Hate them or not, LinkedIn endorsements are here to stay. Dismissed by many as something as easy to do as a Facebook “like,” many career industry experts and recruiters saw this new feature as pure fluff that made trading endorsements akin to “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine.” But social media experts have… Read more »
Digital Footprint Alert: What Job Seekers Need to Know… NOW
Digital footprints are increasingly factoring into the job seeker sprint to get hired. Not having one means not getting on the radar… and is equivalent to being seen as irrelevant. Dice.com recently unveiled their Open Web platform which provides an insight into how the big data future has now arrived onto the doorstep of both… Read more »
Career Q&A: “What Do I Need to Know About Changing Industries?”
Most working professionals will confess that their careers have taken widely divergent paths from the original goal… and these shifts include changing industries. And for some people, their work background looks like a checkerboard of hop-scotch moves that seem, from the 10,000-foot level, almost impossible to have even imagined from the start. But below the… Read more »
Don’t Ask For A Recommendation If You Haven’t Earned It
Today, I got another one. That “one” being a request on LinkedIn to provide a recommendation to someone I am connected to… but have never worked with in a way that allowed me to witness, first-hand, their abilities. Sigh. Why do people put their personal brand in jeopardy with such a thoughtless click? When someone… Read more »