Fact: LinkedIn users with complete profiles are 40 times more likely to receive opportunities through LinkedIn. (This is partly because complete profiles get ranked higher when someone does a search.) Fact: A recent Jobvite survey found that 93{60023c7b1960a5fb9dae172379ca3153ba00fa4679a2b03978f428523be766b5} of recruiters
Twitter is no longer speaking to LinkedIn, but LinkedIn is still speaking to Twitter
What’s the big whoop about the latest announcement re: the changes in Twitter’s policy of sharing tweets on LinkedIn? The official word from LinkedIn is below, and my take on this is that it’s a welcome user-experience change, and basically
How to Cultivate Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn
Have you jumped on the personal brand wagon yet? Personal branding is still a hot topic, so I thought I’d use this post to share some of the ways that you can use LinkedIn to cultivate and reinforce your personal
How to edit the Headline on your LinkedIn profile
Yesterday, I presented what I call a DIY LinkedIn Profile Audit at the SFPCN meet-up in San Francisco. It was a fun as well as interesting training session because I had an audience at all levels of LinkedIn knowledge. One
How to get referred for a job
In a recent Payscale.com post titled, “How Employee Referrals Facilitate Job Recruiting,” they share an infographic from Jobvite which illustrates the importance of employee referrals when it comes to the hiring process. I couldn’t resist the opportunity to share some
LinkedIn: Oops, they did it again
Yes, LinkedIn has done it again. They’ve taken a feature, that at first seemed to be something of an afterthought, and which also appeared to be released mainly just see what members will do with it, and they then apply
A Small Business Owner Enters a Bar
It’s no surprise that I’m a huge advocate for in-person networking, and I recognize that I cultivate more meaningful connections when I get out from behind my screens, but I recently had to comment on a Huffington Post article titled,”Networking
Does size matter? It does when it comes to your LinkedIn network
I thought I’d share a recent post I wrote for The Salary Reporter blog on PayScale.com because it’s getting a lot of attention online and just in case any blog followers haven’t see it yet. You can read Does Size
A few more LinkedIn Tips
I thought I’d said all I could say about LinkedIn, but, boy, was I wrong. Back by popular demand: 10 ways to use LinkedIn to help with your job search A Happier Networking Season with LinkedIn This is a good
Learning to Love LinkedIn Tip #11
I thought I was done with these LinkedIn tips, but apparently I am not. 🙂 I just received an email from LinkedIn about using their messaging system and InMails in particular. They shared 5 good tips on how to make the most
Has LinkedIn helped you too?
LinkedIn has helped me in my career and business too many ways to list and I know loads of other people that feel exactly the same way. And, because I’m a “friend” of LinkedIn, I was invited to participate in