Given that I’ve been in the recruiting and career development business since the late ‘90s, I have many connections on LinkedIn. Some of these connections are with people I know quite well. But, with upwards of 1,000 people in my network, many are merely digital...
The Ladders, founded in 2003, is a job board, that, up until September, 2011, was only for executives who earned $100K+. Well, that’s what it was supposed to be. But for years, before the company changed their business model to be inclusive of lower salaried...
How Technology Has Changed The Rules Years ago, an email circulated around the Internet featuring an editorial spread that appeared in a 1955 home economics textbook, entitled “The Good Wife’s Guide.” This eyebrow- raising piece offers a glimpse into a “wife’s” role prior to the woman’s...
For those of you who don't know, I've recently gotten back into the recruiting game. Last week I interviewed Derek Reese, a former sales guy with LinkedIn. He started talking to me about the many different tools available out there to help LinkedIn users keep...
I'm always astounded at how bad people's social media profiles look on LinkedIn. The reason that the site has a gazillion users is that everyone in business recognizes the value of it as a professional networking tool. So, how come so many people do so...
I admit that I'm not much into the tweeting thing. I get that it's important, mostly because everyone says it is, and when it comes to social media and technology, I'm a lamb, here me "bahhhh." But, to my chagrin, I don't use the...
A few months ago, I created a bogus career profile and signed up for VisualCV in order to review their services for you. Since then, every now and again, I get a variety of emails from them in which they basically encourage me to keep...
CareerJet’s marketing guru sent me a note last month, inviting me to review their site and services. My initial reaction was, “what if I think their services suck and write a bad review? Wouldn’t it be less risky for them to just advertise?” My second...
