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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 your way into a new city

October 16, 2009

I grew up in Michigan. It’s a beautiful state, with plenty of fresh water and natural woodlands. I lived in the Upper Peninsula for a while, where a Saturday morning’s activity might be hiking to a waterfall or a boat ride on Lake Superior. Most of my time was spent in the Detroit area, where [...]

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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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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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Your Job Search Partner: Working with an executive recruiter in your job search

July 16, 2009

Here, just for extra-special you, is the recording of last night’s teleseminar on working with recruiters in your job search.  There is some great info in here on how to build effective relationships with an executive recruiter.  Thanks again to Lynn Hazan and Jeff Lipschultz for giving their time and knowledge so that all of [...]

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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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Your personal brand: The tagline

June 18, 2009

Lots of information out there about personal branding talks about the tools available to you.  Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogging, VisualCV, MySpace, Squidoo, resume, cover letters, business cards, etc., etc.  What less people talk about is development of a compelling personal brand — the thing that you’re trying to communicate through all of these media. One [...]

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HowTo VisualCV #1: Getting Started

May 26, 2009

This post kicks off a series on how to use VisualCV, a great option for people who want to expand their professional profile online.  Wanna be sure to catch the next round?  Subscribe, and get Career Adventure goodness in your feed reader OR your inbox. I’ve used LinkedIn fairly extensively (you can check out my [...]

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