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VisualCV.com: Section 1 – What is an online resume?
An online resume is a digital representation of the classic paper resume, but with a twist!
With online resumes you get all of the advantages of paper resumes but with more modern features like:
- The Ability to Build and manage a more engaging Internet based resume.
- Allows You to Combine audio, video and a digital career portfolio – all on a single Web page.
- Easily and Securely share professional qualifications with your customers, partners, employers and colleagues
Category: Job Hunting, Tutorials, VisualCV
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LinkedIn “Get Connected”: Section 10 – LinkedIn For Job Hunting – Strategies
Strategy 1 – Thinking Ahead to Get Ahead
With this strategy, I am focussing on those who have a job and who are always looking to advance, or those who have a job but want to keep options open.
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LinkedIn “Get Connected”: Section 9 – LinkedIn For Job Hunting
Besides being an awesome tool for Professional Networking, LinkedIn doubles as a powerful job hunting tool as well. LinkedIn has its OWN job search engine and is also supplemented by the “SimplyHired” engine as well.
Category: Tutorials
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LinkedIn “Get Connected”: Section 8 – Adding Connections – LinkedIn Answers
LinkedIn also offers a Question and Answer service. By using this, you can establish yourself as an expert in a given filed by answering others questions.
OR
You can ask questions to others in your field or situation and they may be of a great help to you. Both asking, and answering questions can lead to long term connections that may yield far bigger benefits that this simple one time Question / Answer exchange.
Category: Job Hunting, LinkedIn, Tutorials
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LinkedIn “Get Connected”: Section 7 – Adding Connections – LinkedIn Groups
So you want more connections? Well I have yet another way for you to find QUALITY connections! LinkedIn
Groups.
You can find groups for almost anything:
- Common Interest
- Alumni
- Clubs
- Networking Groups
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LinkedIn “Get Connected”: Section 6 – Adding Connections – Other Methods
Advanced Search
Another way to build your LinkedIn network is to search for people who you know. You can search for people by name, company name, school, industry, location, etc., using the Advanced Search Feature.
Let’s take a look at this feature and see how easy it is to find the connections you want to make.
Category: Job Hunting, LinkedIn, Tutorials
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Twitter “Tweeting Like A True Professional”: Section 1 – Introduction
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a super popular social networking/micro blogging platform.
What is Micro-Blogging?
Micro Blogging means you are limited to the size in characters of the posts (tweets) you make. For Twitter, the limit of characters
in each post is 140 characters.
Twitter allows you to connect with and follow influential people, check out the latest news in the world, and most importantly, see what people are doing RIGHT NOW.
People use Twitter to:
- Tell people what interests them
- Let people know what they are doing right now
- Follow and connect with industry leaders and masterminds
- Brand themselves
- Receive breaking news as it happens
- Much more
In my next twitter articles, I will show you how to leverage Twitter for professional and Job hunting purposes. So lets get started, and get you signed up for a Twitter account in my next article!
Category: Job Hunting, Tutorials, Twitter
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LinkedIn “Get Connected”: Section 5 – Adding Connections
Before reading through this article, you must already have your linkedIn account. if you do then continue reading, if not please read my article on how to create your linked in account.
So you have your shiny new profile all ready to go, but you are missing one crucial pirce of the puzzle…Connections.
Connections are the core to the power of LinkedIn. Through connections you can be introduced to others, find former colleagues, and even old college connections.
Category: Job Hunting, LinkedIn, Tutorials
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LinkedIn “Get Connected”: Section 4 – Add Your Resume Elements
When you are done building your profile as seen here, you will need to add resume elements in your profile.
Take a look right below the blue box we just worked with in the past article. What do you see? I bet it looks similar to the image I have provided below? Am I right? Great!
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