As I work my way through 2017’s version of What Color is Your Parachute? (making note that there is already a 2018 version that I need to get my hands on) I spent some time with the section containing Dick Bolles’ thoughts on LinkedIn. This section in the 2017 version doesn’t really seem to have …
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If you are looking to learn how to make more of LinkedIn – they offer free online training to their users, looking to make the most of the affordances of the medium! There are a series of pre-recorded webinars on the following topics: Also, there are also live webinars – for which you can sign …
When you are just beginning a job search, it is at times very useful to just pick something. As we have been discussing, there are many ways of conceptualizing work – many “ways in” to think about the world of work, so let’s think about how we might use this site to help pick one …
LinkedIn, the World’s Largest Professional Network, is fast becoming one of the most important ways to connect (with employers, partners, mentors, former colleagues, employees, subject matter experts and clients) online. As such, the interactions which take place here (or which could but don’t) are increasingly important to understand. Even if you are not using it, …
Using LinkedIn as a jobseeker Company Pages on LinkedIn contain at least three sources of information that are invaluable to the jobseeker and not easily found elsewhere: 1. Who else is following the organization. It is important to know: Whose radar screens have they pinged on? What does this reveal about their reach? How do they connect …
You can’t really know who you might be talking to on LinkedIn. However, because you can’t really write anything without knowing who it is that you are writing for, what we sociolinguists think of in terms of Audience Design, you will need to make a decision about audience for your profile. Pick one! Choose an …
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Your LinkedIn tagline is precious real estate. The beginnings of things are very important, and here is no exception. With your tagline, you position yourself – As Harre (2010) states in his work on positioning: “one can position oneself or be positioned as e.g. powerful or powerless, confident or apologetic, dominant or submissive, definative or …
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