Job-Hunt Intelligence - LinkedIn Tip of the Week

Published: Tue, 07/18/17

Job-Hunt Intelligence

By Susan P. Joyce

On this page, you'll find tips published weekly about how to use LinkedIn effectively and smartly for your career and your job search. If you have questions about some aspect of using LinkedIn that are not answered in Job-Hunt's LinkedIn Job Search Guide, please send your question to [email protected].

July 16, 2017 -- Look Smart When Using LinkedIn's Messaging

I've received so many messages inside of LinkedIn recently from job seekers who are not making a great impression with how they use LinkedIn's message app.

The problem stems from two things:

  • The default assumption the LinkedIn app makes that whenever someone hits the Enter / Return key, they want their message to be sent.
  • The habit most of us have -- hitting the Enter / Return key to go to the next line in a message or other elecronic document.

The result is that people send "messages" they don't intend to send. More than once this month, I have received three or four (sometimes more) consecutive messages from the same person:

  1. "Hi Susan,"
  2. "Can you help me with..."
  3. "Regards,"
  4. Their name

This makes the person sending them look rather demanding or inexperienced. Neither of those is a good impression to leave, particularly with someone who doesn't know you well.

Here's how to change that!

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By Meg Guiseppi

You're suddenly facing a job search, so you rush right to your resume (if you can find it) to update it. But wait! You may not be ready to tackle your resume yet.

If it's been several years since you revisited your resume, or if you're one of those lucky people who never needed a resume, you may not be aware of how much resumes have changed in the past several years.

Before working on your resume, re-think how to update it, so that you'll create a career marketing document that will optimally do its job – land you interviews.

Have you been paying attention to all the talk these days about personal branding? How your brand should be built around what makes you a good fit for your target employers? How resume branding can help you clearly identify and communicate what differentiates you from your job-seeking competitors?

Most importantly, you may not understand that step one in job search is NOT diving right into writing your resume.

Step one in a successful job search is laying out the groundwork with targeting and branding. Once you've done that, you'll have the information about your target audience and yourself that you'll need to write a compelling resume and to network and interview effectively.

Here are 10 tips to build an interview-generating, brand-reinforcing resume:

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By Meg Guiseppi

Blogging is one of the most powerful ways to demonstrate your subject matter expertise, and communicate something of your personality and good-fit qualities for the jobs you’re seeking ... that is, your personal brand.

But setting up and maintaining your own blog may not be a realistic endeavor for you. Fortunately, LinkedIn offers an excellent option to building your own brand: LinkedIn offers a long-form publishing (or blogging) platform formerly known as LinkedIn Pulse.

Posts on the LinkedIn Blogging Platform

Using this platform, you’ll reap many of the benefits of having your own blog, with almost none of the headaches typically involved.

To publish on LinkedIn's blogging platform, all you’ll have to do is:

  • Write interesting content on the topics you know.
  • Add a compelling title.
  • Proofread it well several times.
  • Post the content on the site. It will be saved automatically.
  • Hit “Publish” when you’re ready, and, where prompted, add a sentence describing the post using relevant keywords with hashtags. [More about using hashtags in my article, Promote Your Personal Brand on #LinkedIn with Hashtags.]

Bingo! You have published a post on LinkedIn.

Now share the post in your other social media accounts.

What’s So Great About Blogging on LinkedIn?

Just like running your own blogsite, you’ll be building your personal brand ... demonstrating your subject matter expertise and thought leadership, and communicating your personality and good-fit qualities for the employers you’re targeting.

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