Author Archives: Keith McIlvaine

About Keith McIlvaine

Keith McIlvaine is a Social Media Strategist within HR and Recruiting for a Fortune 500 company. When he is not focused on leveraging social media and networking, Keith is also a personal branding coach and social media mentor. He is passionate about his family and is a major soccer fanatic. The statements I have posted on this site are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.

Authentic Personal Branding: Tap Social Media to Improve Your Personal Brand

How To

I attended the Social Recruiting Summit in New York, NY on November 16th. Besides being a phenomenal day, it was a perfect for networking.  Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networks have a lot of personalities, but wouldn’t it be cool if you could actually meet so-and-so in person? Like it or not, online personalities

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Realize Your Dream Through Leveraging Social Media

Horror/Success Stories

Have you heard those stories about people who follow their passion and by doing so end up finding their dream job?  Yeah, me too, although I never actually thought it would happen to me (not to say that I gave up hope and stopped chasing my passion). Well, guess what?  It actually did happen to me this past

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Personal Brand Management – Review Your Personal Brand

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How To

As the end of the year approaches rapidly and everyone begins to eye days off and long weekends, this is a great time to reflect… on brand you.  Yes, take time to review what you accomplished this past year and start to think about changes in the year to come that will positively impact your

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Job Search Help: What Job Career Is For You After College – Part 2

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Job Search

This all goes back to the age old question: Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?  To get to the other side (of course). The answer should have footnote added: “it’s just that some chicken’s do it better than others”. The same goes in a career search.  Think about your last job search, or maybe

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Is Twitter A Good Tool For Your Personal Brand?

News

As you continually work to improve your personal brand, you are going to consider many social media tools to utilize.  Along this journey, I am sure that Twitter will be one of them.  The reason that Twitter is such a good outlet for you is that Twitter is a means to express both your professional

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How To Get The Best Jobs After College!

Job Search

Are you getting close to graduation?  Do you have any idea what career after college you would like?  There are some lucky college students who have it all figured out and know exactly what they want to do in their career.  Then there are others who think they know what to do after college (but

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Build Your Personal Brand and Make It Work

How To

Social networking and personal branding have opened the doors to so many of us (me included) to connect with far too many people I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to connect with previously.  Do you know what?  As I connect with these people I learn about what they do and share with them what I

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