Should I reach out to someone who's been looking at my LinkedIn profile that I’d be interested in working with? A few months ago, I noticed an executive checking out my page probably 3-5 times over the course of a month or so. I finally reached out to establish a more formal connection and told
Looking to improve your LinkedIn presence? Check out my guide to optimizing your LinkedIn profile for your dream career. From time to time, LinkedIn hosts updates on new product features for media and other professionals related to their space. For example, at a 2019 event, a senior software engineer shared tips on increasing profile views. This
As a recruiter for over 20 years, LinkedIn is one of the first sources I check when I do candidate research. This is true even when I hire for brand-name Fortune 500 companies or hot start-ups who have thousands of candidates in their proprietary applicant tracking systems. For a job seeker, LinkedIn has the advantage
Looking to improve your LinkedIn presence? Check out my guide to optimizing your LinkedIn profile for your dream career. At a “Recruiters, LinkedIn, and the Successful Job Search” event organized by the Barnard Professional Learning & Development Committee and hosted at the New York offices of LinkedIn, LinkedIn senior software engineer Michelle Ling shared four ways to increase
Looking to improve your LinkedIn presence? Check out my guide to optimizing your LinkedIn profile for your dream career. Interestingly, I got a question from a reader about how to explain an employment gap specifically for LinkedIn and not for a resume or just in general. I wonder which of these options applies to this
Looking to improve your LinkedIn presence? Check out my guide to optimizing your LinkedIn profile for your dream career. Recruiters use LinkedIn to hire people. I recently filled a six-figure job where the candidate (who beat out multiple referrals) was someone I originally sourced on LinkedIn. If you are actively looking, you certainly want to
Looking to improve your LinkedIn presence? Check out my guide to optimizing your LinkedIn profile for your dream career. At a recent workshop, I was asked for strategies to decide what LinkedIn invitations to accept. This notion of networking attention as a limited resource inspired my latest post for Forbes on guidelines for deciding how to
Looking to improve your LinkedIn presence? Check out my guide to optimizing your LinkedIn profile for your dream career. When people think of LinkedIn, the networking aspect is typically the first thing that comes to mind. This is important for your job search because networking is important to your search. Here are five other reasons
