6 top tips to ensure your online profile boosts your career prospects
I’m assuming your LinkedIn profile is complete, you have a clear and flattering photo, (head and shoulders). You have completed details on your career history and have joined a number of groups. Let’s look at what else you can do to boost your career prospects. Everywhere you appear online should be consistent – your […]
The need for basic online skills
It’s estimated that by 2015 90% of all jobs in the UK will require ICT skills. However, today a staggering 16 million people in the UK aged 15 and over don’t even have basic online skills. You may think the majority of people falling within this category are older people but there are also a […]
LinkedIn changes
LinkedIn is an essential part of our career management and job search strategy. I love to keep up to date with social media and since creating my eBook How to Use LinkedIn to Find a New Job I’ve regularly updated it and the 23rd edition was published on 4th August. Here are the changes to […]
LinkedIn Photos
LinkedIn is an essential part of our career management and job search and I gave a master class on this last week. One question I often get asked is about a photo – and how important is it? It’s critical, we look at people’s faces and are drawn to their eyes so you need a […]
How to use LinkedIn effectively
LinkedIn is no longer an option, you have to have a LinkedIn profile. You need to be on LinkedIn if you are looking for a new job, if you are open to new job opportunities and to help with your career development. I’m so interested in LinkedIn that I created an eBook – How to […]
Find jobs through people you know
The importance of who you know. How people you know will help you get your next job There’s a good chance you will get your next job through someone you know. This used to be that someone that you would hear of a job opening through a friend, or they would arrange for you to […]
LinkedIn – how effective is your online networking?
I am a huge fan of LinkedIn, and wrote an ebook which I regularly update – How To Use LinkedIn To Find A New Job, now in it’s 20th edition! I keep my knowledge up to date, recently completing changing to ensure I write effective profiles. Recently I came across a great SlideShare presentation and […]
Have you backed up your LinkedIn profile?
What would you do if you lost your LinkedIn profile? It could be because you have given someone access to your profile to revise some of the content, or there could be a blip and it disappears. It’s an easy task to back up your profile, and I recommend you do it on a regular […]
Your LinkedIn profile needs focus when job hunting
Four steps to determine your LinkedIn profile focus when job hunting 1. Who am I? We have many strengths, we may be good at many things but if we are job hunting we need to have a goal, a clear job that we are looking for. We then ensure that our LinkedIn profile is clearly […]
Review of Chris Brogan's Free eBook- Using the Social Web to Find Work
I recently got an email from Chris Brogan who offered a free copy of his eBook – Using the Social Web to Find Work. I headed to his site and firstly noticed it was on a blog page from over 3 years ago so would it still be relevant. But we are still in an […]
