Determining how much time to spend on social media for job search depends on a lot of things. Mostly it has to do with how much time you can realistically devote to it. Let's say you have 3 or 4 hours a day to spend purposefully working on your social media channels. And let's say you’re doing …
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3 Important LinkedIn Profile Housekeeping Tasks
Many executive job seekers have a "build it and forget it" mindset when it comes to their LinkedIn profile. Once they’ve written a bit of content in the About section, and popped in their various job titles in the Experience section, they think they’ve done enough. Then, their profile sits …
7 Ways To Contaminate Your Personal Brand and Doom Your Executive Job Search
Sometimes in job search you'll inadvertently do something that will contaminate your personal brand. You do one unfortunate thing or get into bad habits and BOOM!, you've blown a hole in your brand. Other times, things beyond your control intervene to tarnish the good work you’ve done building …
Deadly LinkedIn Mistake: Anemic, Skimpy Profile
I'm constantly surprised by how many executive job seekers still haven't fully embraced LinkedIn. I'm surprised by how many make this big LinkedIn mistake. Sure, they all at least have a presence on LinkedIn. However they usually have only a minimal profile. Too many of them have very little …
Toxic Executive Job Search Belief: I don’t need an online presence
Why Every Executive Job Seeker Should Care About Having an Online Presence Executive job search is looming imminently in front of you, or you're already deeply mired in one. Having an online presence may be the last thing on your mind. Even though you've heard that social networking and online …
