Why it pays to provide recommendations to others on LinkedIn

One of LinkedIn’s most vital, yet neglected, goals is to obtain as many recommendations from past supervisors, bosses, peers, and co-workers as possible to enrich your profile. You can never have enough! If you are undergoing interviews for job consideration, future employers can link to the ...

Online Trolls and Haters

When Fame Bites Back – Online Trolls and Haters.   Everyone wants 15 minutes of media fame – whether they are a movie star, sports figure, athlete, famous artist, writer, or in the media spotlight. Being famous can also be debilitating and emotionally painful. Monica Lewinsky ...

Don’t Stop at the LinkedIn Personal Profile!

Don’t stop at the LinkedIn personal profile! You probably have seen the posts, the emails, and the training announcements where ‘specialists’ are horn blowing about building up your LinkedIn profile. They are directing you to get it filled out completely, get certain sections added, and the ...

Social Media Management – Who Should Do It?

Can’t take the heat? Stay out of the social media kitchen! How much have you budgeted for advertising, marketing, and branding and have you identified and planned social media operations in relationship to your business goals? As a small business mentor, I can spot mentees who ...

Blogging For Business

Blogging for business   One of most successful (and primarily free) methods of getting your company branded, and name recognized by your target market, is blogging on a business website and posting on social media platforms. A growing trend is educational marketing. Business website and blog ...

Build Trust Via Social Networking

Three ways to build trust via social networking   You get invites to connect on LinkedIn. You get friend requests on Facebook.  You exchange follows on Instagram and Twitter. You probably don’t know these folks, or they are 2-3 degrees away from your primary circle of ...

Fending off the wolves and pimps on LinkedIn

Fending off the wolves and pimps on LinkedIn   Recently a business associate of mine called in desperation about a LinkedIn incident. Someone had sent a highly inappropriate message to her in-box noting ‘she was pretty, they wanted to know more about her.’ This was an ...

Using Multiple Social Media for Job Searches

The 21st Century job seeker needs to cover all the bases, and ensure their resume or curriculum vitae is branded in more than job boards, but also in multiple popular social media platforms.

Last Ditch Effort After the Job Application Rejection

Staying within the circle of awareness may pay off in the near future when you showcase your professionalism in your career search efforts.

Name-dropping for your next job: How big is your ‘rolodex’?

Name-dropping – with established associations with decision makers – are important in the world of business. You know the cliché ‘…the good old boy’s club…’ still works today. It is hard to get into a decision maker’s office if they don’t know you or haven’t been recommended by someone they trust. How do you get started if you don’t have a list of names to use for stepping-stones in front of the right people?

LinkedIn: Why you don’t want to miss out on the activity

Do you ever ask yourself – what good is LinkedIn? How can it help me pursue business development or a new career search? What effort do you put into learning about LinkedIn and its advantages? How much time do you spend on LinkedIn daily? What do you do while actively reviewing your account; what sections do you ‘lurk’ in more? Where do you go when you have a LinkedIn question? Do you search in the Q&A, do you ask others in groups, or do you go straight to the Help Desk & FAQs pages?

Job searching? Expose yourself!

When you expose yourself, you get attention, and then you can direct the conversation towards your goals.

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20 Twitter Resources for Job Hunters

Many folks think LinkedIn and large resume job boards are the only real sources you need to job searches, - but a surprising other social media is a rich source for job seekers.

Recommendations Up May Get You Positively Noticed

Recommendations from others on your social media profiles gain you attention, but the third type of recommendation can also bring you lots of attention. This is the lateral or upward recommendation. And you are able to manipulate the recommendation to bring attention back to yourself and potentially obtain more eyes looking at your own job qualifications.

How Volunteering Equals Work Experience on Your Resume

Whether you are a teenager with little work experience, but plenty of time to offer charity organizations or a local NPO, or a corporate executive that volunteers on a NPO Board of Directors, the participation and experience gained is a vital and valuable work experience.

Using your network to find a job

The best method to start your advanced career position search is to reflect back on the people you have encountered over the past year and how you have kept up with them. Write notes for a loose script of what information or favors you are asking them for, and keep meticulous notes of the data to refer to if those calls are returned.

8 LinkedIn First-Time User Mistakes

LinkedIn is now becoming the norm for job seekers to post profiles as well as recruiters looking for and using the ‘inexpensive’ platform as a sourcing tool. Recruiters are just as discriminatory on what they see on profiles, as they would be in reviewing resumes. Those using LinkedIn for the first time can be in a rush, make minor or major mistakes, and don’t realize they have set themselves up for failure. Here are a few mistakes that can be easily corrected and will assist job seekers in getting the attention more easily from headhunters.

LinkedIn Training – Beginner’s Class, Sat. 03/23/13

• CREATE a LinkedIn profile to start linking B2B internationally • BUILDING the LinkedIn profile for query results from others • GROUP involvement to get into the discussion for topics related to your interests • GET NOTICED by businesses who want your services/products • BUILD connections to valuable business connections via invites • BUILD REFERRALS from past employers or (current) customers

Endorsements On LinkedIn Help Build Subject Matter Expert Status

I was checking my profile page today and found that I had more endorsements for my resume writing status than I ever imagined! Great SEO, but also acknowledgement from my peers and LinkedIn connections that I DO have great skills when it comes to resume writing!

LinkedIn Training for Beginners

OBJECTIVE: You walk out excited and have a more than basic understanding about what LinkedIn can do for your business, branding, business development, building relationships with other business owners, and to start your quest for more B2B sales in the future.

Tips to Get That Job in 2013 on LinkedIn

When I get an email request to ‘forward an intro’ to someone in my network, a recruiter looking for recommendations for a specific role, or a conference requesting speaker recommendations, I'll happily respond. That's what LinkedIn is for. And to hobnob with the top 1 percent of viewed profiles, all two million of us.

LinkedIn Profile – Vital for a Job Search

Is your LinkedIn Profile at 100%? LinkedIn has just celebrated reaching 200 million users on their business professional platform within the last few weeks (remember when Facebook got excited about reaching their half a billion users?). In researching this social media platform after LinkedIn recently dumped ...

LinkedIn Goal – “look-sees” by others

  With hard work and diligence – you too can start seeing multiple people seeing your profile or having your profile show up when they query for key words or phrases! Ask about LinkedIn training classes for 2013!

LinkedIn: Why you don’t want to miss out on the activity

LinkedIn: Why you don’t want to miss out on the activity. Do you ever ask yourself – what good is LinkedIn?  How can it help me pursue business development or a new career search?  What effort do you put into learning about LinkedIn and its advantages? ...

What to look for in LinkedIn trainers…don’t settle!

What to look for from LinkedIn trainers:   I am beginning to see more training classes offered from ‘Social Media Experts’ providing training classes for the LinkedIn social media platform.  What concerns me is the trainers are calling themselves Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).  When I view ...