Guest post by Jesse Langley - Using LinkedIn is becoming a growing trend in job searching. If you look at very many LinkedIn profiles though, you’ll begin to see that a lot of folks aren’t harnessing its true potential. LinkedIn isn’t a substitute for a stellar resume. Rather it works best when it complements your resume. Think of your resume and your LinkedIn profile as two equally important team members of your job search team. You’re going to rely on them both, but they are performing specific roles which, if done correctly, will be complementary.
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Last week I went sailing on the Chesapeake Bay with some friends. As a rule of thumb, we don’t speak about work when we go off shore, but still, a work related comment may slip every now and then.
On Saturday, one of us made a comment about the open positions in our company and the candidates that were applying for them. Martin -AKA Popeye, pictured above-, an experienced sailor who used to be a submarine crew member for the US navy told us of an interview he had done some days before. The applicant, in the hobbies section of his resume had listed “keen sailor” as one of them. Martin couldn’t let the opportunity to build up rapport pass by and brought the topic up only to find that the candidate couldn’t tell port from starboard.
Before you start looking for a job, you need to create your personal brand so by the time you need that job, the scenario would be set up. The day you decide to get a new (or first) job all you need to do is start your personal brand’s engine and let it run. A tweet, a status update on LinkedIn or a blog post expressing your desire to work for X,Y and/or Z is all you need to attract employers’ attention.
This post is a product from the collaboration project that Andrew C. Abraham and myself started a few months ago. By Andrew C. Abraham.- It’s intern season. Many of the companies that I’m speaking to now are so busy with interns during this summer. I personally don’t have any internships ...
Crisis in chinese means both threat and opportunity at the same time. Graduating fits this definition perfectly. It can be the opportunity to fulfill years of dreams or achieving life goals, and at the same time, the transition from student to professional may become a frustrating experience. Finishing college and enduring the ...
I’ve been doing a lot of job interviews lately. Evidently, the market being flooded with applicants is one of the side effects of the crisis. My organization, instead of laying people off has been steadily hiring and this is due to the high turnover rate of the industry. As any ...
