July 2018 When you are invited for an interview, it’s always good to ask who will be interviewing you. Why? So you’re prepared! I can tell you from personal experience that it’s mentally jarring to think you are having a one-on-one interview, and you walk into a room that is set up with one empty chair facing a long table … Read More
June 2018 Have You Noticed that LinkedIn Is Changing the Design of the Top of Your Profile? Once again, LinkedIn surprised us with a new profile layout. Upon the discovery by my colleague Beth, she sent me an e-mail sharing her shock and disbelief because she had just finalized preparations of screenshots for a LinkedIn presentation the night before. Unfortunately, … Read More
May 2018 Your Headline Can Be a Little Longer with This Trick I recently changed my LinkedIn headline. It used to look like this (which is 91 characters with spaces): Career Counselor ✶, Career Coach ✶, LinkedIn Trainer ✶, Speaker ✶, Your link to career SUCCESS! In line with my current focus on empowering women in their careers, I spent time … Read More
April 2018 Check Out the LinkedIn Salary Feature LinkedIn rolled out a new salary feature in the fall of 2016. The feature started in the US, UK, and Canada with plans to expand it globally. You can access it here. It’s taking some time to gain traction, but it has the potential to become very powerful when more LinkedIn users provide their … Read More
March 2018 Create a LinkedIn Profile in Another Language Did you know that you can create your LinkedIn profile in more than one language? This could be a great idea if you (or your audience) speak more than one language. After logging into LinkedIn, click View profile, and then select Add profile in another language from the top right-hand corner. … Read More
February 2018 Learn More About Organizations Focused on Your Field of Interest on LinkedIn LinkedIn has a ton of groups and company pages on all sorts of topics. As an example, I found a few related to women in sports. I share them below, with brief explanations and links. Where you see quotation marks, I have shared the group’s stated description … Read More
January 2018 The more first-degree connections you have, the more reach you have in your network, and this can be very powerful. Remember that you automatically become a second-degree connection, to everyone else who is a first-degree connection of your first-degree connections. Because of this, the size of your whole network is exponentially increased when you add a new connection … Read More
December 2017 Commit 15 Minutes Each Weekday to LinkedIn A respected career colleague, Jim Peacock, wrote a great post this fall on how to spend 15 minutes a day on LinkedIn and make it count. I recommend you check it out. I have read many articles that suggest you can spend a minimal amount of time on LinkedIn each day, but … Read More
November 2017 LinkedIn rolled out a new salary feature about one year ago, though not many people seem to know about it yet. The feature started in the US, UK, and Canada with plans to widen it globally during 2017. You can access it here. LinkedIn is trying to gather and share salary information to help you make better career decisions. … Read More
October 2017 LinkedIn just made it much easier to set up a company page for your business. Previously LinkedIn required an email tied to a company domain name, which stopped many people from trying to do it. Now they have revamped things and made it very easy to set up a company page. If you go to this page in the Help … Read More