Podcast #217 – Learn from Kevin Turner on How to Engaging and Courageous on LinkedIn to Revise your Personal Brand Description: Our guest speaker, Kevin D. Turner, is an organizational and personal branding phenom. After honing his skills at SONY, Stone VC, American Teachers, Thomas Nelson, and the AHA, he opened his own branding firm, […]
Do You Have a LinkedIn Profile Update Strategy?
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 […]
Do Others Prejudge You Based on Your LinkedIn Profile? [Updated]
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 […]
How Do I Increase Targeted LinkedIn Profile Views?
Targeted LinkedIn Profile Views? We all want more LinkedIn profile views. We want people coming to our profile but what we really want is for people who can affect our career to review or view our LinkedIn profile. Whether you are looking for a job or looking for leads to new clients, one of the […]
6 Key Attributes to Your LinkedIn Profile Header [Updated]
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 […]
How Many LinkedIn Connections are Enough Connections?
Enough LinkedIn Connections? How many LinkedIn connections do you need to make the magic happen? The answer is … it depends. It depends on how many people are in your niche. If you are in a highly specialized niche then less may be better. It depends on the size of the networks of your 1st-degree […]
Free Version of LinkedIn is Dead. May It Rest in Peace.
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 […]
Are You an Excellent Passive Candidate or a Turkey? [Infographic]
Passive Candidate The easiest way to avoid being a turkey is the be an excellent passive candidate. The concept of being a passive candidate is a relatively new one. The best definition I could find for this is term is: A passive candidate (passive job candidate) is someone who is being considered for a position […]
5 Tips On How To Manage Your Digital Footprint
Your Digital Footprint It is a brave new world of business recruiting. According to personal branding experts from EssayMama, recruiters no longer limit themselves to resumes, cover letters, and references. Recruiters now search social media for clues about who you are, how others perceive you, how you fit with their company culture and how well […]