Archive for the ‘LinkedIn for Job Seekers’ Category
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
I'm always intrigued to see how a specific group uses or thinks about a tool.
Job seekers think about LinkedIn a certain way, while wondering if their target audience (hiring managers, business owners, recruiters, HR) will find them and see their stuff in the right light.
Recruiting Tools has a nice collection ...
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
Here's a question I got from someone asking about the value of Monster in a job search:
(1) With LinkedIn's new Company Follow feature, LI Recruiter/Premium Membership, LI Corporate Accounts and (2) of course the fact that most of its revenue comes from ads and job postings, (3) how is LinkedIn ...
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
I read a great post with insightful comments about recruiters using LinkedIn. It is titled LinkedIn - Just How Good is it?, written by Keith Robinson. Some of the interest lines:
"when we use LinkedIn we find that at least 20% of LinkedIn profiles are essentially defunct..."
"at least 40% of their ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Wednesday I finished recording the videos for the second edition of the LinkedIn DVD. It's now at the video editing shop. I hope to have my DVDs in hand when I go to to a conference at the end of April... and ship out all the pre-orders before I head ...
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
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There is an awesome, revealing question/answer thread on LinkedIn asking this question:
Recruiters, HR, Employers: Do you search for talent on LinkedIn ALONE?
The ...
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
I was reading the blog of my Facebook coauthor recently. I was surprised to see that he wrote about the Brazen Careerist network because he tends to write about a lot of technology stuff, not career or job search stuff.
He starts out his 5th paragraph talking about LinkedIn... I'll quote ...
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
I've been thinking about prospective users of LinkedIn for a while and continue to ask myself how'd I'd answer the question:
Jon is a line worker at a manufacturing plant. Or a miner. Or a ________. It's a blue collar job. You find blue collar jobs differently than you find white ...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
This is more for HR and hiring managers who are looking for talent on LinkedIn. There are plenty of tactics to employ, I'm sure (share yours in the comments).
The question came from a buddy:
Question: I want to leverage linked in to find a replacement for [an awesome systems guy] ...
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
I spent some time on my JibberJobber blog today doing a LinkedIn Profile Makeover - go check it out!
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
I think there is still a lot of head-scratching going on with LinkedIn - you know you should be there, you might even get more business from being on LinkedIn, but what in the world do you do once you get there?
That is why I wrote my first book, I'm ...
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