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On LinkedIn, If You Won’t Share, Then I Won’t Care
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This post will be a relatively quick one that is a mini-rant. If you are “rant-averse,” then turn away now. My rant has to do with a piece of LinkedIn etiquette. LinkedIn is becoming increasingly important in the world of business networking. I am hesitant to call the service a social network. It’s really a business networking play which takes out a lot of the silly minutiae that sharing on Twitter and Facebook can enable. By being about business there is less tolerance for the “I just passed gas” kind of updates that make many lose their cookies. (Get it? It’s an Internet pun.) Read the remainder of this entry »
Why LinkedIn Isn’t Finding You a Job
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I am not sure if I am really old (I hear my kids saying, “Duh, dad”) or if it is just being in the youth-oriented business of Internet marketing, but I am noticing lots of 50-something people out of work right now. Maybe I am noticing it because they are constantly reaching out to me–sometimes people that I don’t know and sometimes people that I do know but haven’t heard from in a long time. That’s the kind of thing that makes you notice, I guess. And many of them say the same thing to me: “LinkedIn just isn’t working for me.” I don’t have the heart to tell them why, so I will tell you. Read the remainder of this entry »
