Several people recently asked me to review their LinkedIn profiles. After reviewing each one, I realized that each showed the same mistakes. They all prevent managers, recruiters, and prospective clients from finding them or clicking to read their profiles. Here are my LinkedIn profile tips to avoid the top five mistakes that keep you hidden. ...
Personal Branding
Top 2 Résumé Mistakes that Prevent Results (and How to Fix Them): Part 2
In Killer Résumé Mistakes: Part 1, I told you about my client, "Emma", who had applied for jobs online for two years without results before she came to me for help.
In this second article, I discuss Emma’s second killer résumé mistake and how to fix it. ...
Top 2 Résumé Mistakes that Prevent Results (and How to Fix Them): Part 1
My client, Emma, had applied for jobs online for two years without results. She had plenty of excellent experience, and someone should have called her for an interview. No one did.
When I looked at her résumé, I knew what the problem was. She, like many people, followed obsolete guidelines for writing résumés. She made ...
Personal Branding: 5 Ways to Create a Personal Brand Online
According to career guru Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute (2014), with 69 percent of employers searching for your name online, Google is your second resume.
Google is important for personal branding
Branding is an employer’s impression of you, whether online, in print, or in person. To have a consistent and ...
Create Engaging PowerPoint Presentations
How often have you been to PowerPoint presentations or webinars where you didn't know whether to read the slides or listen to the speaker? When I attend such webinars, I often just copy of the slides and listen to the speaker "on the side". I don't feel like I'm missing anything.
If this how you ...