You can now beef up your LinkedIn profile by adding any volunteer experience, a list of causes that you care about, and any organizations you support. After all, volunteering is as good for your career as it is for those you help. And your volunteer efforts … [Read more...]
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Featuring guest bloggers at your blog is one of the best ways to create content when you're on vacation, or the idea well is dry, or you've simply run out of steam. I wish I'd receive 10 times the number of pitches I do from guest bloggers. Today, as I was looking for interesting content to tweet, I ended up at Arik Hanson's [Read more...]
Tips for updating your LinkedIn profile
By Joan Stewart
Too many of us build out our LinkedIn profile, and then once we see the blue bar that says "100% profile completeness," we forget to return to it periodically for updates.
Job-hunters, publicity-seekers: Wake up your boring bios
Boring bios are more potent than sleeping pills.
Yet you read them all the time in people's online press rooms, in their books, and even on the mini-profiles they write on their Twitter and Facebook pages.
Sometimes job-hunters include a … [Read more...]