How Business Recommendations on LinkedIn Can Help Candidates

How Business Recommendations on LinkedIn Can Help Candidates Have you noticed just how many sites allow users to leave recommendations or reviews online? 10 reviews for this, 5 people recommend that, and this trend is becoming ever more popular. Many ecommerce product and service websites are now flooded with user generated reviews to provide their users with confidence in purchasing products and services on offer. This functionality cleverly aims to help create engagement and build the relationship between the customer and seller. LinkedIn is no exception to this trend. Although you may not be aware of this yet, LinkedIn is allowing organisations to promote specific products and services it offers on the company services tab. The company pages tab on LinkedIn is currently in beta stage. It’s quite probable that LinkedIn will be making more changes and drawing more attention to this particular aspect of its network. Benefits for candidates Job seekers can take advantage of this feature when engaging with a recruitment agency. Provided an agency has its services displayed, job seekers are able to leave a valid recommendation or review their experience with that agency, whether good, bad or ugly. This allows other job seekers to acquire a credible opinion of the agency, and can help a job seeker to evaluate their decision whether to engage with a recruitment agency or not. Utilising the power of your network LinkedIn’s recommendations feature highlights any recommendations from within your network, allowing job seekers to see what their direct connections have to say about the agency in question. This is a powerful feature that enables a jobseeker to view a particular comment, let’s say from a friend or associate within their LinkedIn network that may add further credibility of the product or service in question. Benefits for brands Organisations can take advantage of the LinkedIn products services tab by empowering their customers to leave honest feedback on their products/services. Positive reviews can strengthen the credibility of your company and also help to reach and attract new audiences. I’m sure you can think of other valuable uses for recommendations to promote your brand! Please feel free to head over to the ARM products and services page on LinkedIn to view a page in action and see what our candidates have to say about us. Sam Hill is the Online Social Media marketing executive for  Advanced Resource Managers  (ARM), one of the UK’s major technical recruitment firms and also provide a wider range of client solutions such as Training, RPO, under the ARM consulting  brand. ARM employ in excess of 160 staff and have a turnover of circa £100m.

Resume Writing For Google Job Search

Resume Writing For Google Job SearchFor a computer or internet professional to enter a Google job search, it requires a proper resume. When applying for a Google work opportunity, it is good to prepare a resume. Even if you are not interested in a specific position or just need a bit of additional experience, a resume can get you noticed. In this article, I will explain some of the reasons why it is important to prepare a resume and what to include.Getting noticed by a search for a Google job opportunity might take some time. Even if you get an application, your resume is a must have. It is very important to show the potential employer that you are dedicated to learning and earning your salary.Resumes are created to provide information to the employer about you. The information could be anything that you would like to add. To get the information, you must have your resume ready. Many times, when the time comes to do an interview, the employer will ask for more information on your bac kground. With this in mind, you must have a well written resume.First, your resume should include information on your education and work experience. You should put your name, and date of birth, at the top of your resume. Your name, address, phone number, and email should also be included. The rest of the information can be in the first paragraph. If there is information about your skills and experience, then you can put it in the second paragraph.When searching for a Google job, some of the requirements are a background check and reference checks. There is no need to show your criminal background, but you should include any work done by third parties. A Google reference check is very important to the employer.A Google resume should have your contact information. This is because if you want to continue contacting the company, then you must have this information. If you have a mobile phone number listed, you should use it. If you want to leave a voice mail message, then leave that as well. A personal note about you should also be included.When preparing a resume, it is best to make it as simple as possible. You can place bullet points in this format: Title; Experience; Education; Training; General Job Description; Skills/Experience; Results. The two spaces in between the bullet points are where you should add in your references.There are many ways to prepare a resume, but Google resumes are one of the easiest to create. You can make your resume as hard or as easy as you like.

