Professional social networking can become monotonous after a while when you make it into a one-dimensional task. To expand your professional social network and your world, add some variety and excitement to your networking strategies. There are numerous avenues of meeting people that don’t involve suited-up events where the main purpose is networking itself, while […]
Professional networking has taken on a whole new meaning with the dawn of social media websites such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. It is likely that if you use these social networks, you have connected with people ranging from distant family to old classmates, former co-workers and everything in between. But it’s easy to simply […]
We’ve all heard it before; in the business world, it is often who you know rather than what you know that will help you move upwards. While experience and skills are important, it will be hard to make the best use of them without a quality professional social network. Building relationships through professional social networking […]
The art of professional networking begins with one conversation, one distribution of your resume, one connection made on LinkedIn. Networking can be done anywhere, through any group of people, whether it is friends, family or peers that you share a particular interest or hobby with. Of course, the likelihood of making a useful career connection […]
There’s much talk around the fact that an effectively written resume is the key to landing more interviews, down to every word in the document. There couldn’t be more truth to this statement. Hiring managers usually decide in the first few seconds of looking at an applicant’s resume whether or not it is a possible […]
It can be enough of a challenge to get all the necessary information about your past experience, accomplishments and skillset into your resume that it’s easy to forget to pay attention to the language you are using. Since your resume is a document that drives the future of your career, it is worth taking a […]
So that much-anticipated job interview is finally over, and you feel good about how it went. You are probably breathing a huge sigh of relief, and keeping your fingers crossed that things pan out the way you want them to (i.e. you get the job). But your work isn’t over yet. If you don’t follow […]
You just booked a job interview, and now the preparation begins. It’s important to know the right things to do before an interview to increase the chance of it being a success. You want to make sure you go in there as self-assured as possible, knowing the company and the position inside out, and ready […]
