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LinkedIn Advanced Techniques for Job Search Networking

February 15, 2010

Even LinkedIn ninjas may not be taking advantage of some of the more advanced techniques for increasing your LinkedIn impact. If your profile hasn’t been tweaked in a while, consider these advanced techniques for your LinkedIn strategy. Drag-and-drop reordering of LinkedIn content. LinkedIn has just added the capability to move content up or down the [...]

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Networking Ninja Tip: Know What You Need

October 15, 2009

There are hundreds of opportunities for networking, and if you take advantage of a fraction of them you’ll likely meet scores of people with whom you can “network.” You can take their info, follow up, schedule a face-to-face meeting. In fact, the networking events that I’ve been to lately are huge proponents of the face-to-face [...]

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Not everything is a job search nail: Effective use of your resume

October 5, 2009

Have you joined the Career Mastermind Network? Jump in for “30 Days to a Powerful LinkedIn Presence.” If you’re trying to fix a hole in the wall, are you going to go after it with a hammer? Every home improvement project has a general work flow and calls for a specific set of tools. To [...]

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5 Ways to Get Unstuck Today to Achieve Your Goals

September 22, 2009

Are you stuck in a Geico commercial? You know the one. Unsuspecting men and women are pursued by a stack of money with enormous, plastic googly eyes. “You could be saving money,” the eyes imply with their accusatory stare. Perhaps you’re not being stalked by anthropomorphic cash, but you may very well have a set [...]

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Visualizing your non-SMART goals: the vision board

September 16, 2009

What do you want to accomplish before the end of the year?  Before the end of the month?  What about just today? How clear are you on your goals? SMART goals are often touted in the business world. For the uninitiated, SMART goals stands for: Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely Writing SMART goals is an [...]

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Keeping motivated: Track your progress

August 25, 2009

What’s the longest-term goal that you’re working on right now? It might be something a few weeks away, months or even years.  The really big goals — things like college degrees, career advancement, planning for retirement — tend to be in the “years” category. Achieving goals with years-long timelines can be really difficult, as it’s [...]

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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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