What are the keys to modern job search success? Get answers to some of the most common questions: how to follow up without being annoying, how to avoid falling into the black hole and is how to make ...
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Are You Ready For Social Recruiting?
Social Recruiting Humanizes The Process
Despite the dismal response most job seekers get after they have submitted an application, some companies are trying to engage and respond to questions through ...
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Summary Sunday: Data Makes Life Easier
Sunday's are my round-up day. I re-share the articles that created a buzz or were just plain-old interesting!
Did you miss any of these?
Top 9 Posts For The Week
What Are the Top 10 Words NOT to ...
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Summary Sunday: Let’s Get Visual
Visual content is HOT...but what is it exactly? Pictures, videos, infographics, and images. There's an old saying, a picture is worth a thousand words. Visual content stirs emotions which leads to ...
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Small Business Saturday: Making Time For Social Media
Social media is certainly not a magic wand, but it is a fantastic way to network and grow awareness of your business.
There are two obstacles I regularly hear from people. They say:
I don't ...
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Summary Sunday: Weekly Round Up- Job Search and Online Visibility
From around the web, I curate and share articles relating to job search, career management, online reputation management and more! Sunday I call out my personal favorites to share with my readers (in ...
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Summary Sunday: LinkedIn News and Standing Out In Life
Summary Sunday is a roundup of posts written by other people. I carefully select some of the best from this week and share them with you. Truth be told, I've already shared these posts this week on ...
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Summary Sunday: Job Search Details
It has been awhile since I last created a summary of my favorite shared posts. (If you ever want a summary, feel free to check out RebelMouse or Twylah). Sundays I sift through the content I've shared ...
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Summary Sunday: Networking Like There’s No Tomorrow
There is always good advice to be found! I love sharing, so that's what Summary Sunday is for! I collect some of my favorite pieces others have written and call them out here to make sure you don't ...
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Your Summary, Profile and Pitch
Fine-tuning your message is one of the most important parts of prepping for job search.
Your LinkedIn summary, profile and pitch, highlight your most marketable assets in a way that entices the ...
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Your Reputation Precedes You
We all have a reputation...something we are known for by those people we call friends. It could be a skill, a personal quality, or an interest. Isn't it time you shared it with a greater ...
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Summary Sunday: Make Your Job Search More Social
Welcome to my round up of informative career and job search posts from around the web! On Sunday's I share some of the posts I've found that strike a chord or hit a nerve. I hope you enjoy them! (Now, ...
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Small Business Saturday: The Who Where and When of Social Media Sharing
Not every business is going to succeed on every social networking site. And yes, there are many variables to "success". This is my attempt to simplify the who, where, and when of sharing for the ...
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Motivation Monday: Work It!
Welcome Monday, right?
Before you dig into your email looking for that invite to an interview, stop!
Open up your calendar first! See what activities you've got going on for the day. Now, if you ...
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Summary Sunday: Job Search Round Up
Sunday's are the day I round up my favorite posts from the week and share them here. These are written by other sources and people. I encourage you to visit these sites and read more of their work! ...
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When LinkedIn Becomes A Pay-To-Use Product
The headlines read:
LINKEDIN SNUBS 400M+ USERS
Today, LinkedIn announced they will only allow paid subscribers access to their accounts infuriating their 400 million loyal customers...
Reality ...
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Ponderings on a Tuesday
I've been surfing social media streams all morning looking for ideas and creative thoughts to share and have come up with very little, OK, nothing. But while I was searching, these thoughts came to ...
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Keep Morphing
You MUST continue to re-invent yourself! I know- it's a lot of work and you don't want to, but look at the world we live in. Please, share in a comment, one thing that is the same today as it was 10 ...
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I use LinkedIn to…
How would you finish this sentence- I use LinkedIn to...There are as many different responses to this as there are people on LinkedIn. People use LinkedIn for many different reasons. LinkedIn is not ...
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Hot Social Tools Are Visual Aids
The headlines read: Facebook buys Instagram. Pinterest is growing rapidly. LinkedIn is killing the resume. The popularity of these social tools may have more in common than you think. They are ...
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Social Recruiting Just Works Better
Jobvite has released their 2012 social recruiting survey results! If you are avoiding social tools like LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook, I hope this summary of their findings convinces you to ...
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Clean Up Your Job Search with these 5 Tips
Spring has come and gone, however, it is never too late to do a little spring cleaning to spruce up your job search. I hope this post will give your job search a shiny new feel. ...
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How To Use Social Media for Your Job Search
Now is the time to start using social media for your job search. Learn the first steps you should take and what social media channels are popular with employers. Get started today by building your ...
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Add a Sense of Urgency to Your “To Do” List
Farmers are the best at completing their "to do" list. It comes as no surprise. An item left undone on their list could be a matter of life or death. So what can you do to be more like a farmer? The ...
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Who Are You Hiding From and Why?
As I deliver workshops on managing your online reputation and how to use social networks to job search I hear people voice concerns about maintaining their privacy. Is this a concern for you ...
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Social Networking Works
For all those nay sayers out there, I am happy to share the news that YES, social networking does work! But only if you are using it!
As with most networking, you can never be sure where or how ...
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12 Ways to Build a Better LinkedIn Profile
Follow these 12 timeless rules to build a better LinkedIn profile. Because your profile may be holding you back. ...
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Pinging Your Network
If you are truly ready to accept the challenge of networking for the rest of your life, then you will need to find a way to make it FUN, otherwise, well, you just aren't going to do it.
Reach Out and ...
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It Is Time for Your Check-Up Ms/Mr Jobseeker
You don't get a reminder call or post card reminding you that you should evaluate the health of your job search, but you probably should! And wouldn't it be great if your doctor posed questions to ...
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Proof You Need to Figure Out Social
For those of you who remember when job search simply required opening up the huge "help wanted" section in the newspaper- remember how frustrated you felt when you had to look for work on the job ...
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