your competitors. It helps recruiters and hiring decision makers at the companies …
FREE Twitter Book From Job Search and Career Experts
Did you know that the vast majority of executive recruiters use social recruiting (including Twitter) to source and assess top talent? And that many employers tweet about their new product and service launches (great for researching your target companies and industry), other business …
The Biggest Executive Job Search and Personal Branding Mistake
What's the first step when you're about to dive into a job search? Create your resume, or update your existing one, so you can hit the job boards hard right away? Nope. The biggest mistake too many job seekers make from the get-go is skipping over the critical first step – identifying target …
How Strong is Your Executive Brand Online for Job Search?
Aside from your LinkedIn profile – if you have one – how many relevant search results will executive recruiters and hiring decision makers find when they Google "your name"? If you have no compelling search results supporting your executive brand, or your online footprint consists only of your …
‘Tis the Season to Land an Executive Job
How did it get to be the holiday season already? Before you know it, the new year will be here, and it will be time to resume your executive job search in earnest. You’ve put your search on hold until January, because everyone knows that no one lands anything but seasonal work in November or …