LinkedIn (LI) has become the primary online professional social networking site. While I could talk for several hours on how to effectively arrange your profile and also how to use LI in your job search, in this piece I want to focus on your LinkedIn personal URL.
Consider including it on your resume and personal business card. Further, look at your URL. Does it contain several random letters and/or numbers?
The Wooden Group will holds one hour “Get Hired” Workshops every Thursday at 12:00pm, eastern time.
If you can’t make it to the workshop in person we’ll be streaming it live on Ustream. Please check our Facebook Pageor Twitter Profile on Thursday morning for the link!
In recent weeks they’ve covered tips on resume development, networking, utilizing LinkedIn, and ways of handling several difficult interview questions.
Since the workshops are independent, there’s no problem if you’ve missed prior ones. Simply come or log on with your resume and questions.
The Wooden Group’s office is located in the Broyhill Office Suites on Clemmons Road next to the Clemmons Public Library.
Seating is limited, so call 336.793.8040 or email randy@woodengroup.com to confirm your spot.
The Wooden Group announces it will add a second free one hour “Get Hired” workshop to its weekly calendar. Beginning this Thursday (3/25/10) they’ll offer a noon workshop on Thursdays while continuing the 10am Saturday workshop.
In recent weeks they’ve covered tips on resume development, networking, utilizing LinkedIn, and ways of handling several difficult interview questions.
Since the workshops are independent, there’s no problem if you’ve missed prior ones. Simply come with your resume and questions.
The Wooden Group’s office is located in the Broyhill Office Suites on Clemmons Road next to the Clemmons Public Library.
Seating is limited, so call 336.793.8040 or email randy@woodengroup.com to confirm your spot.
I see so many people wearing their name tag over their left side, probably because they’re right handed and simply applying that sticker to a side convenient to them.
The proper location for your name tag is on your right side.
Why? …for the other person’s convenience.
Think about it. When you look to shake hands with someone, you naturally look for their right hand.
A name tag on the other person’s right side makes it convenient for you to view their name tag and then have your eyes pick up their right hand.
From time to time I see catchy seminar titles surrounding what employers are really looking for. And while there’s room for disagreement, for my money an employer focuses on skills and your attitude, and not necessarily in that order.
Attitude, or enthusiasm, is perhaps the single most important personal quality you can possess in terms of getting people to like you. Think about it. Among your friends, do you hang out with negative or dull people? In hiring, like with much of life, our emotions guide us. Take relatively equal candidates and the one most liked will probably generate the offer.
Enthusiasm means everything from being energetic and smiling to preparing by asking substantive questions to doing your homework on the company to dressing appropriately to arriving in plenty of time to sending a thank you note.
Skills can mean your job specific experience or exhibiting sufficient transferable skills. An employer needs to know that you have either previously done the work or have the ability to pick things up quickly. In future articles I’ll discuss how to talk about your skills in ways meaningful to an employer.
Randy Wooden of The Wooden Group conducts a free one-hour “Get Hired” workshop each Saturday at 10am.
This week we welcome special guest Sindy Martin, an award winning speaker and trainer who specializes in business etiquette, networking and presentation skills.
Ever say these words to someone? “Right, OK, I understand, that makes sense, sounds good, sure.”
Now be honest. By the time you’d uttered any of those words you’d mentally moved on past what the other person was saying. And those words were your not-so-subtle hints to the person to stop talking.
As an interviewee we often possess a combination of nerves and a desire to do an information puke all over the employer. It’s the old adage, “Throw enough against the wall and something will stick.” We mistakenly think that since we weren’t interrupted (as we would normally be in peer-to-peer conversation) that the employer wants to hear more. So we drone on and on and on and… Mistake!
When the employer gives you those “word cues” my best advice is to end in another sentence or so. Then, ask the employer whether that addressed his question or whether he wanted you to provide more information. I’ll bet my dollar to your penny his answer will be along the lines of, “No, you’re fine.”
Randy Wooden of The Wooden Group conducts a free one-hour “Get Hired” workshop each Saturday at 10am.
Our office is located in the Broyhill Office Suites on Clemmons Road next to the Clemmons Public Library.
These “Get Hired” workshops have been a success and continue to grow in popularity. In recent weeks we’ve covered tips on resume development, how & when to follow up on your application, how to network more effectively, and ways of handling several difficult interview questions.
Since the workshops are independent, there’s no problem if you’ve missed prior ones. Simply come with your resume and questions.
Seating is limited, so call or email to confirm your spot. 336.793.8040 or randy@woodengroup.com.
By: Randy Wooden
By: Randy Wooden
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