Posts Tagged ‘linkedin’

Job Search Experiment Episode 8: Raising Your Profile

In our ongoing real-life, real-time job search experiment with Cleveland sales executive Tim Krenn, we shift our focus to raising Tim’s personal profile online. In earlier episodes, Tim was guided through the process of creating his online persona on assorted social media platforms, crafting his...

March 19th, 2010 | Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, Networking, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

Real-life, Real-time Job Search Experiment: Episode 1

This week starts a new real-life real-time experiment detailing the job search efforts of Tim Krenn, a Cleveland sales executive who like millions of Americans recently found himself out of work and in need of a new job. Tim approached me a couple of weeks ago asking for advice on how to refine his...

March 1st, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Job Search Experiment, Networking, Resume, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

The Social Media Blacklist

The Wall Street Journal published an article yesterday that described how many major search firms actually keep a blacklist of candidates that they would never consider for any job opening. Typically, these firms add candidates to their blacklist who have exaggerated their qualifications, pitted recruiting...

February 3rd, 2010 | Featured, Interviewing, Networking, Social Media, The Search, Video | Read More

How Facebook Can Destroy Your Job Prospects

Although Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and the other major social media platforms have enabled job seekers to reach an enormous network of people during their job search, these same tools – improperly used – also have the potential to derail and destroy your efforts if you don’t carefully...

January 14th, 2010 | Featured, Networking, Social Media, The Search | Read More

10 Ways to Network If You’re Unemployed

Every major study of employment conducted over the past 20 years confirms that the way that most people find jobs is through some type of personal connection. A tip from a friend who knows that her company is hiring. A personal introduction to a manager who’s expanding his department. Or a connection...

January 13th, 2010 | Featured, Networking, Social Media, The Search | Read More