A few steps you can take during the holiday break include:
1. Filling your resume and profile with facts and figures,
2. Providing context for your accomplishments,
3. Creating a narrative hiring teams will read or skim quickly,
4. Making it “easy for the customer to buy,”
5. Concentrating on text instead of graphics, and
6. Using text sizes that help recruiters read your resume.
LinkedIn Job Search
4 Reasons You Should Update Your 2021 Career Marketing Plan to Find a Job.
Examples of things to consider as 2021 approaches include:
New skills and accomplishments resulting from job restructuring in 2020,
Layoff from your pre-COVID position so you need to job search now,
Accelerated economic changes, and
Whether you will still need resumes and cover letters in 2021.
7 Reasons to Create or Enhance Your LinkedIn Profile.
There are at least 7 specific reasons to create a LinkedIn profile, or enhance your profile if you already have one:
1. Recruiters may search LinkedIn instead of resume databases,
2. You will be better prepared in case of layoff,
3. Your real-world network will grow stronger,
4. LinkedIn will supplement your real-world network,
5. The site gives you an opportunity to be a subject matter expert,
6. LinkedIn will help you be found when “Googled,” and
7. There are millions of users on LinkedIn.
4 Reasons to be Thankful When You Apply for jobs After Thanksgiving: Your Job Search May be More Hopeful than Expected.
Here are just four reasons for us to be optimistic about the near future:
1. There are new types of jobs in the US economy,
2. Motivated job seekers get jobs,
3. Education is becoming more widely available online, and
4. Control of the Pandemic could usher in a new era.
4 LinkedIn Features that May Help You Succeed!
The LinkedIn features I’ll comment on this week include:
1. The Open for Work hashtag,
2. Adding a banner to your LinkedIn profile,
3. LinkedIn’s Resume Builder, and
4. The LinkedIn Career Explorer beta test.
5 Ways You Can Disqualify Yourself Before Someone Reads Your Resume. How to Avoid These Problems.