LinkedIn’s Great Slideshare Presentation
How is that job search coming along?
I am sure you’ve heard the buzz—LinkedIn has become the #1 social media tool to professionally network, gain job search leads and penetrate the hidden job market. Mmm-hmm, glad you are aware!
Now what can you do to stand out from the crowd of executives and job seekers who have flocked to LinkedIn with the same idea as you? Many, many things can be done—but today, I am sharing with you the idea of incorporating a SlideShare presentation into your LinkedIn profile! Especially since SlideShare and LinkedIn have married!
My clients LOVE LinkedIn because they can conduct a very successful, stealth job search campaign— keeping them safe from their current employer’s wrath!
I LOVE LinkedIn because it has amazing features to help me, help my clients stand out by strengthening their online brand.
I have a very interesting story to share with you about one of my clients who (yes, with my support) made a successful career transition into a very difficult market (she is even relocating to a new state) by networking via LinkedIn—very strategically, I must add!
However, I will leave that story for another day. (Soon. I promise) Today, I’d like to bring your attention to how you can use SlideShare on LinkedIn and attract more power players into your network and win an introduction to their network!
Spruce Up Your Resume in 60 Minutes or Less
How would you feel if you possessed a nicely polished resume that projects and elevates your level of professionalism? More confident? More positive? I bet!
Crafting a dynamic resume that is also a great selling tool is more time-consuming than 60 minutes. Yet, with the following quick and easy visual and marketing ‘styleover’ tips, you will begin to distinguish yourself from the job search mob in half an hour! That sounds good. Doesn’t it?
Tip 1: Check spacing and make sure your page margins are set to at least 0.7 all around. This will not only ensure that your resume is inviting with enough white space but that it meets universal printing standards (abating printing issues).
Tip 2: Bold your name and enlarge the font to 16 pt. or 18 pt. Also, centering your name is a great way to make immediate impact.
Tip 3: Separate your personal contact information with a bullet or divider, providing great visual appeal and easy email and phone number identification. Include your LinkedIn link so that employers can read recommendations.
Tip 4: Add your target Job Title to introduce your Summary or Profile instead of the more common labels such as “Qualifications Profile or Summary.” This will help you add a great resume keyword right at the top and will lend to your expert image/ brand.
Tip 5: Edit your Summary or Profile, ensuring sentences end quickly; combine ideas and try to limit this introductory paragraph to five to six lines. This will help create a nice crisp look and you will deliver your marketing message more clearly.
Tip 6: Go through the rest of your resume and remove all orphan words (words left on a line by themselves). This just causes an unorganized look and it really isn’t necessary.
Tip 7: Bold resume sections (Employment, Education, etc.) and enlarge the font size to 14 pt. This will nicely separate the areas of your resume and guide readers through.
Tip 8: Group job accountabilities together in a paragraph form, separating from achievements. Keep the number of sentences to no more than six. People lose interest when paragraphs are long-winded. Plus, long sentences and paragraphs makes it easier for your message to become convoluted.
Tip 9: Separate your achievements (how you actually performed and the results you generated) from the job description. Bullet them; no more than five to six bullets. Any more than that will look too busy and unwelcoming to the reader.
Tip 10: Ensure you have begun all bulleted sentences with action verbs. Here: Download Resume-Writing-Academy-Verb-List provided by the Resume Writing Academy.
Tip 11: Make sure all your bullets line up and match! Inconsistency screams sloppiness and conveys unprofessionalism. Use square bullets and get rid of those old round bullets! It is 2012, people! 
Tip 12: Eliminate any hobbies or personal information (picture, marital status, age, religious associations). These do not belong on your resume.
Tip 13: Read the entire resume aloud to catch awkward phrases end errors. As you read aloud, analyze if what you have just read is relevant to your new career target, if not–remove it! You want to target your new job title/role.
Tip 14: If you have created a second page that is at least one third full. There is no excuse for a second page with just a few lines on it.
Tip 15: Remove the phrase, References Available Upon Request, this is very antiquated and unnecessary. Sure, perhaps in the past when locating wasn’t as easy as it is now with email, Google, mobile phones, etc.
Tip 16: For extra marketing power add a nice snippet of a recommendation letter! Works like a charm.
Now, get to work! Invest time in preparing a resume that you have polished, in turn, fortifying your professional image.
Can you list a few of your favorite resume polishing tips?
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Rosa Elizabeth Vargas
www.careersteering.com
writer@careersteering.com
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Nowadays you must craft the advertising of your qualifications as if you were your own company! Smart companies shift tactics based on market opportunity and needs! Are you adjusting your efforts to position yourself as the ideal careerist in today’s ever evolving job search market?
Dare to re-shape and revolutionize your job search campaign, beginning with a daring new resume that will soar above the rest.
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Breaks the Traditional Formatting Boundaries: It is ‘okay’ to use color, perhaps a testimonial, a quote or even a logo on your resume. In fact, I encourage it! See what a difference it makes. It will impress within seconds, enthralling your employer and guiding their eyes further down the dossier.
From The Ashes of VisualCV.com Grows Your Domain
What the closure of a site like VisualCV.com teaches us is that you MUST be at the helm of your digital brand’s development, navigation, and web hosting!
Have you heard? VisualCV.com will cease operations on 12/30/2011! This serves to reinforce what I have been advocating–you need to own your domain ASAP.com!
Everyone, especially careerist with defined personal brands and business owners should own their domain name and web hosting account. Even if you have no idea what to do with your domain name yet or where to host it—register it right away. Save it. You can work the development and hosting details out later.
All those job seekers who invested time in developing their self-marketing dossiers/resumes and uploaded to VisualCV.com will need to find a new home for their portfolios, pictures, references, CVs, and testimonials. Worse yet, the links they shared with possible employers and clients will soon be dead links! The connections they made via that site will need to be notified of their new home. Had they their own domain and web space– this would not be an issue. Read more 
