There is soooo much content on Linkedin these days. A few years back, Linkedin began a conscious effort to serve up interesting news items and articles to keep users on the platform longer and more often. They needed to be less of a bounce-in/bounce-out resume platform. More eyeballs = more ad revenue. A simple andRead more
Great tutorial on Linkedin header images from Viveka von Rosen at SocialMediaExaminer.com. It just happens to showcase my Linkedin header image. How to Use the New LinkedIn Header Image for Profiles By Viveka von RosenPublished August 6, 2014 Have you noticed the new images at the top of LinkedIn profiles? Do you want to grab people’s attentionRead more
I speak with overwhelmed job seekers every week who can’t seem to gain any traction in their job search. They tell me, “I’m applying for just about anything that will pay me”. This, my friends, will get you nowhere. My suggestion to the job seeker is to stop the scatter-shooting and laser focus your search.FOCUSHereRead more
Your latest hire, let’s call him Joe, didn’t realize the far-reaching implications of what he just posted on Facebook. To him, a quickly uploaded a photo with a snappy comment didn’t mean much. Now, after a few eyeballs saw and commented, all hell was breaking loose online. No big deal, right? Maybe so. Just belowRead more
Your profile photo may be the most important part of your Linkedin profile. So how do you know what makes a good pic for you? We know profile pics are one of the things people click on most when viewing your Linkedin profile. This was boldly illustrated by Heat Map Studies recently posted on MashableRead more
On my birthday 2 weeks ago, January 9th, 2013, LinkedIn announced that it had surpassed 200 million members. Two major milestones. Next week I’ll be in San Francisco to talk about Linkedin optimization and other cool tools at the Social Recruiting Strategies Conference. This will be my 3rd #SRSC, and I can’t wait. More milestones…andRead more
A few weeks back I appeared on the Career Hangout (or CHO Show) as the guest of Lars Schmidt, Laurie Ruettimann, and Lance Haun, to talk about how to optimize your Linkedin profile. CHO is (was) a weekly Google Hangout designed to assist job seekers. They did a wonderful job of promoting my appearance.Read more
I have just finished day one of profile awesomizations at Linkedin’s Talent Connect conference. I thought it would be a great time to post this article I wrote for Linkedin’s blog a couple of weeks back. If you find this helpful, share it with your Linkedin network! Cheers, CF How to take advantage of Linkedin’s profile updateRead more
It’s called many things: employer or employment branding, recruitment marketing, talent attraction, talent marketing, etc. It’s a largely misunderstood thing that is really just about what your company looks like as a prospective employer to job seekers. Wikipedia describes Employer Branding like this: Employer brand was first used in the early 1990s to denote anRead more
Pin It The problem with trying to change occupations or industries, is that most people don’t have the skill set to support a broad leap in jobs. So they end up willing to do practically anything other than what they are currently doing, and subsequently flounder in their job search. After 15 years in recruiting,Read more
How well do you know your email contacts? Today Xobni released its social intelligence app, Smartr, for Gmail. I was interested to see if it would work for me as a compliment to, or even “smarter” replacement for Rapportive. I have been using Rapportive since early Summer as a social profile viewer/CRM inside myRead more
I was recently interviewed for an article, How to get the most out of LinkedIn, on MSN/Careerbuilder, that posted earlier this month. The article is very well written, by Alina Dizik, and I highly recommend it to job seekers, or anyone else wanting to get the most from Linkedin. Below I have posted her originalRead more
Are you getting the silent treatment when you send your resume to a company online? Maybe your resume isn’t getting the love it deserves because it’s not as shiny as it should be. And by shiny I mean easily found and full of the proper keywords in the right places. Here now are my topRead more
Thanksgiving is a great time let those in your network know how much you appreciate them. If you are a job seeker, you might thank your network for keeping you in mind for any job opportunities that fit your profile. And remind them of what you do and of what you seek. Peggy McKee (@salesrecruiter)Read more
Today I’ll be discussing Linkedin on CelebrityU Radio, at 3pm Central time, with Travis Blythe from Corner6Labs. Travis is a regular co-host on this show each week on Thursdays from 2-4PM with host, Kathy Hines. I will be on to talk about using Linkedin for business marketing from an entrepreneur’s perspective, and using Linkedin forRead more
I speak with overwhelmed job seekers every week who can’t seem to gain any traction in their job search. They tell me, “I’m applying for just about anything that will pay me”. This, my friends, will get you nowhere. My suggestion to the job seeker is to stop the scatter-shooting and laser focus your search.FOCUSHereRead more
Do you ever find that submitting your resume to an online application is like dropping it into a black hole? Maybe your resume isn’t getting the attention it should. Your odds of getting an interview go way up when a recruiter or hiring manager can find your resume easily online. Especially if they can findRead more
If you are a passive job candidate (someone not currently looking for a job but open to listening), are you likely to submit your resume to a job posting? Probably not. But you might participate in a group of other professionals with your skill set online that happens to be sponsored by a company whoRead more
On Tuesday, 3/31/10, I appeared on the DriveThru HR blogtalkradio show. Here is the podcast of the show. Show Name: (Replay) – "LinkedIn should be your friend" – DriveThru HR Show Date / Length: 3/31/2010 11:00 AM – 30 min Description: Host Bryan Wempen will be visiting about LinkedIn with Craig Fisher @Fishdogs ownerRead more
"If you could only have one social network to use as your main tool in recruiting, which one would it be?" This question was deftly posed to the panel by Chris Hoyt, the ending keynote speaker for the event at which I presented last week. I was on a panel for Jobing.com’s Spring Symposium withRead more
