Do Just One Thing – Add Your Volunteer Activities
You are More Than Your Headline LinkedIn is an excellent place to showcase your primary work skills in order to position you for a new job or a promotion. Did …
Do Just One Thing – Add Your Recent Experience
(From the series “Do Just One Thing” dedicated to helping you complete and utilize your LinkedIn profile in just 5 minutes a day) Your most recent job listing is very …
Do just one thing – Two Steps to Safeguard your LinkedIn Assets
Who “owns” your profile and connections on LinkedIn? You probably think you do. The answer is a little more complicated. If LinkedIn went out of business/got hacked/got greedy tomorrow, you …
How Personal Should You Get On LinkedIn?
The Perils and Payoffs of getting personal on LinkedIn We’re constantly being told we should be authentic on LinkedIn and many people are left wondering just how authentic should they …
Great Manager LinkedIn Profiles as a Recruitment Tool
Competing for Talent Sometimes I work individually with senior executives and they will then bring me in to teach a workshop for a larger group of their managers at successful …
Comments and posts and shares – Oh My!
Dorothy: Do – do you suppose we’ll meet any wild prospects? Tin Man: We might. Dorothy: Oh! Scarecrow: Prospects that – that we could do business with? Tin Man: Uh, …
Why You Need a Photo on your LinkedIn Profile
It’s good manners to include a photo in your LinkedIn profile. Just like offering a handshake when you first meet someone. Many people automatically reject connection requests from people who …
Why and How You Should Get Active on LinkedIn
Activity on LinkedIn is very visible LinkedIn changed the look of LinkedIn some while back so that your activity is very prominent on your profile and has become a very …
Better to Give than Receive – Giving Recommendations Strategically on LinkedIn
Wouldn’t anyone be grateful for a recommendation on LinkedIn? Not necessarily. Why should you take the time to give someone a recommendation? You’d be surprised at the benefits you can …
Breathe, Mouse Over and Refresh (BMR) for Sanity on LinkedIn
LinkedIn It’s a fact of life: LinkedIn is frequently buggy. It gets stuck, won’t let you save changes, and/or won’t show some information. Not to mention the frequent changes in …
