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Track your job search: Office Live

November 2, 2009

Productivity is very personal. Some people live and die by their leather-bound Franklin Covey planners, others by their smartphones. Some people love Outlook, others detest it. And Google Docs seems to be the new place to exchange and share documents — but some people will never use it. And I’m a little more fickle when [...]

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Using Google Alerts: Market intelligence in your inbox

October 27, 2009

Solid business decisions are based on good information, and in a constantly changing environment, that information has to be current. Enter Google Alerts, a quick and easy way to get you breaking news and regular updates on what’s happening in your industry. To get started, simply go to the Google Alerts page. You can enter [...]

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The new digital divide, or Why Twitter will change the world

October 12, 2009

A couple weeks ago I was at a small gathering of senior-level women, sharing professional experiences in a cozy living room over wine and snacks. I mentioned that I was teaching a two-hour workshop on Twitter for business. The response from one woman was not uncommon. “Two hours? On Twitter?” The class was last week, [...]

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HowTo LinkedIn #8: Using the Outlook Toolbar

August 19, 2009

In the last how to, we talked about how to get your LinkedIn contacts out of LinkedIn. Now, how do you manipulate them? One popular way is to import the contacts into Microsoft Outlook, and use the LinkedIn Outlook Toolbar to manage the contacts through LinkedIn. To get started, you need to download and install [...]

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HowTo LinkedIn #7: Take your connections with you

August 17, 2009

Be sure to check out HowTo LinkedIn 1-6, starting with HowTo LinkedIn #1: Creating your unique URL. If you’re networking to build relationships, you may find it easiest to make sure that you’re following up with people regularly by using a system of some kind.  Some people invest in CRM software, others track their networking [...]

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HowTo VisualCV #4: Make your own references

August 13, 2009

One of the great features of LinkedIn is the recommendations feature, whereby you can share recommendations for your connections, and they can write about how fantastic you are in return. The limitation of the feature is that they have to write the recommendation and submit it in LinkedIn.  This adds credibility to the information, as [...]

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Recent presentation: Your strongest resume

July 23, 2009

For the fun of it, here are the slides from my co-presentation this past Saturday on Your Strongest Resume.  Thanks to Lynn Hazan, the other presenter and the originator of most of the content, for posting to Slideshare so I can share with all of you. NOTE:  On some systems, this loads slowly.  Not sure [...]

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Job search over 50: Unique challenges, unique opportunities

July 9, 2009

As much as my work as a career coach allows me to teach others, I’m grateful for how much I learn. Yesterday I had the privilege of having three great conversations with three different people going through job transition.  The common link: all were over 50. As we talked about their experiences, I was struck [...]

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Job search tip: Finding the hiring manager, Part 3

July 8, 2009

Need to catch up?  Here’s the first tip for finding a hiring manager, and the second. Your third tip for finding the hiring manager is this: Use LinkedIn to find a hiring manager Hopefully, by now you’re using LinkedIn effectively.  But did you know that LinkedIn can help you find a pathway into the organization [...]

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HowTo VisualCV #3: Using multimedia content

July 7, 2009

This is part 3 in a series on how to use VisualCV to represent your personal brand.  To catch up, check out Visual CV Part 1 and Visual CV Part 2. One great feature of VisualCV is the ability to add multimedia.  in a world where we are deluged with text, multimedia content can really [...]

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