Notice I said join, not follow. This is another lesson that Jim Connolly taught me. You want people to JOIN you on Twitter not follow you. Follow sounds like you are setting yourself up as a magnet. Join suggests that you are open to conversation and relationship building on Twitter. What’s the goal of a…
You want LinkedIn to work for you but you are not sure how.You have heard people buzzing about how great LinkedIn is for job search or building your business. Unfortunately, no one taught you how to use LinkedIn correctly. Don’t let these common LinkedIn mistakes ruin your networking You don’t use your banner heading effectively….
Every once in awhile someone asks me or another resume writer to write just the cover letter. They don’t need a resume they say — because the resume they have is “good enough.” Well maybe… If one of my colleagues wrote the resume but then I would suspect “Excellent” would be a better word. And…
You have decided that the world is working against you. It is the economy, it is your industry, it is the fault of the government, you can not win. Really? I see job seekers and career changers every day who are so beaten down and feel like they don’t stand a chance in this current…
I didn’t join Twitter on day 1 but I’m not a Twitter newbie either. I believe my first tweet was in October 2008. I learned Twitter the way I learn most things. I followed people who seemed to know what they were doing, read blog posts on how to do it and went on from…
Did you miss me? Those of you who know me well know that I am generally very accessible. You could say that I am plugged in. And you can reach me so many different ways. I like it that way. I’m not one of those who would be happy to leave my cell phone and…
We have more tools than ever before in history to communicate our value and connect with others. But we don’t always use them correctly and that can have disastrous results to our job search or business marketing strategy. Consequences of using wrongly social media in the job search I asked: Could these 3 Facebook No-Nos…
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…
One of the reasons people struggle in their job search is somewhere along the way, they heard a resume was “just” a piece of paper. If something is “just” a piece of paper, it seems like it can’t possibly have a price tag on it, right? No value, right? Things change when we look at…
Jaclyn Wissmueller, from the Wausau law firm of Strasser and Yde, S.C., asked me to speak to the Brown County Association for Legal Professionals on how to use online resources like Twitter and Facebook to communicate. Jaclyn and I know each other from our church. She followed my blog since the Haiti earthquake when I…