Can Personal Brands Use Facebook Ads - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Can Personal Brands Use Facebook Ads - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Yes. With a few tweaks, that is. First of all, you should know that Facebook Ads don’t work with personal profiles, so let’s get that out of the way. As a solopreneur or professional looking to utilize Facebook Ads to grow your reach, you will require a Facebook business page. The information you fill out for this page is what will let audiences know what your business/profession is all about. Make sure to highlight your strengths as a business and as a person.   List your awards, notables and accomplishments. Once you a clean looking, well organized and written business page, Facebook Ads are an absolute must. How do you engage audiences? It first starts with what your purpose is for venturing into ads is. You don’t want to be an aimless brand simply advertising because it’s what everyone’s doing. Sit down, evaluate your brand, and figure out a reason for investing your time and resources into Facebook Ads. When you have a clear reason, crafting marketing copy and sourcing the right images, videos, and links to use with the Facebook Ads becomes easier. It also helps if you know the kind of audience you want to target (targeted audience vs at-large audience). A targeted audience comprises of people you know (or who know you) and are more likely to engage in your content. An at-large audience on the other hand, is the general population on Facebook, who are less likely to take the actions you wish for. Being a personal brand, you probably have a personal page or website that speaks more to what you do/who you are. You want to tie-in the Ad you come create with this personal “landing page.” After audiences see you Ad, you want them to know more about you. A link to your personal page is encouraged, and should lead to a professionally designed page that is appealing. How does your personal brand benefit? First of all, the potential for exposure is massive with Facebook. With over 200 million unique visitors each month, your Ad can be viewed a whole lot of people you never imagined. They say the average Facebook user has around 500-600 friends. If you target around 20 people with your Ad, you have the potential to reach another 1000, who have the potential to reach their 600 or so friends. So really, the exposure is exponential, and great for your personal brand. Facebook Ads allow you to carry out targeted advertising, which is inexpensive in itself and can be affordable to you in the long run. Really, even if your budget is constrained, you’ll very likely find a package that will suit you fine. Facebook ads allow you to be creative. Suppose you want to impress a group of executives you would wish to meet (or have an upcoming meeting with).   With their email information handy, all you need to do is upload that email list to Facebook, and target them (and their companies) with your Ads. You can set the number of times you want this particular group to see your post, update, picture or even unpublished post.   For example, I recently attended a couple of conferences. For one conference, I was speaking so I promoted my session via Facebook ads by making sure my post was visible to those who attended or were planning to attend the conference. For the other conference, I was merely attending but I knew who all the speakers were going to be plus I had access to their email addresses (after all, they were promoting themselves as speakers at the event and were readily sharing their contact info).   I uploaded their emails into Facebook and created a targeted list of people to see “my face and posts” prior to the event to make the in-person connection happen more readily since I looked “familiar”.   The perception out there is that only medium, big-sized businesses, and product centered brands are in the best shape to utilize Facebook Ads. While they might have the resources to spend a little more on such a campaign, your personal brand will benefit greatly by having its own Facebook Ads campaign. You can target the people you want to reach, be more creative with your posts, and work within your budget, all while having one of Facebook’s greatest features at your disposal.

BBC School Report Work Experience Opportunity University of Manchester Careers Blog

BBC School Report Work Experience Opportunity University of Manchester Careers Blog BBC News School Report is an RTS award-winning journalism initiative which sees 11 to 16-year-old students make reports for a real audience about the stories that matter to them. The project culminates in an annual News Day on Thursday 21 March 2013 when all participating schools turn their classrooms into newsrooms and work to a 2pm deadline to complete their video, audio and written reports and publish them on their school websites, to which the BBC link. In addition, national, regional and local BBC programmes and services feature School Reporters and their work across every BBC platform. In 2013, more than 800 schools across the UK will be making and broadcasting news as part of the project. The School Report team are looking for a student with journalism experience and an interest in event management to join the team for the two weeks prior to â€" and on School Report News Day on Thursday 21 March. This is a fantastic opportunity to practise and hone your newsgathering skills and gain experience of working to a real news broadcast deadline. We’re looking for applicants with good people and planning skills and preferably experience of working with children. Creative Challenge Imagine your local secondary school will be taking part in School Report News Day. 1) Write a treatment for a story you think the students would be interested in covering, that would appeal to them and the local community [200 word limit]. 2) Plan an event to help a local school share and celebrate this story and others in their local area. Think about what you’d do; where you’d host the event (in or out of school), who you’d invite, how they would be involved and how it would make a lasting impact [500 word limit]. 3) Tell us a little bit about yourself â€" what your background and passions are, what you’re studying, what your skills and strengths are (TV/radio editing, web/interactive skills, event organising for example) and why you’re applying for this opportunity (250 word limit). In addition to the two-week placement on the School Report team, we also have a number of opportunities for talented students to volunteer on News Day itself, so please get creative and get those submissions in! The deadline for the creative challenge is Wednesday 13th February 2013 and you need to send yours to kimo.morrison@bbc.co.uk. Placement Details Dates for placement: 11 to 22 March 2013 All Media Volunteering work experience

