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LinkedIn: A Strong LinkedIn Profile and the Answers Feature Go Hand in Hand

February 21st, 2011

By Bob McIntosh, CPRW, MBTI

Do you have an outstanding LinkedIn profile? Are you working on improving it? Or is it blank and forgotten? If the answer is the former, I salute you. Even if you’re making daily strides to make it better, there’s hope for you. On the other hand, if your profile resembles something found in the attic and needs to be dusted off, then close down your account. That’s right, close it down. The miniscule space you’re taking up on the Internet is too much.

A vast majority of LinkedIn.com aficionados will concur that the most important investment you must make in your LinkedIn involvement is your profile, as it presents you as a serious jobseeker and business leader. Your profile is essentially your most potent online branding tool and how people measure your accomplishments, based on a number of components: Photo; Summary; (Work) History; Education; Interests; Recommendations, Connections; and some extras like a blog, website, reading list, slideshow, and more. Without an effective profile, you’re wasting your time and possibly hurting your chances of getting an interview or enhancing your business.

LinkedIn offers some pretty neat features that require a strong profile in order for an LI user to reap rewards from them. There are notable features like Jobs, People, and Companies search. But if you want to utilize any of these features, such as apply for a job on LI, locate a long-lost person, » Read more: LinkedIn: A Strong LinkedIn Profile and the Answers Feature Go Hand in Hand

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LinkedIn: 4 Steps to Getting Job Interviews

April 18th, 2010

Many job seekers have heard that 80% of potential employers will look you up on LinkedIn. You might have a LinkedIn profile. And now you’re asking, “What do I do now”.

A Webinar with Joshua Waldman & JT O’Donnell helps job seekers create a strategy to get noticed by employers on LinkedIn.

Download the Slides HERE

Download the Action Sheet HERE

About Joshua Waldman

Joshua has worked with both businesses and individuals on a variety of Internet marketing and branding issues.  He has helped them develop strategic marketing plans, scripts and powerful profiles that get them noticed.  He began teaching social media to job seekers in 2006 when he realized that the internet marketing skills he had acquired from running his own business and career are directly transferable to the job search.

Joshua’s company, Career Enlightenment, specializes in helping MBAs who are frustrated with the job search to learn new ways of applying their business savvy through exciting social media tools they didn’t learn in school. With Career Enlightenment the job seeker will learn a 5-step process for identifying, repairing, and growing your online reputation so that you get unsolicited calls from hiring managers.

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Job Search Tips: Using the Social Web to Find Work

March 22nd, 2010

Chris Brogan published a free ebook for you to download and share with others in 2008, it is a good primer for those exploring and using social media in their job search. It takes you from the specifics of using LinkedIn to your benefit, into some ideas on how to grow and nurture your social networks ahead of a need for them.

LinkedIn:

  • The headline is the most important part of your profile.
  • Update your profile summary every 2 weeks, keep it fresh and write it from the perspective of the potential employer
  • Help people with their search by giving out recommendations to people you can vouch for
  • Only recommend people you can personally vouch for

Twitter:

  • Thousands of great minds all plugged into the same conversation and some of them could help you achieve your goal
  • Don’t be a follower be a leader. Find appropriate groups, reach out, and contribute.
  • Follow Chris Brogan’s 9 step process for networking on Twitter:
  1. Be clear out your goals, write them down. Think about how you can help other people achieve their goals. » Read more: Job Search Tips: Using the Social Web to Find Work

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