Here are a couple of easy ways to add sizzle to your LinkedIn profile. Perhaps the most immediate impact you can make on your profile quality is to add an engaging and professional-looking profile picture. While you’re at it, here’s another quick and easy boost you can give your LinkedIn profile’s impression on visitors…
Read MoreUsing online job boards is one strategy in a well-rounded job search plan. Sites like Indeed, Monster, SimplyHired, etc. can help job seekers identify specific opportunities, find growing companies that are hiring, and even research salary and benefits.
Read MoreFollowing is a checklist for executives (and other workers) that will help you navigate a job search as our nation’s and the world’s economy struggle to recover and the great reopening begins.
Read MoreUnfortunately for many, the glowing, complimentary, or at least noncommittal reference you expected to receive from one or more of your previous employers could be sabotaging you. In the case of job references, what you don’t know definitely CAN hurt you!
Read MoreA turbulent year amid the COVID pandemic has prompted many executives, managers, and rank-and-file workers to consider other career options, particularly when their careers of many years have seemingly gone away. Even those who have remained employed may be rethinking their career paths. While there are honorable reasons for staying in a job you hate, that doesn’t have to be your destiny.
Read MoreAn option some of my executive clients have considered in the COVID business environment is to stop waiting for the next job opportunity and create it themselves by becoming an entrepreneur or consultant. The great thing about making this change mid-to-late career is that you already have a lot going for you.
Read MoreOnce you have an offer on the table for an executive job, here are some things to consider carefully before accepting, negotiating, or declining.
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Many people are out of work because of the coronavirus pandemic, and many more will likely lose their jobs as the economy continues to struggle. Here is some guidance on ways to help make ends meet when you’re between jobs.
Read MoreEven if you have a dynamite executive resume and LinkedIn profile, there are plenty of basic mistakes you can make that will slow or even bring your executive job search to a screeching halt.
Read MoreHere are some ongoing trends that you may need to take into account as you manage your executive career or write your executive resume in 2020.
Read MoreRecent LinkedIn blog posts and a CBS This Morning interview with LinkedIn’s Editor-In-Chief Dan Roth tell us that October is the month with the highest number of job openings on LinkedIn’s website. And amazingly, 89 percent of hiring managers fill those open positions in less than four weeks! With the unemployment rate at a 50-year low, it is a candidate’s market, and your competition for one of those openings will likely be lower as a result.
Read MoreThis is the 14th year for “International Update Your Resume Month.” Because you never know when you’ll need an updated resume “yesterday,” this serves as an annual reminder for professionals and executives to review and update their executive resume, LinkedIn profile, and other career documents.
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