Effective Resume Writing Tutorials - The Way to Improve Your Skills

Effective Resume Writing Tutorials - The Way to Improve Your SkillsThe only thing that a person needs in order to become successful at resume writing is the knowledge and skills needed to write well. In the absence of these, the chances of you being able to write well are very slim indeed.However, it is possible to learn the skills needed for resume writing, and this means that you will not need to go back to school in order to do so. This can be achieved by reading and taking courses on how to write a resume. There are several places where you can find such courses and you should definitely take advantage of them.While taking such courses, make sure that they include information about resume writing from those who have already learned the skills. It is this knowledge that you will be required to absorb in order to become a better writer.These courses will offer you a lot of reliable resources and guides, which will enable you to be more successful with your resume writing. This will give you an edge over those who have never done resume writing before.This is because such courses include proven methods that will help you write a resume that will allow you to secure the job you want. The skills that you will be taught here are methods that will help you become a more effective writer.Resume writing tutorials that are offered online will also teach you the art of interviewing. As you study, you will be able to see how the questioners and interviewers are using to make their way to the end result that they want.You will also be taught how to get rid of the stigma that people think of resume writers. With the right combination of skills, you will find that these people are very different from the resumes that they make.It will not take you a long time to learn the techniques that you need in order to become a better writer. You will then be able to show that you have mastered the techniques and will have a greater chance of getting the job you want.

