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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 […]

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: LinkedIn, Social Media

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 […]

Filed Under: Networking Tagged With: LinkedIn, Networking, Social Media

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 […]

Filed Under: Networking Tagged With: connecting, LinkedIn, Social Media

Career Pivot Social Media Survey Results [Infographic]

February 24, 2016 by guest blogger Leave a Comment

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Social Media Survey Results A couple of weeks ago we published the following blog post: Social Media Goes Corporate – Are you Ready? In the post, we included a short survey for you to tell us what social media sites you use and how often. We followed up that post with a discussion about social […]

Filed Under: Survey Results Tagged With: Social Media, social media survey

Social Media Goes Corporate – Are You Ready? [Survey]

February 10, 2016 by Marc Miller Leave a Comment

Social Media Goes Corporate I recently read an article from the CEO of Hootsuite, Ryan Holmes, titled 2016’s Biggest Social Media Trends for Business. He highlights 5 social media trends that you cannot ignore. Yeah…I know you have been thinking that social media is a fad. Some of you think you do not have to participate. […]

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The Difference Between Following and Connecting on LinkedIn [Guest Post]

September 10, 2015 by guest blogger 5 Comments

Yes, there is a difference between following and connecting on LinkedIn. You can see the status updates of someone you do not know on LinkedIn and their long-form posts (LinkedIn’s blogging equivalent)- without connecting. (Note: this is a guest post by Hannah Morgan, aka, the Career Sherpa) Some LinkedIn Users Won’t Connect With Strangers One of the biggest […]

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Social Disruption – How Job Search has Changed

August 3, 2015 by Marc Miller 4 Comments

Social Disruption Social media has caused widespread disruption of the hiring process. The hiring process is very broken. Anyone who has searched for a job or has had to hire someone knows this is true. The primary culprit of this disruption is social media and technology. Let me give you some history. Twenty Years Ago […]

Filed Under: Job Search Tagged With: job search, Social job search, Social Media, targeted job search

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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Twitter, Hashtags and Your Job Search

February 23, 2015 by Marc Miller 3 Comments

Twitter and Hashtags How can using Twitter and understanding hashtags help you in your job search? I want you to think of Twitter as a giant chat room. Messages fly back and forth around the world—and many of those messages contain hashtags. What the heck are hashtags? Hashtags are just a string of letters and […]

Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Social Media, syn, Twitter

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