- How Would You Rate Your LinkedIn Profile?
- Is Your LinkedIn Profile Hurting Your Job Search?
- Building An Effective Network Step 2 – Online Social Media & LinkedIn Profile
Your LinkedIn Profile May Be More Critical Than Your Resume In A Job Search
This is an important discussion that I believe will accelerate over the next few years, especially for professionals and those in managerial positions. However, I still believe that the discussion is very relevant for all others.
Right now this is the, “which came first the chicken or the egg” argument.
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Who Cares What Your Status is on LinkedIn? Job Search Tactic #4
Lots of people care!
Your network wants to be given an opportunity to clap for you!
That’s why you should be updating your status every 24-48 hours.
Your network wants to know how your job search is progressing
Your network wants to know the type of companies with whom you’re interviewing
Your network wants to know the executives [...]
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Is Your LinkedIn Profile Hurting Your Job Search?
At a recent Vistage meeting of about 20 CEOs we were discussing using social media as a way to find people. One of the CEOs indicated it is also a great way to eliminate people.
I wasn’t overly surprised to learn that many hadn’t thought about social media for hiring, but I was surprised to [...]
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Answering Those Box Checking Interviewing Questions – Audio Recording
Don’t Be A Box-checking Victim
STOP allowing yourself to be box-checked in the interview by recruiters, HR, and hiring managers. You CANNOT SUCCEED in the interview if you are being box-checked against a traditional job description listing precise years of experience, exact industry experience, product knowledge, specific channels, [...]
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How Would You Rate Your LinkedIn Profile?
I recently asked this question on LinkedIn, “How would you rate your LinkedIn profile?” The choices were, poor, fair, good or very good. I wasn’t referring to completeness based on the LinkedIn scale. I wanted to know how you would rate your profile based on how good or compelling it is.
Would a recruiter, HR professional, [...]
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Don’t Be Like Groucho Marx – Job Search Tactic #2
Groucho Marx once said “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member.”
Groucho must not have been conducting a job search when he made that comment.
Joining Groups (like clubs) on LinkedIn is an excellent way to engage with people who hold a similar interest, make new contacts, network, and [...]
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How Do You Guarantee Career and Job Search Success?
Can You Be Easily FOUND?
One of the methods of ensuring long-term career success is to build a powerful personal brand so that you can be found vs. always trying to find a better deal when your desperate.
Take all 8 of his benefits together and you've almost got a guarantee of success.
Andy obviously subscribes to the school of Harvey McKay, who wrote the blockbuster "Dig Your Well Before You Need It".
Why wait until you're desperate and have to make a move - frequently landing yourself in the ugly "Cycle of Transition?"
A very good read on justifying a continuous investment in building your personal brand - both on-line and off-line.
Barry Deutsch
PS - One of the first steps in building a powerful personal brand is to ensure your LinkedIn Profile can be found by people (HR, Hiring Managers, Recruiters) looking for individuals just like you.
Stop Being a LinkedIn Lurker: Job Search Tactic #3
Sounds like something you could be arrested for – maybe even a felony conviction.
Seriously, if you want to take your job search to another level, you’ve got to engage in communicating and interacting on the primary social media forum for professionals, managers, and executives.
Studies show that 90% or more of all users of social media [...]
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How To Get Recruiters To Reply To Your Resume
I know this is one of the major complaints by candidates. I hear it all the time, “I send them my resume and they don’t reply. Most won’t even return my phone call.” As difficult as it is to say, for the most part these candidates are correct. That doesn’t mean it is right, it [...]
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How to Improve Your LinkedIn Profile: Job Search Tactic #1
Brad and I have talked endlessly about how much easier your job search is to found than to find a job. I recently wrote a post on this exact subject.
We did a radio broadcast on how to improve your LinkedIn Profile. We posted our LinkedIn Self-Assessment Scorecard on our site a few months ago - [...]
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