Can Juan Repurpose His Career Part 3 of 4 [Podcast] - Career Pivot

Can Juan Repurpose His Career Part 3 of 4 [Podcast] - Career Pivot Episode #88 â€" Marc works with “Juan,” (not his real name) to pivot his career, in the third of four episodes featuring “Juan.” Description: In Part 3 of this series, Marc covers the second feedback session with Juan for his personality assessment. Key Takeaways: [1:40] Marc welcomes you to Episode 88 of the Repurpose Your Career podcast (the intro of which he is recording inside his closet in Ajijic) and invites you to share this podcast with others. Please subscribe, share it on social media, write an honest iTunes review, or tell your neighbors and colleagues so Marc can help more people. [2:31] Next week’s episode is an interesting interview with Jeanne Yocum. Jeanne has been self-employed as a public relations consultant and ghostwriter for over 30 years. This Spring, Jeanne published her first solo book, The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss. This book really resonated with Marc. [2:58] This week is the third episode of the four-part series “Can Juan Repurpose His Career?” Juan is in his mid-fifties, a former school teacher, technology trainer and educator, adjunct professor, and multipotentialite. Juan is figuring out what is next. [3:19] If you have not listened to the first two parts of this series, please stop now and listen to Episode 83 and Episode 84 before listening to this third part. You will find all the reports for the series to download at Careerpivot.com/Juan. Marc added more reports for this Episode 88. [4:00] Marc has already gotten feedback from a number of people about how this series resonates with them. [4:09] Marc introduces Juan. This episode is the second feedback session for Juan. Now on to the podcast… Download Link |iTunes|Stitcher Radio|Google Podcast|Podbean|TuneIn|Overcast [4:17] Juan reports on his homework from the first feedback session. Juan recalls the stress of leaving a union teaching position to going to a freelance situation, and what that meant to him. The security and convenience of benefits are alluring but Juan felt unchallenged and stagnant in a protected job. [6:01] Juan learned a lot about his personality and natural predispositions in the first feedback session. He says the Birkman Assessment was on the spot. Juan wants to be high-challenged. He was happy doing freelancing. He enjoyed traveling a lot. [7:37] Marc introduces the Preferred Work Styles (PWS) report. This covers Juan’s natural management style, how he fits into the corporate work environment, social adaptability and social responsibilities, and how Juan makes decisions. [8:40] Juan is a global conceptual thinker. [9:03] Juan’s knowledge specialist rank is 7/10. This is common for Marc’s clientele. Juan reads the knowledge specialist description. Juan leads by example. [9:59] Juan ranks 3/10 in directive management. Juan reads the description. Juan doesn’t lead by telling. [11:00] Juan ranks 2/10 in delegative management. Juan is not interested in a VP or CIO position. [12:37] In the PWS document, Juan’s work motivation is ranked at 2/10. He needs to see value in his work to get motivated. Just having work is not motivation enough. [13:59] Marc shares an example of someone who goes crazy with assignments given without explaining their purpose. Marc and Juan apply the rating to Juan’s experience in the public school system. Juan needs work he believes in. [15:57] Juans ranks 4/10 in corporate adaptability. Juan reads the description for the level of commitment to the organization. Someone with a score of 3 or lower does not participate in organizational politics. Juan was proud to work for the organizations where he was given a lot of freedom and flexibility. [1718] Juan identifies more with the good managers he has had than with the corporations where they worked. [18:55] Juan ranks 7/10 in self-development. Juan reads the description. A rank of 7 shows he learns a job best in a structured onboarding process. Being left on his own is uncomfortable for him. [21:26] Juan ranks 6/10 in social adaptability. This is about his opinions of other people in general, relating to trust. A low-trust individual would make a good policeman. A high-trust individual tends to get burned. Marc always recommends, in a new job situation, regardless of your trust ranking, to find ways to let people earn your trust. [23:36] Juan ranks 5/10 in social responsibility. He is right in the middle. Juan reads the description. A rank of five and above shows a willingness to go along with the rules and conform to social expectations. Juan was a good corporate citizen. Juan, as a Latin-American, has bucked the traditional cultural trend to marry and have a family. [28:00] Juan ranks 5/10 in public contact and 6/10 in detail. Juan reads the public contact and detail descriptions. Being in the middle of both areas means Juan doesn’t want to be around people all the time, but some time is good. [29:45] Juan ranks 7/10 global and 4/10 linear. Juan reads the global and linear descriptions. Juan follows a relational and holistic approach to solve problems. Low-middle linear means Juan is not mostly logical but uses intuition as well. He thinks big. By contrast, Marc is a 10 linear. For Marc, everything is a process. [30:37] Juan ranks 8/10 conceptual and 3/10 concrete. Juan reads the descriptions. Conceptual utilizes abstract information, experience, intuition, and knowledge to find fresh solutions. Concrete uses analysis and facts to solve problems. Juan prefers to use intuition and experience before facts. [31:24] In combinations of problem-solving, Juan is a conceptual global thinker. Juan reads the description. Juan is a strategic thinker and is comfortable with ambiguity. He is open to new ideas and will consider all facets of an issue before taking action. His approach is more intuitive than fact-based. [32:10] The priority of a conceptual global thinker is to make sure a problem has been fully identified and defined. Then they move to take action to solve the problem. Juan sees this as 100% on-target. [32:41] Marc gives Juan some homework to use this as a framework to consider how he solves problems and find three problems he solved at work and three problems he solved in his personal life and report back to Marc how he did it. Marc wants Juan to be able to see a pattern and explain it. [33:07] Marc is a linear concrete thinker. A linear concrete thinker and a conceptual global thinker can either complement each other or “kill” one another. They think very differently. Marc asks Juan to observe how his own brain works. If he can explain that in a job interview the hiring manager will have a better idea if Juan will fit in. [34:03] One of the big problems a hiring manager has is thinking everyone thinks like them. We are all different. [34:48] The Birkman Map Summary shows what Juan likes to do. “You may like to innovate or create, plan how to do things, consider the future, create new approaches, and look at things theoretically.” [35:21] Juan self-describes as “You prefer to be enthusiastic and flexible, assertive and competitive, logical and objective, energetic, direct, and open.” [35:43] In the next