Advanced LinkedIn TrainingCareer Resumes has been a sponsor of the Experts Connections webinars for a long time. Â This week, Wednesday, I’m doing a 90 minute presentation called LinkedIn For Executives – Beyond The Basics. Here’s part of the description: In this presentation, we will briefly review the basics and then focus on advanced techniques using LinkedIn. These [...] November 15th, 2010
Resume help on LinkedIn (LinkedIn Resume Group)There’s a brand new resume Group on LinkedIn to chitter and chatter about resumes! It is called “Resume Help and Advice for Professionals and Executives.” Click here to join the http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3662550. November 5th, 2010
Five More Job Search ToolsPicking up from yesterday’s post on five job search tools, here are five MORE job search tools: A really, really good elevator pitch. Most elevator pitches I hear are (yawn) horrible! Â One of the worst offenders is JARGON. Â Keep your pitch JARGON-FREE! Knowledge. Specifically, knowledge of today’s job search strategies. Â In my job search I [...] October 23rd, 2010
Five Job Search ToolsI was thinking about some of my mission-critical tools I use for branding and networking and thought I’d share some of them with you, especially as you work hard in your job search, with your network and your personal brand: A good email account. I really like Gmail for the interface, spam protection and ability [...] October 22nd, 2010
LinkedIn Answers – Join the Discussion?Following up from Wednesday’s post about Career Resumes on Twitter, let’s switch gears to LinkedIn. Connect with Peter Newfield on LinkedIn to receive a weekly question through LinkedIn Answers (not everyone receives it). Â Here are some questions he’s asked lately: Not only can you weigh in on the questions, you can learn a lot from [...] October 15th, 2010
The Living Resume?I’m at the National Resume Writer Association in Fort Worth, Texas to network with my peers and fellow resume afficcionados. It’s fun to get out and meet others who have their minds in career management all the time, and especially to see friends who I’ve known over the last few years. Last night at the [...] September 23rd, 2010
Job Search Success StoriesAlison Doyle writes the Job Search About.com column and is putting out a call for SUCCESS STORIES. There is so much out there in “do this and you’ll get a job” or “why networking works,” or things like that. Â There’s a lot of advice. Â And of course, there’s a lot of despair… all the stuff [...] September 16th, 2010
Can You Be Found On Google?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. Â I just want you to think about what [...] August 16th, 2010
Why Your Job Search Is Going NowhereI 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. Â Totally fruitless. Â Playing soduko online would have been more productive. “I’ve spent about two hours a day, 10 to 15 hours a week searching for [...] August 13th, 2010
Job Search: Ask For Help!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. [...] June 4th, 2010
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