Whatever the controversy about the LinkedIn features or how they monetize it by changing upgrades or what other social media applications are in development, the prime issue is whether it is working for you or not. Despite multiple posts from career industry experts like this recent one from Career Sherpa, Hannah Morgan, “Top 10 LinkedIn…
I knew it was coming but I was delighted to find the above note from my oldest son on top of today’s Sunday paper. I collaborated on the Job Search Makeover project with the Wausau Daily Herald staff. The reporter, Jake Miller, photographer, Corey Schjoth, and multimedia editor, Carrie Hutton all came to my office…
In central Wisconsin where I live, LinkedIn is still under understood and underused. I don’t suggest that any particular social media is the solution to your job search but LinkedIn because of the power of its network throughout the world is the one you shouldn’t ignore. My client success stories If you caught the success…
Yesterday, I mentioned that I am trying out a new networking service, Quora. I have been known to be very visible on social media, I don’t sign up for every new thing that comes along. A tweet from Jason Alba made me check it out. I remembered Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter (ValueIntoWords) mentioned Quora in her Career…
Through the years, people have commented, “You are so organized! How do you do it all?” Unfortunately, this is another misconception about me, much like how I deal with balance as we discussed in yesterday’s post, Start with Balance. This is the fourth post in the series, You have to Start to Finish. Organization is…
Are you one of those people who are always misplacing things? I have a number of friends that keep every file on their desktop. Their objective is to easily find it. Guess what? With a desktop like the one above — and I have seen much worse, you will not easily find anything. Windows or…
Like many bloggers, I use Feedburner to manage my subscriptions. I am still learning to use all the features and I was commenting to my husband that I had x number of e-mail subscribers. He said: “So people pay to read your blog?” I laughed at him. He doesn’t do computers and if he wants…
I told Kimba Green and some other job seekers about Jacob Share’s contest on Job Mob. I encouraged her to write a post for the competition. Now you need to go read her post, it might make you cry. It made me have even more respect for Kimba who has become a friend when I…
Skype is relatively new to me. I probably heard the word, knew it was some form of communications technology, and knew some people used it instead of long distance and used it to communicate with family or celebrate special events. But that was all I knew and even that was fuzzy. This year that…
Jason Alba asked me to help me with a topic today so I can be found over on his blog, with the topic: Resume Objective Statements: Objecting to Objective Statements on Résumés Here’s the first part: Jason: What is the objective statement? Julie: From my perspective, Jason, the better question is “What was the objective…