Ever look at the People You May Know section of LinkedIn? This is the area that suggests people for you to connect with on LinkedIn. As I look down the page, I can rapidly count 15 people from the top who have no picture. I realize some of these people may be those that just… Continue Reading
If you are working in a job you love but want LinkedIn to work for you at work, how do you use it? A comment on my Facebook page: I see a lot of “value added” benefits for employees in their current positions offered on LinkedIn. From groups of professionals with experience to things happening… Continue Reading
Ever since LinkedIn launched the endorsement feature on LinkedIn, it has been fraught with controversy. Are people abusing it? Is it just like a “like” on Facebook? When the feature first rolled out, people looked at it with suspicion and wondered if it was a scam from someone other than LinkedIn. I wrote my first… Continue Reading
You are working hard to use social media marketing successfully and you have launched your LinkedIn profile. You will make a mistake or two or leave out something you should have put in your profile but here are the top 5 mistakes to avoid: If you are a job seeker, do not use the branding… Continue Reading
Most everyone knows the story about the Emperor with no clothes. Of course, all the townspeople wildly praised the magnificent clothes of the emperor, afraid to admit that they could not see them, until a small child said: “But he has nothing on”! We laugh at his pretentious ignorance of what he really looks like… Continue Reading
When you look at today’s job search, it can be a confusing array of too many options. Job seekers are told to stay away from social media and to go toward social media at the same time. When I determined that I would take Design Resumes to a new level in December 2009, social media… Continue Reading
We are coming to the point where many people now have a LinkedIn profile but not everyone who has one is an expert at creating them or even filling them out completely. Sometimes it is a matter of not having enough time and other times it is a matter of just not knowing how to… Continue Reading
The career marketing world has been abuzz with social media for a number of years now but every day I meet someone who looks at me curiously when I mention LinkedIn. Then I ask, “Do you know what LinkedIn is?” and I get that head shaking “no.” What is LinkedIn? Rather than baffling my clients,… Continue Reading
You want your LinkedIn profile to be found. You have fine-tuned everything else but now you are stumped by the keyword problem. You want to have the key words that will match the positions you would really like. You also want the keywords to reflect the skill sets you have in the positions you hold… Continue Reading
Recently, I asked you if you had seen the new LinkedIn endorsements. I wrote the post after seeing conversation about the endorsements on the career e-lists. Many people are not happy with this newest innovation by LinkedIn. They think it is too easy to point and click and therefore the endorsements are not sincere or… Continue Reading
