I’m fortunate and grateful to receive lots of requests to connect on LinkedIn. I follow the advice I give to job seekers: I connect with most people who ask me. Expanding my network on LinkedIn means: More people to learn from and communicate withMore personal brand evangelists – people …
YIKES! My LinkedIn Profile is Missing!
When I Googled the phrase "linkedin profile is missing" today, more than 400 million results appeared. Clearly this is an issue impacting and worrying many LinkedIn users. If you’re like millions of savvy job seekers, you count on LinkedIn to help you promote your personal brand and unique value, …
Showcase Your Personal Brand with LinkedIn Comments
One of the easiest and quickest LinkedIn ways to network with people you want to connect with – or those whose radar you want to get on – is to engage in their activity on LinkedIn. You can easily do this with LinkedIn comments. In fact, you can create a really powerful personal marketing …
3 BIG Mistakes That Screw Up SEO for Your LinkedIn Profile Headline
I look at a lot of LinkedIn profiles of job seekers. All too often their LinkedIn profile headline needs major work. Many of them have not changed the default headline automatically populated for this spot, based on their current, or most recent job title. I've found that many people don't …
Help! My LinkedIn Skills and Endorsements Are a Mess
A Chief Marketing Officer in global healthcare posed a great question to me about the LinkedIn Skills profile section. He posted his new LinkedIn content and was aggressively leveraging all LinkedIn features: “Quite a few people 'endorsed' me on LinkedIn, but they often endorsed me for …
10 Best Ways to Build Your Personal Brand Online
Like it or not, building your personal brand online and getting involved with social media have become essential components of today's executive job search. If you're NOT out there – building your personal brand online, and positioning your unique ROI (Return on Investment) and good-fit qualities …
Does LinkedIn Make the Executive Resume Obsolete?
With the popularity and power of LinkedIn, and the undeniable necessity of having a presence there when you're job hunting, some people claim that the executive resume is dead, or dying. . . . that it’s no longer needed, or valuable. . . . that a robust, fully populated LinkedIn profile is, in …
5 Reasons Your LinkedIn Profile Isn’t Working
Too many of the executive job seekers I speak with tell me that LinkedIn isn't doing much for them. When I take a look at their LinkedIn profile, the reason is often immediately clear. They've made mistakes with their profile or they neglected to do some very important things with it. No …
Top 10 Ways to Build Your Online Personal Brand with LinkedIn
Among the many benefits LinkedIn offers both job seekers and careerists, it is one of the best places to build your online personal brand and differentiate the unique value you offer your target employers. Don’t believe me? Try Googling “your name” right now. If you have a fully fleshed out …
Why Is My Executive Job Search Taking So Long?
Executive job search is complicated and it can take a long time to land a job you covet and deserve. It requires plenty of planning and purposeful work . . . before you even begin the proactive process of networking your way into your next great-fit gig. Most people in executive job search …