social media Archives - Executive Career Brand™ https://executivecareerbrand.com/tag/social-media/ Executive Job Search - Personal Branding, Executive Resumes, LinkedIn Profiles, Biographies, etc. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:09:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://executivecareerbrand.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/cropped-GREAT-FIT-Gig-32x32.jpg social media Archives - Executive Career Brand™ https://executivecareerbrand.com/tag/social-media/ 32 32 5 Deadly LinkedIn Mistakes https://executivecareerbrand.com/5-deadly-linkedin-mistakes/ https://executivecareerbrand.com/5-deadly-linkedin-mistakes/#comments Tue, 28 May 2024 10:06:00 +0000 https://executivecareerbrand.com/?p=5553 Several years ago I published a post about deadly LinkedIn mistakes that became very popular – 29 Biggest LinkedIn Mistakes. The post included some of the worst things executives in job search do, or neglect to do, on LinkedIn. In revisiting and updating that post, I’ve compiled here what I consider to be the 5 […]

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]]> https://executivecareerbrand.com/5-deadly-linkedin-mistakes/feed/ 4 Why You Need to Self-Google Once a Week in Job Search https://executivecareerbrand.com/why-you-need-to-self-google-once-a-week/ https://executivecareerbrand.com/why-you-need-to-self-google-once-a-week/#comments Wed, 08 Mar 2023 09:45:00 +0000 https://executivecareerbrand.com/?p=5075 Why do you need to self-Google regularly, whether or not you’re job hunting? To know what people who Google “your name” will find out about you. And to safeguard your online reputation and personal brand. Social recruiting is the norm for executive job search Before we hire just about anyone, most of us will Google […]

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]]> https://executivecareerbrand.com/why-you-need-to-self-google-once-a-week/feed/ 10 Social Media Snark and Job Search: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People https://executivecareerbrand.com/how-to-lose-friends-and-alienate-people-with-social-media/ https://executivecareerbrand.com/how-to-lose-friends-and-alienate-people-with-social-media/#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2022 09:49:00 +0000 https://executivecareerbrand.com/?p=1658 I originally posted the first part of this article in 2010 and I’ve added to it over the years. Social media snark has become much more pronounced over the years, so the earlier content I left in may seem tame. Even so, a lot of what happened to me back then still seems extreme. [With […]

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]]> Job Search Email Mistakes: Careless Email Address and Subject Line https://executivecareerbrand.com/executive-job-search-email-mistakes-careless-email-address-and-subject-line/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://executivecareerbrand.com/?p=5739 Think about this as you’re composing and sending out job search email. In your job search email, you’re reaching out to: The first things they will notice in their email inbox are your email address and the subject line of your email message. Above all, you don’t want your email message to land in spam […]

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]]> How to Balance Personal Branding With Personal SEO https://executivecareerbrand.com/how-to-balance-personal-branding-with-personal-seo/ Thu, 06 May 2021 10:56:00 +0000 https://executivecareerbrand.com/?p=5769 Both personal branding and personal SEO are critical components in successful executive job search today . . . and they go hand in hand. But many people don’t know how to strike the right balance between them, as they write their job search marketing documents and online profiles – executive resume, biography, LinkedIn profile, etc. […]

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]]> Twitter Executive Branding Strategy: The Beauty of a Retweet https://executivecareerbrand.com/twitter-executive-branding-strategy-the-beauty-of-a-retweet/ https://executivecareerbrand.com/twitter-executive-branding-strategy-the-beauty-of-a-retweet/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2021 11:50:00 +0000 https://executivecareerbrand.com/?p=2345 Think you don’t have time to come up with great tweets? How you can leverage the value of Twitter with very little time and effort.

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]]> https://executivecareerbrand.com/twitter-executive-branding-strategy-the-beauty-of-a-retweet/feed/ 2 Branding Manifesto Part 4 – Little-Used Strategies to Build Social Proof https://executivecareerbrand.com/the-personal-branding-manifesto-for-executive-job-search-part-4/ Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:10:08 +0000 https://executivecareerbrand.com/?p=6032 As part of your personal brand communications plan for executive job search, you need to build social proof. In this, the final part of my 4-part series The Personal Branding Manifesto, we’ll take a close look at some little-used ways and places to build social proof. Check out the first three parts: 1 – What […]

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]]> Branding Manifesto Part 3 – The Personal Brand Social Proof Paradigm https://executivecareerbrand.com/the-personal-branding-manifesto-for-executive-job-search-part-3/ Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:51:24 +0000 https://executivecareerbrand.com/?p=6026 The need for personal brand social proof is undeniable, but too many executive job seekers dismiss it or don’t understand it. In this part of my personal branding manifesto 4-part series, we’re looking at online reputation, online identity and social media. Catch up with the first two parts in this series: Part 1 – What […]

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]]> Some Surprising Things LinkedIn Says You Can’t Do https://executivecareerbrand.com/5-surprising-things-linkedin-says-you-cant-do/ https://executivecareerbrand.com/5-surprising-things-linkedin-says-you-cant-do/#comments Wed, 19 Feb 2020 12:30:18 +0000 https://executivecareerbrand.com/?p=5779 Have you ever taken a look at the LinkedIn User Agreement? You’ll find a long list of LinkedIn user “don’ts”. Violate any of these and you risk having them limit your use, or take down your profile. A scary thought, since so many people rely on LinkedIn for executive job search, career and business management. […]

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