Archive for the ‘LinkedIn Profiles’ Category
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
What a strong title! It is from Gizmodo: Is LinkedIn the Creepiest Social Network?
The author is wondering where the data comes from for People You May Know and People Also Viewed.
Worth a read...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn for Job Seekers, LinkedIn Profiles, Using LinkedIn | No Comments »
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
I got this question from Nathan Adams, a professional resume writer and owner of First Impressions Resume Center. Nathan asked other resume writers (and then emailed me this question):
Can someone provide advice on how our clients should portray their experience on LinkedIn once they have left their most recent employer? ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles | 5 Comments »
Friday, April 19th, 2013
Over the years there has been talk about the Name field... in the early days people would put email addresses and phone numbers, and that was against the policy. Apparently this was because you could put in contact info and go around using LinkedIn to communicate (or, to pay for ...
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Friday, April 5th, 2013
Check out this blog post from Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound.
I met Joan a number of years ago and did a few webinars with her. Her advice is really good and her newsletter has a lot of good stuff... I finally met her in person last year at a conference ...
Posted in LinkedIn Companies, LinkedIn Profiles | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 22nd, 2013
I doubt it. One could only be so hopeful.
Here's an article by a recruiter writing for Business Insider: Why I Think LinkedIn Endorsements Will Be Dead By The End Of The Year (oh yeah, I guess this was on Inc also)
I don't think they are going away for one simple ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles | 1 Comment »
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Stacey Zapar is awesome. I met her last year in San Diego and have seen her writings online. I think she is the most connected woman on LinkedIn.
Check out this post she wrote: 7 Things You Need to Know About LinkedIn Search. This is a meaty post. I would ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles | No Comments »
Friday, February 15th, 2013
Ryan Leary wrote a short post on Recruiting Blogs to see what recruiters think about the top 1% email thingy that has been flying around. LinkedIn makes everyone feel great with the 1% email....You've been made...
The fun starts in the comments... the recruiters are taking jabs not only at this ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles, Pet Peeves | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
Recently I've been engaged in discussion with a number of virtual assistants and resume writers who are concerned about people getting disciplined from LinkedIn because they are logging into their client's account, with permission, to do stuff for them.
Resume writers will login for their client and then make changes to ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles, Using LinkedIn | 20 Comments »
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
People have been getting emails from LinkedIn congratulating them for being in the top x percent of Profiles viewed.
The reaction I've seen ranges from "so what - that's not worth anything" to "this is a failure on LinkedIn's part" to some people feeling flattered that they are in a high ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles | 4 Comments »
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
I know no reader of my blog would make this mistake.
I just did a quick search and found 6,820 people who have "ass." in their current or past title.
4,626 have it in their current title.
From a very quick look, most of those are for "assistant" or associate, mostly associate (I ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles | 1 Comment »
