“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
Read this post from The Daily Machete: Networking: Ask for Specific Help
As a job seeker, how do you ask for help?
I know that depends on who you are talking to. If you are interviewing with someone you don’t ask them the same help questions as you would as a fellow job seeker. And hopefully you [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Networking author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
I was talking to someone a few days ago and he was telling me about going to network meetings with people who really had nothing to say.
Do you ever feel, as a job seeker, that you don’t know what you could say when you network with people? Here’s what the guy I was talking to [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Networking author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
Remember the first networking event you went to – you know, the one where you were really going to network?
I remember mine. It was shortly after I lost my job. I was really concerned about networking with other job seekers. I judged them to be broken, problematic and useless to me in my job search.
Little [...]
tags: Networking, Required Reading author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
One day I was talking about networking with a fellow job seeker. John was an amazing networker and probably had “lunches” and “breakfasts” about 4 times a day. He didn’t eat much, but he was using his time effectively to get in front of a network contact, just him and them, with no interruptions.
During our [...]
tags: Career Discussions, Fun With a Purpose, Networking 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
Let’s make that Join RELEVANT Groups.
I have been doing a lot of work on LinkedIn lately and have really gotten value out of joining appropriate and relevant LinkedIn Groups.
When I join a LinkedIn Group I think about two things:
Can I find new, relevant contacts that I should be in touch with?
Will I want to communicate [...]
tags: LinkedIn, Networking, job search author: Jason Alba comments: No Comments
Peter asked the following question on LinkedIn a week ago:
What are your best holiday networking suggestions?
There are plenty of job seekers who will be in the job search, regardless of the notion that many hiring managers and HR will be out of the office.
What should these job seekers be doing for the next 1.5 months?
There [...]
tags: Networking, job search author: Jason Alba comments: 1 Comment
