You may be wondering what "100% complete" is, and why it even matters. When your LinkedIn profile meets their criteria for completeness, your profile is more likely to land higher in search results. Your visibility increases dramatically. Executive recruiters and hiring decision makers at your …
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The Biggest Mistake Twitter Newbies Make
You're skeptical, but you've heard that Twitter can help you with executive job search, so you decide to take the plunge and set up an account, even though you have no idea what to do with Twitter. You've selected @yourname, or a variation, for your username and popped in your email address. Then …
How Good Is Your Executive Brand Elevator Pitch?
Have you ever been trapped in a one-on-one with someone you've just met, maybe at a networking event, who over-anxiously monopolizes the conversation, making you listen endlessly to their career achievements and goals? While you're trying to figure out how to extricate yourself from the agony, …
5 Key Elements of a Strong Online Personal Brand
Do you want to increase your chances to be found by executive recruiters and your target employers? What job seeker doesn’t? Most recruiters and hiring authorities source talent by searching relevant keywords on LinkedIn, Google, and other search engines, and then assessing the people those …
Bullet-Proof Your Executive Career in the New World of Work
(An edited version of this article was originally posted on Quintessential Careers as part of the fourth annual Job Action Day initiative, celebrated this year on November 7.) Finding a job and staying employed today – two separate challenges – require more effort and strategic planning than ever …
One of My Favorite Blogging Strategies
I love blogging – running with the germ of an idea, the writing itself, the research (when necessary), recalling older posts to refer to, even the actual mechanics of loading on the content, finding a graphic and hitting the "publish" button. There's more geek in me than I ever realized until I …
Holiday Executive Job Search Tips
So many executive job seekers think that November and December are dead months for job search. No one's thinking about hiring, talking about hiring, or doing any hiring, right? That may or may not be the case. But this is a great time to lay some groundwork, make connections and possibly get a foot …
Job Search Tips From Jason Alba of JibberJobber
In my continuing series of posts focusing on job search bloggers you should know about, I turned to my friend and colleague Jason Alba. He has been on the scene since 2006 offering help through JibberJobber, a job search and career management tool, and several blogsites. Catch up with my 3 …
President-CEO-COO Manufacturing Turnarounds Executive Resume Branding
My client, Bruce Smythe, a pioneering leader in manufacturing revitalization and transformations, is actively seeking a c-level business leadership role with a new company. Because he’s not in a confidential search, he wanted me to use his real name here. We collaborated on developing his …
Executive Job Search: Update Your LinkedIn Network
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 …