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Do You Have a LinkedIn Profile Update Strategy?

October 29, 2018 by Marc Miller 2 Comments

LinkedIn Profile Update Strategy? You have plans to update your LinkedIn profile, but do you have a strategy on how you will leverage the update? If you turn on Sharing Profile Edits in your LinkedIn settings, all of your LinkedIn connections will be told that you have updated your profile. I know, I know you have been […]

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How To Stay Connected When You Are Not There

July 9, 2018 by Marc Miller 3 Comments

Stay Connected I was asked, by a member of the Career Pivot Community, about how to stay connected to his remote network during a job search. He and his wife are living in an area where the economy is in decline. He is looking for a job halfway across the country. I previously wrote the post, I […]

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Being Bold is the Pathway to Success in the 2nd Half of Life

May 7, 2018 by Marc Miller 1 Comment

Being Bold is the Pathway to Success Are you being bold in making changes in the 2nd half of life? The inspiration for this post came from the numerous comments I have been receiving from one of last month’s podcast. People have been telling me how inspired they were by episode #72 of the Repurpose […]

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Do Others Prejudge You Based on Your LinkedIn Profile? [Updated]

March 21, 2018 by Marc Miller 3 Comments

Do You Prejudge Someone After Looking at their LinkedIn Profile? Do you prejudge people? If you say no … well, I do not believe you. We all do whether we like to believe it or not. Thom Singer’s keynote speech at Product Camp Austin 14 was on how someone decided to prejudge him based on […]

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6 Key Attributes to Your LinkedIn Profile Header [Updated]

December 18, 2017 by Marc Miller 1 Comment

LinkedIn Profile Header The first thing you see on your LinkedIn profile is the LinkedIn Profile Header section. There are 6 areas that I want to address in this article. Note: This is an update of a 2013 post called 5 Key Attributes to Your LinkedIn Profile Summary Photograph Having a high-quality image of yourself […]

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Connecting on LinkedIn is Like Asking for a Date

June 14, 2017 by Marc Miller 2 Comments

My Connecting on LinkedIn is Like What? Have you considered that when you are connecting on LinkedIn you should follow the same rules that you used when you asked for a date? I have been married for over thirty years. My memories of dating are pretty vague but I do remember those awkward feelings when asking […]

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Free Version of LinkedIn is Dead. May It Rest in Peace.

January 11, 2017 by Marc Miller 18 Comments

Free LinkedIn is Dead I am declaring that the free version of LinkedIn is dead, may it rest in peace. I contributed the following quote to the Career Sherpa’s post 31 EXPERTS SHARE PREDICTIONS FOR JOB SEARCH IN 2017: The assimilation of LinkedIn into Microsoft will mean an acceleration of new features along with higher fees. I […]

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Anatomy of a Passive Candidate’s LinkedIn Profile

May 2, 2016 by Marc Miller Leave a Comment

Anatomy of Your LinkedIn Profile as a Passive Candidate In my last post, Are You a Excellent Passive Candidate or a Turkey?, I discussed why you want to be a passive candidate. I am following it up with how to construct your LinkedIn profile into a recruiter magnet. The infographic below is provided Akken Cloud and has been used by […]

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Why Are You Not Being Found? Try Thinking Like a Recruiter

February 3, 2016 by Marc Miller 2 Comments

To Be Found, You Need to Think Like a Recruiter Most of the time, the reason you are not being found is that you are not thinking like a recruiter. Recruiters are using LinkedIn to search for talent using specific strategies. Think of this like dating. If you want to find a mate, you need […]

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Getting Noticed – LinkedIn Publisher and Shareability

April 6, 2015 by Marc Miller 4 Comments

Getting Noticed It is all about getting noticed when creating and promoting your personal brand. I know, I know. I will hear from a lot of you that getting noticed is not what we were raised to do. LinkedIn Publisher, LinkedIn’s blogging platform, gives you exposure to your entire LinkedIn network…and more. If you do […]

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