Last week I talked about why your job search is going nowhere and made the funny (but true) comment:
Playing soduko online would have been more productive.
Still cracks me up to read that :p
I don’t want to steer you away from doing stuff online, though. I just want you to think about what you are doing [...]
tags: Career Discussions, LinkedIn, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
I just read this on a local newspaper site:
“Hours of his days the past nine months have been spent in front of his laptop screen.”
I remember those days. Totally fruitless. Playing soduko online would have been more productive.
“I’ve spent about two hours a day, 10 to 15 hours a week searching for jobs,” the business [...]
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Your friends and family want to help you land a job, they just don’t know how to help you.
I was inspired by a post on Keith Ferrazzi’s blog from Wednesday talking about Joy Meredith, who is in a job search and is making it easy for her contacts to know how to help her. Check [...]
tags: Career Education, Fun With a Purpose, LinkedIn, Networking, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
I’ve heard a phrase that’s become popular amongst people who haven’t been in a job search (but have been tied to internet or social marketing).
The argument is that hiring managers, recruiters and decision-makers can go to Google very easily and search for titles or people and start to get a list of potential candidates.
They say [...]
tags: Career Discussions, LinkedIn, Resumes, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
Brad, the partner of one of my favorite bloggers at Impact Hiring Solutions, wrote a must read post titled How Recruiters Search Using LinkedIn & What We Look For.
This is required reading… here are some excerpts:
So much has been written on the importance of a complete and compelling LinkedIn profile. I am currently working on [...]
tags: Career Discussions, LinkedIn, Required Reading, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
There is a great article for professionals in a job search titled How LinkedIn will fire up your career, posted on CNN Money (Fortune). Read the article… and then read this post with some contrasting info from recruiters.
This is quite insightful for anyone interested in career management… of interest is the information from Accenture’s internal [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, LinkedIn, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
“Long live the resume!”
The traditional resume will die!”
“Video resumes rule.”
This debate will go on and on and on. You know where I stand – the traditional resume will not die, but there is room for other “things” to come in and fill some gaps.
Enter the Social Resume.
I just got an email from the Brazen Careerist [...]
tags: Career Articles & Resources, Career Discussions, LinkedIn, Networking, Resumes author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
When I find your Profile I want to learn about you.
Make it easy.
Don’t make me go to Google to learn about you. It’s too messy, and I’m usually not going to find the information I want to see.
Put up compelling, interesting, relevant information.
I like to recommend that people tell stories in their LinkedIn Summary.
In addition [...]
tags: LinkedIn, Networking, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
If I’m looking for you on LinkedIn, and I don’t know your name, can I find you?
Imagine a recruiter trying to fill a job – and you are the best candidate. They don’t know your name, they are only searching on keywords.
Will your Profile come up at all? Will it come up in the first [...]
tags: LinkedIn, Networking, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
If you aren’t searching on LinkedIn you are missing the boat.
I like the simple search, but here are two other places I really like:
1. The Advanced Search
This is pretty powerful – you can search for people who USED TO work at a specific company. This is great because they might answer your questions faster or [...]
tags: LinkedIn, Networking, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
