Your LinkedIn profile could be enhanced significantly in a few minutes for better job search visibility and network friendliness. By now, you probably know the basics. Correct? Let’s see… complete the profile and use LinkedIn’s summary section. Try to populate your LinkedIn profile thoroughly by completing all the sections and achieving a 100% metric on […]
Social Media & Online Identity
You must have an online brand. Online presence is essential for executives. Learn how to build your digital foot print.
Good News In The Midst of The Global Pandemic
Fear, worry, isolation, illness and even death is prevalent news during this coronavirus pandemic. Yet, there are people, companies, organizations doing the right thing and their best to ease the burden, shed some light, and ‘stream’ joy into our lives. Below we have compiled a list of positive ‘happenings’ amid this pandemic. First, I’d like […]
Is Google Ruining Your Executive Job Search?
How To Repair Your Online Reputation A recent survey revealed nearly 50% of employers decided not to hire candidates based on unfavorable content they found online. Are you confident that when hiring authorities Google you, everything they read will shape a favorable executive image? Senior-level candidates undergo intense evaluations, and ‘digital dirt’ can remove you […]
10 Practices To Protect Your Executive Brand From Cyber Attacks
With rising cybersecurity threats, it is no longer just about becoming aware of IT breaches and protecting intellectual property. The rise of global security threats has expanded to the targeting of high-level executives—those with access to critical company financials and who serve as the face of the company. This means you must deploy a personal […]
Tips To Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile
Is Your Executive Presence Optimized on LinkedIn? An optimized profile on LinkedIn is a must-have for any level of job seeker, but many executives don’t understand the power of this social media platform. A polished LinkedIn profile is a critical component in attracting new opportunities with statistics revealing more than 3 million companies have LinkedIn […]
Are You A Superstar?
The job search competition is fierce –there is no way to deny that! All the career gurus are advising you to build your brand, get online, tap into the hidden market, launch a strategic job search campaign—but have we failed to divulge you must be a superstar!?
Facebook and Your Career
The most important thing you must realize is that EMPLOYERS WILL ABSOLUTELY GOOGLE YOU! If you have a name, you are googleble; if you have any social networking account, even if just one—you are definitely googleble; which means your reputation is searchable. So, now that we established this, what do you do with that information
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 […]
The Power of Your Tweets
The value of your tweets. Now that you have set up your Twitter account, what do you tweet in order to get closer to an actual job lead? There are many steps you can take to job search via Twitter but in this blog post I will focus on your tweets’ content because a great […]
Effective Web 2.0 Job Search
Social networking sites have dramatically changed the job search ‘game.’ LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, and Online Career Sites can help you– from the your home–discover new opportunities and tap into the hidden job market.