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Why Complaining On LinkedIn Can Hurt Your Job Search
When you air grievances on LinkedIn, there's a risk that will influence the first impression recruiters and hiring managers have about you.
4 Job Search Lessons From Hiring Managers Who’ve Worked At Meta, Shopify And IBM
What do hiring managers at top companies actually look for when it comes to deciding if they’ll interview someone?
Stop Asking People ‘Can I Pick Your Brain?’ Instead, Use These 3 Tips To Ask For Advice
If you want someone to actually take time to give you advice, you must improve the quality of your ask. It's time to ditch the "pick your brain" requests and use a more strategic approach.
How To Write And Design Your Resume To Impress 3 Key People In The Hiring Process
To help you get inside the head of people you'll meet in the hiring process, here are the three key stakeholders you’ll meet along the interview process and how to win them over.
3 Tips To Announce You’re ‘Open To Work’ On LinkedIn
To get hired, you need to do more than enable the Open To Work setting on LinkedIn. If you want to stand out in the LinkedIn newsfeed, it’s imperative that you sell yourself in your job search and use LinkedIn more strategically, which is what you’ll learn in this article.
Laid Off From A Tech Company? How Your Soft Skills Will Get You Hired Elsewhere
A study by Harvard University, the Carnegie Foundation, and Stanford Research Center concluded 85% of job success can be attributed to strong soft and people skills. As such, job seekers must identify and communicate these skills, with examples, during their job search and interviews.
How To Sell Yourself In Your Job Search
If you’ve been applying to jobs and not getting interviews or offers, chances are you aren’t selling yourself enough. You can have the greatest resume or speak brilliantly in an interview, but if you don’t sell yourself, it can often be the difference between getting a job offer or not.
It’s Time To Market Yourself Like A Product
If no one knows about a product, it can’t be successful. The same applies to your career. When the right people know, like and trust you, you'll stand out and more career opportunities will come your way.
Why You Should Treat Your Career As A Product & How To Design It
You are the single most important creative product that you’ll ever work on. Successful products aren’t created by chance; they’re designed. The same applies to your career. If you want to have a successful and fulfilling career, you must be strategic and intentional about designing your career.
Laid Off From A Tech Company? 3 Ways To Find A Tech Job In A Different Industry
Tech layoffs have left many people unexpectedly looking for jobs, and others uncertain about job security. Just because your last job was at a tech company, that doesn’t mean you can’t get hired in another sector, and maybe even with a salary increase.