Keep Your "Stealth Job Search" Secret with this one little trick.... Ok, you have had it at work and you have decided it is time to make a change. So, naturally you start to get ready to conduct a job search. You update your resume. You update your LinkedIn profile and voila, you are ready! What you might not realize is that you have possibly just broadcast your intentions to your entire LinkedIn network. That could include your current colleagues and even your boss if you

In a quick glance, a recruiter or another LinkedIn member can often if tell is someone is a novice with LinkedIn. One of the dead giveaways of a new user is the lack of a “vanity URL”. What in the heck is a vanity URL? (You might ask). Well, when you create a new account, LinkedIn assigns you a URL, or unique web address. The assigned URL is long with lots of numbers and your name mixed up in there somewhere. It doesn’t look great. Plus, it has less functionally than a nic

Clients often feel trapped in their current company because they have no idea where their skills are valuable or transferable. With a few quick tricks, it is possible to use LinkedIn to find out. Let’s say you are a financial analyst who has experience using Hyperion, but you do not know which companies (or industries) in town would care about that. It is time for an advanced search of LinkedIn ADVANCED SEARCH Go to the top search field and drop down the arrow on the left ha

Linkedin Nugget Finding contacts with a common name... We all have those people in our network that have a common name. I happen to know a John Smith and a James Bond – really, I do! When it comes time to try to locate these people on LinkedIn, it can present a real challenge. In a recent search for “John Smith”, there are 46,968 profiles to sort through. Paging though all of these profiles could be a long day. What’s a girl to do? There are a couple of quick ways you can