As a career marketing professional, I coach clients and teach college classes on the importance of networking in your job search. Today we recognize networking comes in many forms and includes both online and in-person networking. For the past three years, I have expanded and experimented with my online networking skills and definitely grew a… Continue Reading
Many job seekers know they should network. A few will tell you they don’t have a network. Others will say they tried but it didn’t work. Why networking can fail You were given the wrong definition of networking. You equate it with passing out business cards at a meeting and hoping you will get job… Continue Reading
Anyone who uses Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn knows that you really would like to change your profile pic a wee bit more than you want to go see a professional photographer. Some of you will have the perfect photographer in your family or maybe you are really good at using your cell phone to… Continue Reading
Everyone is telling you to use Twitter for job search. Everyone is telling you to use LinkedIn for job search. Everyone is telling you to use Facebook for job search. But once you jump into the water, you stall. You don’t know how to move forward. You don’t know how to use Twitter in your… Continue Reading
Everyone talks about this nebulous thing called networking. Some of us network without even thinking about it and for others, it is this bizarre concept is one they just can’t figure out. They can’t visualize and they make it way too hard. I coach all my clients that an effective job search includes networking as… Continue Reading
Sounds logical, doesn’t it? But I find that many job seekers think that all they need is to get the resume written. Never mind that many resumes don’t have any value and don’t sell the job seeker. That’s a different problem. Assume that the resume is top-notch, tells the story, and shows the value. What… Continue Reading
Are you only seeing stop signs in your job search? Would you like to know how you can turn those stop signs into offers? One of my clients touched base yesterday on Skype to let me know she starts her new position on March 1. “It seems that the job was destined for me as… Continue Reading
Last night I went to the Business PM for the Chamber of Commerce because a new friend told me she was going and offered to drive me. You could say I network all the time. I do. I interact with people all over the globe on a daily basis. But I don’t leave my office… Continue Reading
Disclaimer: this is simply my own research and experience in using Twitter. That being said, as an active user of Twitter since October 2008, I have made mistakes, learned from them, learned from other people’s mistakes, and learned from some of the best. Everyday I see both new and old users of Twitter misuse this… Continue Reading
