Archive for the ‘LinkedIn Profiles’ 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 ...
Posted in LinkedIn for Job Seekers, LinkedIn Profiles | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
As a Group admin I get to approve requests to join my LinkedIn group. Every time I do it I always skip a few ... usually those that LinkedIn warns me about.
There are two things that jump out at me that make me think the person/account/Profile isn't a real person... ...
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Amber Mac wrote a short article on Fast Company with the five LinkedIn tips you didn' t know (see list here).
The good news? If you've been reading this blog, my LinkedIn book, or my LinkedIn DVD, you did know about them! Here they are (see her article for her thoughts ...
Posted in LinkedIn Applications, LinkedIn Groups, LinkedIn Maintenance, LinkedIn Profiles, Using LinkedIn | 1 Comment »
Monday, June 6th, 2011
Here's the other problem I see when people think they are sharing a link to their LinkedIn Profile. I see this about 40% of the time.
When you share your LinkedIn Profile URL with someone, many times you go into LinkedIn, click on Profile (top menu option) and then copy and ...
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
There are two common mistakes people make when sharing their LinkedIn Profile. One is that we share our "public profile" URL and assume people can see the entire profile.
How naive of us to think that's how it would work, right?
Actually, this is one of my pet peeves that I ...
Posted in LinkedIn Profiles, Using LinkedIn | 2 Comments »
Monday, May 16th, 2011
I'm getting more LinkedIn spam through direct messages. It's dissappointing because it hasn't been very common.
Here's how this spammer started - it looks like they have a program to extract my title and other general information from my Profile, and marry it to a template message (the rest is as ...
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
If you change your current title in LinkedIn, double check to see if it is now your Professional Headline.
I recrafted my Professional Headline and then add a new current title, and it overwrote my Professional Headline. :(
A few weeks later it happened again, on another account.
I'd mark this up to ...
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Yesterday I announced I brought on my dad to the JibberJobber team, and WE'RE EXCITED! I'm super excited to have his help, and he's excited to have a change in his career. You can read about it here.
Today we spent some time on his LinkedIn Profile. For various reasons (good ...
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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 ...
Posted in LinkedIn Connections, LinkedIn for Job Seekers, LinkedIn Profiles | 3 Comments »
Friday, February 25th, 2011
This week my friend from Paris emailed a list of colleagues asking for recommendations for service providers for her clients. Bernadette Martin got a number of recommendations and went to check out their LinkedIn Profiles.
So far, so good, right?
Nope. Here's her response to the Group (slightly edited):
Thanks for this. The ...
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