Archive for the ‘LinkedIn for Job Seekers’ Category
Friday, July 29th, 2011
My friend Chip Hartman sent me a 20 page slidedeck titled Turbocharge your LinkedIn Profile. You can access it here.
It's a solid read... you can flip through each slide and go back to your own LinkedIn Profile to beef it up.
This is an intentionally SHORT post because I want you ...
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
One of the most famous references on how to use LinkedIn is Guy Kawasaki's Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn. I still see people point to this post, today, more than four years later (LinkedIn was almost 4 years old when it was written).
I wanted to revisit Guy's post and speak ...
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Friday, March 25th, 2011
Last week I was in the Boston area doing some presentations and a teacher came up and said something like "it sounds like a lot of what you are talking about is for professionals, but I'm a teacher... should I be on LinkedIn?"
My first thought was "isn't a teacher a ...
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
On a LinkedIn Group I saw a message that indicated LinkedIn is reducing free account services (AGAIN)... this time it's a really big reduction.
I just tested and there is no change for me, but maybe it just isn't rolled out in my account yet. I honestly hope ...
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
I got an email from a forum I'm on linking to this blog post from Design Taxi: Report: Most of LinkedIn's Users Don't Use the Site.
What do you think?
Are you surprised?
I'm not.
Almost two years ago I wrote a blog post titled Fake Metrics, where I talk about the difference between ...
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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
The DVD is moving along... almost done! PREORDER the second edition of LinkedIn for Job Seekers, the DVD at a discount. Check out all the specials here
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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