Every part of your LinkedIn profile is an opportunity to communicate your brand, but LinkedIn offers 5 longer sections to really brand yourself well. It’s one thing to have a LinkedIn profile. It’s another to have a robust LinkedIn profile that is targeted towards your ideal employers and …
How To Use LinkedIn for Research and Insights
If you’ve been on LinkedIn for any amount of time, you know how valuable it is for job search and career networking, and for top-of-mind branding. But are you using LinkedIn for research? You’ll start with your target list of employers. If you don’t have a list, LinkedIn can help you with that, …
Does My LinkedIn Profile Really Need a Photo?
If you think that HAVING a photo on your LinkedIn profile (and elsewhere online) may red-flag you for discrimination – age, weight, ethnic background, etc. – think again. NOT having a photo can be a red flag, too. I originally published this controversial post in 2011 and, over the …
Top 10 Executive Job Search Posts of 2020
I’m an avid and frequent blogger, typically posting new content about job search on this blog twice a week. Even though I’ve been blogging with at least once-a-week frequency for more than 13 years now, I still never run out of things to write about, and I never tire of doing it. I can’t keep …
FREE EBOOK – 101+ Top Holiday Job Search Tips from the Experts
Are you seriously looking for a new job, but figure that holiday job search is a waste of time? Nobody's hiring in November and December, right? You're wrong. The holidays are one of the BEST times to land a job, or make strides toward landing first thing in the New Year. This is mostly …