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Your elevator pitch is vital for sparking interest in what you or your organization does, and your written and verbal elevator pitches can align.
Your…
Accessibility to LinkedIn and social media posts should be top of mind. Content that is accessible to everyone is the goal of best practices.
Although…
Do you have a USP, PBS, or VPS on LinkedIn? Unique Selling Proposition, Personal Branding Statement, and Value Proposition Statement are the full terms for…
Protecting your LinkedIn profile from bad actors is vital to maintaining your online reputation and privacy, and there are several steps you can take.
Everyone…
In a continued effort to keep the local business community informed, SCORE Bucks County will offer five free webinars, as well as a small business…
SCORE Bucks County’s recent Women Building Businesses conference drew women entrepreneurs from as far away as Washington D.C., and as close as Bucks…
If you have a valid government ID and are in the U.S. with a U.S. phone, you might be able to be verified…
SCORE Bucks County will be hosting their Women Building Businesses Conference on June 14 after a three-year hiatus.
The fourth annual event features a…
Want to know how to add some fun factors to your LinkedIn posts? You can add emojis or Unicode or vary your formatting and writing…
Influence Digest, an online publication that provides high-level knowledge on LinkedIn marketing strategies while highlighting the best tips for a healthy lifestyle, has named…
In a continued effort to keep the local business community informed, SCORE Bucks County will offer four free webinars in March.
On March 7, SCORE…
What is career development? Why does career development matter? Who is it for? Is it available on LinkedIn or elsewhere? Where can you find resources…
If you need a post idea for LinkedIn, share your impact on Martin Luther King Day of Service by describing your activities. What did you…
If you have good content on your résumé, you can use it on LinkedIn. That will be the beginning of your personal career website…
Have you ever been homeless? I have two times, but my story is a little different. This is a vulnerable story I chose to publish…
Have you ever been in a workplace where you have not said or heard profanity? Could it happen pre-employment?
As a hiring manager, can…
Ah! Living large! The United States is a big country, and so many advertisements emphasize physical attractiveness and thinness with pencil-thin women and buff…
Here is your annual reminder that September is “International Update Your Résumé Month.” Are you managing your career and updating your career documents?
As…
For the funemployed, being unemployed brings a smile, a new way of thinking about the work/life balance (overriding the idea of career as “be…
When should you start or end managing your career? Why not begin with your first work or internship experience and keep going until your retirement…
Do you need to do a targeted search for someone or something on LinkedIn or the Internet? Have you ever tried a Boolean search or…
Job seekers need to have strategies, tactics, and career management resources to organize their job search, whether beginning their first career as a recent grad…
“The new normal every company must accept to be successful is to create an emotionally safe working environment marked by respect, acceptance, and celebration of…
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” (Unknown). It’s like drinking from a fire hydrant with so much tech…
We live in a pandemic where technology skills are essential to work in a remote world, yet many digital immigrants (Gen X and boomers) lack…
If you are a working adult whether unemployed, self-employed, or employed, and you engage in meeting people, you need to have an elevator pitch…
If MLK had the social audio technology in 1963 that we have today, he would have reached so many more people than those who heard…
Poll results are in on how people found their last W-2 job. Results are not surprising. The winner is networking, of course! But wait…
Ding Dong! LinkedIn Calling! LinkedIn just added a bell feature. Read on for terrific tips about music for videos, copyright, and other bell trivia. Learn…
Whether you are an introvert, extrovert, ambivert, or anything but a recluse or hermit, you typically interact with people in person and/or online. It…
Here is an overview about Clubhouse, a phone app that is taking social media by storm. There are also 17 questions answered about Clubhouse to…
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The About Section on LinkedIn can have up to 2600 characters. Are you formatting it so it is skimmable and scannable for human attention spans…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Everyone has a story to tell, and it can be good, bad, or ugly. There may be happy or sad endings. 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…
Did you know as a business owner, you can enable “Open for Business” on your profile? Providing info about your business will…
The LinkedIn algorithm seems to be mysterious and ever-changing. Some recent research from the Netherlands may help you with your LinkedIn…
Want to improve your online host skills or add a fun factor to your virtual events? I have several new hacks and…
The Out of the Box Veteran Employment Strategies career panel event is on Friday, October 16 starting at 9 AM, so register on Eventbrite. Hire…
Should you be posting anything to do with politics or any political commentary on LinkedIn? Only if you want to risk destroying…
As a business leader, you may have heard you need to sharpen the saw, including educating yourself. RSVP for a John Maxwell…
It’s free and easy to set up a LinkedIn company page for your small business, as a solopreneur, or self-employed…
As a small business owner, whether you are a for-profit or a nonprofit, what do you do when you want to…
Are you sending a sales pitch when connecting with people on LinkedIn, or are you making an effort to start building a…
Have you ever been WOWed by a speaker? I was just WOWed! Running hundreds of events a year, I hear a plethora…
Don’t shoot the messenger, especially if your name is Karen, Becky, Caroline, Patty, Gail, or Ann. Knowledge is power. Here’s…
What is your cattitude on LinkedIn? With a little imagination, you can find spots and stripes on LinkedIn, though we’ll substitute…
Ubuntu, a South African Zulu word, is a philosophy of the spirit of humanity. It means “I am who I am because…
Often, I am asked if people should include their resume on their LinkedIn profile. It depends on what YOU want to do…
By Lynn Williams
Solopreneur? Entrepreneur? Small business owner? Growing business? Startup? Side-gigger? Side hustler? Franchise owner? Thinking about starting a business?