feedback session, Marc will discuss in detail with Juan his stress report and how he wants to be treated. In short, Juan wants people to show they appreciate him, are interested in his feelings, as well as logic, give him time for complex decisions, give him time alone or with one or two others, and not overschedule him. [36:18] Marc observes that Juan wants to be around a small number of people he likes and who like him. He doesn’t want to be rushed on decisions. He wants some alone time and wants to manage his own schedule. [36:39] Marc points out that how Juan behaves and how he wants to be treated are very different. Juan is a closet introvert. He has learned to behave differently because he is expected to. [37:06] Last, are Juan’s primary stress behaviors. Marc gives Juan an assignment to cut them out and place them where he will see them frequently. If he catches them early, he can change the behavior. Juan’s stress behaviors are withdrawing, fatigue, indecisiveness, pessimism, over-sensitivity to criticism. [37:49] Juan recognizes withdrawing as a career pattern after completing an assignment or being laid off. He also recognizes fatigue in the office, and indecisiveness while a freelancer. [38:48] Marc gives Juan a homework assignment to translate 8-15 of the usual behavior phrases into ‘Juan-talk,’ figure out his problem-solving style, and fill out a career reflection worksheet about the times he was the happiest with his boss, his team, and when he felt valued, with the right level of activity. [40:16] When Juan understands what are the best conditions for him, and what are the worst conditions, he can run to the good stuff, instead of running from the bad stuff. Marc just wants Juan to make sure he doesn’t go back to a bad circumstance. If he stays a freelancer he has fewer constraints; if he goes to teaching he has security. [41:26] Marc talks about relapsing and uses himself as an example. He went back to something â€" a tech startup â€" that was familiar. It wasn’t healthy for him. [42:05] Juan tells how grateful he is for Marc’s insight and helping him find the right course. [42:33] Marc describes why Juan, being a multipotentialite, has bounced around in his career. He thought with enough education he would be recession-proof. He wanted to do something different every few years. In his mid-fifties, with no clear direction, the goal is to steer to a path of success. [44:38] Check back next week, when Marc will interview Jeanne Yocum. Mentioned in This Episode: Careerpivot.com The Self-Employment Survival Guide: Proven Strategies to Succeed as Your Own Boss, by Jeanne Yocum Careerpivot.com/Juan CareerPivot.com/Episode-83 “Can Juan Repurpose His Career? Part 1” CareerPivot.com/Episode-84 “Can Juan Repurpose His Career? Part 2” Birkman Assessment Reports used in the Feedback Session with Juan Doe Please pick up a copy of Repurpose Your Career: A Practical Guide for the 2nd Half of Life, by Marc Miller and Susan Lahey. The paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats are available now. When you have completed reading the book, Marc would very much appreciate your leaving an honest review on Amazon.com. The audio version of the book is available on the iTunes app, Audible, and Amazon. Marc has the paid membership community running on the CareerPivot.com website. The website is in production. Marc is contacting people on the waitlist. Get more information and sign up for the waitlist at CareerPivot.com/Community. Marc has five initial cohorts of 10 members in the second half of life. They are guiding him on what to build. He will start recruiting members for the sixth cohort who are motivated to take action and give Marc input on what he should produce next. Ask to be put on the waiting list to join a cohort. This is a unique paid membership community where Marc will offer group coaching, special content, mastermind groups, branding sessions and a community where you can seek help. CareerPivot.com/Episode-88 Show Notes for this episode. Please subscribe at CareerPivot.com to get updates on all the other happenings at Career Pivot. Marc publishes a blog with Show Notes every Tuesday morning. If you subscribe to the Career Pivots blog, every Sunday you will receive the Career Pivot Insights email, which includes a link to this podcast. Please take a moment â€" go to iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or Spotify through the Spotify app. Give this podcast an honest review and subscribe! If you’re not sure how to leave a review, please go to CareerPivot.com/review, and read the detailed instructions there. Email Marc at Podcast@CareerPivot.com. Contact Marc, and ask questions at Careerpivot.com/contact-me You can find Show Notes at Careerpivot.com/repurpose-career-podcast. To subscribe from an iPhone: CareerPivot.com/iTunes To subscribe from an Android: CareerPivot.com/Android Careerpivot.com Like what you just read? Share it with your friends using the buttons above. Like What You Read? 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Fun with whiteboards - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Fun with whiteboards - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog A creative challenge: Mix 80s songs and deserts. I got an email from Julie Dunbar at ABC-CLIO who wrote: Ive been inspired by your ideas for the past few months about bringing happiness into the workplace. Last week I discovered something that really brought joy into my office and I wanted to share it with you. On the office whiteboard we wrote a themeDay 1 was Literature and Food; Day 2 was Movies and Food; and Day 3 (Valentines Day) was 1980s Love Songs and Desserts (we like food). Underneath the theme we wrote a few examples. Day 1: (Literature and Food) Tequila Mockingbird, Mansfield Pork, The Loin the Witch and the Wardrobe. Day 2: (Movies and Food) Butch Cassidy the Sundance Kidney Bean, Citizen Candy Kane, Silence of the Lambchops. Day 3: (80s songs and desserts) I Just Called to Say I Love Tiramisu, When Dove Bars Cry, and Why Cant Pie be You. By the end of each day, the white board was filled! By day 3, when I walked into the office, coworkers were already standing around the whiteboard and asked me, Can we start? One of them thanked me for bringing creativity in the office place! Here are the full whiteboards for the other two themes: But it doesnt stop there. ABC-CLIO are spread over 2 offices and some people work from home. As Julie wrote in a follow-up email: We all work together every day via phone and email, but we dont actually know or have fun with one another. I thought it would be fun if we challenged the other colleagues outside of our Colorado office to this game might help with building connection. So we did this week and it was a success. The California office has already told me they will be counter-challenging us soon! Heres the email challenge: This is a simple little thing you can do to introduce some fun in a workplace or between different locations of the same workplace. Could it work in your organization? Also, what would be your contributions in the categories above? I have Girls Just Wanna Have Flan and Field of Cream Puffs :o) Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related

