Update Your LinkedIn Profile Status Often, but Don’t Self Promote

Blatant self-promotion is bad form on social networks, said social marketing expert Veronica Fielding in the article “How to Build and Nurture a LinkedIn Profile Network” for TheLadders. Updating your profile’s status, however, with informative article links, industry event notices and posting community-centric information regularly is a great way to stay visible and be viewed [...]

How to Write a LinkedIn Profile Summary

There are two things you can be sure of when executive recruiters discover your LinkedIn profile: They expect to see a summary, and they expect to learn a little about who you are, wrote Kris Dunn, HR expert and blogger of  HR Capitalist.
Job titles and dates of employment alone on LinkedIn will not cut it. [...]

How to Use Your Professional Network Over and Over Again

Make sure you have something to offer every contact every time you reach out to them, said John Crant, a career expert and founder of SelfRecruiter.com.

Tapping your professional network to find a job means tapping many of the same contacts over and over again. To ensure you don’t outlast your welcome, maintain a two-way relationship, [...]

LinkedIn Anoints Twitter “Professional”

LinkedIn announced today that it would sync it’s status updates with Twitter and, in a way, anointed Twitter as a professional social network.
According to the New York Times: “The partnership with LinkedIn affirms Twitter’s role as a network for professional conversation. More than social sites like Facebook, people use Twitter to keep abreast of professional [...]

Too Old to Tweet

Are you tool old for Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn? No, and it’s one of the worst reasons to eschew social media in your job search, according to Josh Waldman, a social media career consultant and author of the Careerealism blog.
The three excuses that most often keep job seekers from using social networks in their [...]

Are Bigger Facebook and LinkedIn Networks Better Networks?

For all the effort you put into expanding your network on LinkedIn and “friending” colleagues and acquaintances of acquaintances on Facebook, the bigger, broader network may not be helping you or the recruiters trying to find you.
Networking should be about quality, not quantity, wrote Jon Picoult, the founder of Watermark Consulting in Simsbury, Conn., in [...]

Research Job Applications to Make Your Case in a Resume and Job Interview

Research is essential to finding a job, said Rafe Gomez, a radio DJ turned career adviser and author.
Gomez, author of “What’s In It for Me?” a book he wrote while conducting his own job search after his previous employer, CD101.9 in New Jersey, changed format and he was laid off. In an interview with NY1’s [...]

When Your Web Trail and a Recruiter’s Reputation Collide

Recruiters are worried that applicants might ruin their reputations and have turned to social networks to find embarrassing details that might compromise them later.
Recruiters often consider their reputation on the line with every hire, even months into employment, said Kris Dunn, who writes the HR Capitalist blog. He and others usually do their best to [...]

Recruiters Using Social Networks to Build Candidate Pipelines

Are social networks worth your time?
It might be easier to answer that question, if you asked recruiters if social networks are worth their time? They are worth a recruiters time, said David Szarzy, an expert on recruiting and founder of the Recruiter Academy. In fact, social networks are a time saver for recruiters building a [...]

Despite Facebook and LinkedIn, “Network” is Still a Verb

The word “network” is both a noun and a verb. It’s something you have and something you do. We seemed to understand that better before the Internet and Facebook and LinkedIn.
In the days before online social networks, networking meant you were actively pursuing connections and adding new contacts. It probably meant you were attending events, [...]