Tag Archives: Linkedin

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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Social Media Mistakes: Be Careful About ZoomInfo And MyLife

Strategy

I recently received an invitation to connect to a friend on MyLife.com. I’ve gotten these before, and I always politely refuse them, since I focus my social network connections on LinkedIn and Facebook. My friend wrote back to say that he hadn’t sent me that invitation – but wait, this is only the start of

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Branding Yourself, Everyone’s A Personal Branding Expert

News

For the past few months, I’ve been writing about personal branding, and especially how it can help job seekers. If you’ve followed me on this blog, you know that I don’t talk about theory, but about practice. People who see my presentations know I talk about the “big picture.” LinkedIn alone means very little, and

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Personal Branding Tips for Building Your Personal Brand Using Popular Social Networks

How To

Personal Branding Tips for Building Your Personal Brand Using Popular Social Networks

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50 Social Media Professional Sites for the Serious Student and Job Seeker

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News

Alisa Miller at CareerOverview.com posted an excellent article yesterday called Forget Facebook: 50 Social Sites for the Serious Student Job Seeker. Alisa’s post is an excellent source of career-building professional sites (beyond LinkedIn), social sites (beyond Facebook), employment sites (beyond Monster), as well as specific niche sites for finance, science, health and medicine. We encourage

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Online Reputation Tools: Usernamecheck.com Uncovers Where You Exist Online

Online reputation management

A service called UserNameCheck.com is proving that Google is only one tool employers and individuals can use to track you down online. Do you have inappropriate photos on your Livejournal page, but you aren’t worried because they don’t show up in the first 10 pages of Google results? They might still be found by employers.

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Personal Branding Tips – How to Promote Your Personal Brand Online

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Personal Branding Tips – How to Promote Your Personal Brand Online

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What is the Deal With the Career Resume?

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The all-hailed and all-dreaded resume is the traditionally omnipotent job hunting tool – a piece of paper where, in one page or less, you must prove that you are more qualified for a job than anyone else. In recent years, some people have predicted that the resume as we know it will fade out of

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