Have you optimized…
Living between our dashes from birth to death, we should consider ourselves a work in progress to become more linguistically and culturally…
The Jeopardy answer is … be like Nike as Just Do It! The Jeopardy question is, What if I am scared to write…
There are a couple of key hashtags being used on LinkedIn for job seekers and these are #ONO and #opentowork
#ONO stands…
What are your pronouns? Are you using them on LinkedIn or elsewhere? Do you even know what this means? Why are there…
In case you are wondering, the portmanteau #Juneteenth is a hashtag used on LinkedIn. People are writing articles and including this hashtag…
We said: Black Lives Matter. Never said: Only black lives matter. We know: All lives matter. We just need your help with…
How did we forget lessons we learned in kindergarten and the Golden Rule? How do we learn to be better? Do better…
How do you rebrand when making a career pivot? How do you start building your brand and marketing yourself in your future…
What do you do when you can’t, or don’t want to, do what you used to do? Pivot, of course…
Nearly 75% of resumes are never seen by human eyes when submitted through applicant tracking systems for online job applications. Why? Formatting…
A value proposition letter is a brief statement of 100-150 words that succinctly explains what your unique qualities, skills, and accomplishments…
QR codes can be very useful for driving people to your LinkedIn profile, a presentation, an article, and more. Add them to…
Furloughed? Downsized? Re-orged? Laid off? No job? Dusting off your career documents just in case?
It’s never too late to manage your career…
High school students over 16, college students, and educators in both K-12 and higher education need to be on LinkedIn. Teachers…
Feeling macro and micro scared with fear of the unknown? Now is a time to build and grow your LinkedIn network and…
Would you be thrilled to be found for work as a jobseeker or entrepreneur because you increased your keywords in your LinkedIn headline? If employed…
Beware of XXX-rated porn trolls on your online meetings. I attended a meeting with a Zoom link that was publicly posted…
You can make a word cloud for your LinkedIn banner or for an article.The more frequently that words are listed, the…
Knowledge is power. You don’t know what you don’t know, so engage in continuous lifelong learning to improve yourself and…
If you want to advance in your career or need to explore careers as a new graduate or reinvention, you might want…
If you have not seen a change on your profile yet, it’s coming! LinkedIn is rolling out a new Featured Section…
As the old English adage goes … a picture is worth a thousand words (even though this has been “plagiarized and paraphrased” many times.
According to…
“Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing”, according to Vince Lombardi. Do you have a winning LinkedIn profile and how…
Did you know there was a LinkedIn directory where you can look yourself up? When I discovered this little factoid recently, I was on L…
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”– Benjamin Franklin
As a young professional, you have more years…
“Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn…
Some students finish their college coursework in December instead of May. If you think they are all prepared to be jobseekers, then…
You got that end of year bonus … or not. You are wondering if you should stay or go … or not. You would…
What do you do when one person says something to you that makes a very deep impression? You write about it and…
Hashtags on LinkedIn seem to be further evolving with changes to the algorithm. A previous article was published on “How to Create…
One cannot deny the fact that a lot of women like to get together with other women and just talk. Perhaps that…
#GivingTuesday is on Dec 3, 2019 and it’s a chance for nonprofit organizations to bring awareness to their missions on LinkedIn.
If the organization…
In November, we can reflect on all the things we are grateful for, including some of the little things in life, like…
“People who volunteer tend to experience fewer aches and pains.”
In addition, “people 55 and older who volunteer for two or more organizations are significantly…
So exactly what is a veteran? “A veteran – whether active duty, discharged, retired or reserve – is someone who, at one point in…
It’s my birthday next week … on election day (so get out and vote) … and hence, my inspiration to share with you…
LinkedIn has rolled out another new feature. You can now post an event from your desktop or on the app on your…
LinkedIn is rolling out a new feature for “Open to Job Opportunities” that can be hidden and seen only by recruiters or can be publicly…
Did you know you could make a voice recorded message on LinkedIn up to one minute? It’s a dictated message; not voice to text…
Do you realize that there are over 645 million people on LinkedIn and how important it is to be on this platform…
Did you know that you can enhance your LinkedIn profile by adding media under the About section as well as under your Work Experience?
You…
September is International Update Your Resume Month, so as a public service announcement, this is a reminder to manage your career and keep your resume…
If you have a free LinkedIn account, you may have received a warning that you were approaching your commercial use limit of…
Do you read the paragraphs on people’s LinkedIn profiles? If the answer is no, then others are not reading your paragraphs either.
We are…
Veterans seeking work or who are in career transition are the focus of a special career event to provide insight, inspiration and networking on Tuesday…
By Katie Kohler
“Something magical happens when you hit 500,” Lynne Williams says when she hears a LinkedIn is approaching the milestone mark.
Williams, right…
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