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How to Increase Followers and Build SEO on LinkedIn This Holiday Season

It is now widely understood how important a strong LinkedIn profile is to your job search efforts. Since its launch in 2003, LinkedIn has grown to include 875 million members and become THE place for professionals to network and be found. Unfortunately, I have found that most of my clients are not leveraging the platform to its capacity and, as such, are missing out on attracting new career opportunities to them. It is important to invest in your LinkedIn footprint so that your profile and… Read More »How to Increase Followers and Build SEO on LinkedIn This Holiday Season

Use LinkedIn’s “About” Section to Tell Your Story

Leveraging this LinkedIn field differentiates you from the competition. For the last decade, job seekers have been conditioned to focus on accomplishments, measurable outcomes, and endorsements when demonstrating their professional worth. Highlighting these characteristics when applying for jobs has proven to be effective because they emphasize the indispensable qualities that differentiate you from the competition. But do these accomplishments sincerely represent your true value to the employer? I suspect there is more you want to say. You might think to yourself, “Oh, I’ll tell them… Read More »Use LinkedIn’s “About” Section to Tell Your Story

How to Pull Recruiters and Employers to Your LinkedIn Profile

Are you tired of spending countless hours on LinkedIn searching for the right job and applying for open positions with no response? Does it feel like you are spinning your wheels? Well, if you are reading this post, I suspect the answer to both questions is “yes”. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could find a way to just sit back and let recruiters find you? Well, guess what? You can! It is called “pull job searching”. When you are implementing pull job search strategies… Read More »How to Pull Recruiters and Employers to Your LinkedIn Profile

Top Ten Activities to Kick-Start Your Job Search After a Layoff

Do you find yourself suddenly a casualty of a layoff or hiring freeze? If yes, you are not alone. What started as a downward spiral in March 2020, the U.S. has been facing a new wave of cutbacks and layoffs. We have been flooded with news of layoffs across the country and sweetheart businesses like Netflix, Microsoft, PayPal, and Uber which we believed were recession-proof are reeling from rising labor costs and slow business growth. The good news is that despite a slight decline in… Read More »Top Ten Activities to Kick-Start Your Job Search After a Layoff

Top Five Ways Volunteering Can Benefit Your Job Search

Volunteering may be the last thing you want or feel like doing while you are looking for a job. You might feel like volunteering would take away from the time you should be placed in your job search activities. There you go shoulding on yourself again. Make it a choice and you will likely find that it is the best addition to your job search strategy. Volunteering should complement not replace your job search activities. Commit to an activity 2-4 hours a week with one… Read More »Top Five Ways Volunteering Can Benefit Your Job Search

Top 10 Ideas on What to Post on LinkedIn

I post on LinkedIn on a regular basis but even I get stuck on what to say. I will find myself staring at the flashing cursor beside “What do you want to talk about?” hoping something creative and thought-provoking will pop into my mind. When nothing comes up, I refer to a guide I found on the Red Website Design blog. Below, I share that guide with additions that I have found to be helpful.

Design Think Your Career

Using the Design Thinking Framework to Explore Career Pathways “The pandemic accelerated existing trends in remote work, e-commerce, and automation, with up to 25 percent more workers than previously estimated potentially needing to switch occupations.” The future of work after COVID-19, McKinsey Global Institute, February 18, 2021 “Rather than view this as a crisis of capitalism, it might better be understood as the sort of world-making event that allows for new economic and intellectual beginnings.” The last global crisis didn’t change the world. But this… Read More »Design Think Your Career