Social Media for Job Search Advice: Stop Fondling the Hammer!

The inspiration for this blog post comes from someone I consider to be a true thought leader in social media, someone who I had a chance to finally meet in person recently: Jeremiah Owyang.  He wrote a blog post back in 2008 entitled “Stop Fondling the Hammer, and Focus on the House,” and I didn’t [...]
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12 Reasons Why Your Small Business Isn’t Getting Leads from LinkedIn

I am amazed by how many small businesses do not utilize social media to the maximum.  Think about it: social media, like the internet two decades ago, allows any business to compete with larger, more established entities.  Come on, what are you waiting for?
What further amazes me is how few small businesses maximize their presence [...]
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How Should I Deal with a LinkedIn Recommendation Request I Don’t Want to Give?


If it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will soon: the dreaded request for a LinkedIn Recommendation from a former co-worker or employee that you may not want to give one to.  Why?  Well, every time you make a LinkedIn Recommendation, it appears on your LinkedIn Profile and becomes part of your LinkedIn Brand.  Perhaps [...]

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6 Tips on LinkedIn for Recruiting: My Advice for Recruiters & Headhunters


I will start out this post by letting you know that I am not in any way nor have ever been a recruiter or a headhunter.  While I have been a hiring manager for previous companies, my experience in being able to write this post comes from helping out many recruiters looking for candidates on [...]

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5 Ways How I Can Help You Find a Job on LinkedIn


As you probably already know, I am very active on LinkedIn as a LinkedIn Open Networker or LinkedIn LION.  I accept all LinkedIn invitations, and I respond to each invitation with asking my new connections how I might be able to help them.  I often get the following response, which I again received just this [...]

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Jobseeker in 2010? Why LinkedIn for Your Job Search will Become the New Monster.


It’s no surprise that jobseekers flocked to LinkedIn with this past recession after realizing that most recruiters were already heavy LinkedIn users and were using the social networking platform to find new talent.  So many jobseekers are utilizing LinkedIn that some are calling it less of a professional networking site and more of a jobseekers…

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Top 25 Most Useful LinkedIn Blog Posts of 2009


As the year comes to a close, it is time to look back, before looking forward to 2010, at all of the informative and insightful blog posts that the world has created in the past 365 days concerning LinkedIn.  LinkedIn itself, while beginning 2009 at a slow start, ended the year announcing 50 million members, [...]

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What’s Missing Here? A Detailed Analysis of the New LinkedIn User Interface


I finally got access to the new LinkedIn user interface yesterday, so I thought I would write up a quick comparison to the old user interface and conclude with my thoughts on whether or not this is a step forward for the LinkedIn user.  I already mentioned in a previous post that the new LinkedIn [...]

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How to Build a Successful LinkedIn Group Case Study


Today’s blog post has been contributed by Lisa Hendrickson, the owner of Call That Girl! (CTG) based out of Minneapolis, MN.  CTG does local and nationwide telephone supported computer repair/troubleshooting.

My personal experience with using LinkedIn Groups has been more than exciting and has also brought me to my first “eye-opening” attention grabbing numbers of making [...]

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