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LinkedIn Keywords on Career Explorer on Github
LinkedIn has been beta testing career paths on Github since the fall of 2020. The Career Explorer platform matches your skills to various job titles. The skills are keywords, which you can find in LinkedIn’s database. You can access the Career Explorer platform here. Enter the city of the closest metropolitan area to you. Then…
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How Are Millennials &; Gen Z Using LinkedIn?
How are millennials and Gen Z using LinkedIn? Most likely like anyone else – as job seekers, business owners, veterans, students, or employed individuals. Millennials were born 1980 – 2000, while Gen Z, or the Net Gen, were born after 1997 (Brown, 2011; Social Security Administration, n.d.). They are connecting with their colleagues, friends, and…
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Captain Obvious on Networking on LinkedIn
Ahoy mateys! We’re one year into the pandemic. How’s networking going on LinkedIn or did that party ship leave without you because you missed the boat? You DO have a LinkedIn profile, right? LinkedIn now has about 740 million members in 200 countries and is “the world’s largest professional network” and your electronic Rolodex. It…
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Are You “Woke” on LinkedIn?
Are you “woke” on LinkedIn? What’s that mean? Many think the term relates to social injustice issues, but it began with a totally different meaning. The original meaning was that you are an up-to-date and well-informed individual. As the past tense of “wake,” “woke” now relates to racism and social justice issues. The term “woke”…
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Finding the Right LinkedIn Keywords Establishes Clarity Across Business and Career Models
Self-employed? Unemployed? Employed? Confuzzled? Conundrum? Not clear of where you stand in your career to develop the right keywords for LinkedIn? It may be time to self-reflect and record your thoughts in writing on a one page business model. ENTREPRENEURS AND SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS If this category fits you, you might want to use the…
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How to Write Good Headlines for LinkedIn Articles
Writing a good headline for a LinkedIn article also applies to writing a good headline for a blog, catchy event title, or email. Several resources are below. If you are a recent reader of my content, you might have missed the article How and Why LinkedIn Publishing. In that article, I mentioned Coschedule Headline Analyzer.…
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Finding Emails Not Listed on LinkedIn
How do you find someone’s email if there is no listing on their LinkedIn profile? It’s perplexing why people do not include their email and phone. Shouldn’t it be easy to contact someone for a job or to do business with them? Why do some people make it so doggone hard to do business with…
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How I Landed a Job After Networking on Clubhouse
If you think it’s crazy to network on Clubhouse and land a job, think again. The interview happened the next morning at 8 AM, followed by an offer. On February 3rd, I was listening in a Clubhouse room while I was making dinner. The conversation led to Erik Corzberg telling his story about how he…
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Should your Clubhouse and LinkedIn BIOs match?
Clubhouse keeps gaining popularity, and it’s inspiring at the same time that it’s a time suck, though a potential lead magnet for entrepreneurs. However, it is not just for entrepreneurs. There are clubs for job seekers, nonprofits, social media, hobbies, and vocational and personal interests. Seek, and ye shall find. You will also find celebrities…
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Are You Part of LinkedIn’s Clubhouse?
The hottest trend on LinkedIn is not part of LinkedIn, but Clubhouse is what the cool kids are discussing, and you can find it by following #clubhouse. You will find celebrities participating on this 24/7 platform, and you know they are not incognito, as everyone needs to use their real name. The Clubhouse platform is…
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Networking On & Off LinkedIn Requires a Positive Mindset
Even though the pandemic has wreaked havoc on jobs, businesses, mental health, finances, and more, no one wants to hang with Debbie or Donnie Downer. No one wants to help Negative Nancy or Ned. When networking with others in online meetings, on LinkedIn, or other social media, you need to leave your pessimistic attitude, words,…
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How to Add Unicode to Your LinkedIn Profile
Unicode is used to encode letters, symbols, and digits with values applied to different programs and platforms as a universal character standard. Although it is not part of the LinkedIn platform, this technique can be utilized in LinkedIn or on other social media to change from the standard plain font available. You cannot bold, underline,…
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How to Check Your Keywords for LinkedIn: Part 2
There are numerous ways to analyze keywords for your resume, LinkedIn profile, website, blog, social media posts, etc. Let’s review more tools! In last week’s article, I mentioned using the Jobs tab on the LinkedIn profile to look up keywords, as well as Google Trends. Today we will explore some other ways, including using some…
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How to Check Your Keywords on LinkedIn
Employed? Self-employed? Unemployed? Veteran? Student? You might want to optimize your LinkedIn profile with the best keywords if you want to be found. If, for example, you are an attorney, like Hanan Isaacs, Esq., focus on keywords in the following areas: So how can you find out which keyword might be better than another? I…
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Promote Your Freelance, Side Gig, or Side Hustle on LinkedIn
If you are a freelancer, participate in the gig economy, or have a side hustle, how do you get found on Linkedin? Optimize your profile with keywords! Many folks may want to give themselves a title like “Owner,” “President,” or “CEO” of ABC Company, but is that the best thing to do? If someone does…
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How to Support Nonprofits on LinkedIn
By Lynne Williams Nonprofits have been hit during COVID. They can send email campaigns and post on social media to reach potential donors to highlight their missions. Websites, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms can all be used to share stories of impact for #GivingTuesday which is on December 1, 2020. What is…
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Blogging to Tell Your Story On and Off LinkedIn
By Lynne Williams Everyone has a story to tell, and it can be good, bad, or ugly. There may be happy or sad endings. LinkedIn is one of many places to share your story. On LinkedIn, you can share your story by creating a post, an article, a document, or a video. If you share…
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How to Start Your Profile on LinkedIn
With over 722+ million people on LinkedIn as part of the world’s largest business networking platform, many people are still not on it. How do you start your profile? Click here for some screenshots and step-by-step instructions of a recent profile set up (with private information blacked out). Ken – if you want to embed…
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