Tomorrow! Tanya Geisler me on The Imposter Complex - a free Women of the World webinar! - When I Grow Up

Tomorrow! Tanya Geisler me on The Imposter Complex - a free Women of the World webinar! - When I Grow Up Join us by filling out your info below Tomorrow Im interviewing my dear friend, coach and speaker Tanya Geisler on her main point of expertise: The Imposter Complex. To get you ready for our free webinar, give yourself the gift of spending the next 15 minutes watching her TedX talk. Warning/threat/promise: chills and lightbulb moments aplenty ahead: At 3pm Eastern on Friday, November 18th, well be covering: What The Imposter Complex is and how its stopping you from doing your best work Best practices for dealing with The Imposter Complex and bring your dreams to life How you can step into your starring role and *finally* do the work the world needs from you Whatever you wanna know â€" there’ll be plenty of time for QA! Dont forget that when you register, you get: the log-in info  to join us live and for free a recording of the session within an hour or so of us wrapping up, that comes with a worksheet with  homework directly from Tanya  that relates to  The Imposter Complex automatic registration to future Women of the World interviews  (that you can unsubscribe from anytime) a link to access my first two Women of the World interviews with Kim Werker on Making Creativity Fun and Jodi Womack on Momentum â€" and the worksheets that go with em Ready to show your Imposter whos boss? Register below and well see ya tomorrow! Join us by filling out your info below Cant make it live? Register anyways and the recording will be in your Inbox soon after we wrap up! By signing up for this webinar, you agree to get communication about this interview + also to be emailed with goodness from both myself and my guest. We’ll never sell your email or spam you, and you can unsubscribe at any time.