How many of you have a LinkedIn profile? Probably most of you…right? Now, how many of you have been contacted on LinkedIn by someone who found you through search? Probably just a few. But it doesn’t make sense huh? You groomed your profile so it had a compelling headline. You put the keywords you want [...]
As I write this, it’s tough not to be thinking about jobs. First, of course, the front page of the morning paper is about the loss of too young, Steve Jobs. Then, in my car on the radio, President Obama’s press conference pressing his jobs bill. Then, young Wall Street protesters clamoring for jobs to [...]
How do you feel when you enter a convention or networking event? Nervous, shy, uncomfortable? This distress is understandable. Typically, we rise through the ranks through our strong command of the technical elements of their jobs and a 24/7 focus on accomplishing our objectives. When challenged to move beyond our functional specialty and address the strategic issues facing the [...]
Getting noticed by headhunters on LinkedIn is a lot like marketing a fancy product. Imagine you are a shiny, one-of-a-kind item, but no one knows about you…yet. Your goal is to be discovered by someone that will find you useful and take care of you, but how do you do that? You look around and [...]
Make a list of the top 10 professions you dislike to deal with and you’ll be likely to find two always come to mind, dentists and salespeople. We all know why we dislike trips to the dentist but why do salespeople get a hard rep? After looking at the Harvard Business Review study of Seller’s [...]
This last weekend I was at one of the strangest yet entertaining conventions I’ve ever experienced, the Amazing Comic Con. I was hesitant to attend since I only enjoy some comic based movies and an occasional graphic novel, but a close friend really wanted to go and I knew at least it would be interesting.
Going into the event, I had no idea that I would come out of it with some remarkable observations about getting what you want.
We have had an exceptional year in 2010. We built a new site, revamped the blog, and found a great audience of readers. To begin the new year, I thought it would be good to share some of the top content we’ve developed over the year. The Story of the Devil’s Wedge This was a [...]
“I’ve been telling anyone who’ll listen that a job is just a unit of measurement of work. Meaning, you don’t need to be an employee to find fulfilling and secure work. You need to work to find work.
I also mean this in the sense that we sometimes think that we’re built for one career, when we’re really just a series of skill sets in search of fulfillment.”
“If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all the truly successful people I’ve met over a lifetime, I’d say it is the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts. I could lose all my money and all my factories, but leave me my contacts and I’ll be back as strong [...]
LinkedIn has a tool that not many people know about that can help people find the right connections and jobs to move up in their chosen career path. It’s called the LinkedIn Career Explorer. After some time using the program myself I thought it would be nice to develop a “how to” guide for others who may want to use it.
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