6 Ways to Leverage Your LinkedIn Profile For an Executive Job Search



6 Ways to Leverage Your LinkedIn Profile For an Executive Job Search

Your LinkedIn profile can serve as a great way to showcase your capabilities to the executive recruiters and potential employers who regularly peruse this social networking site for job candidates.

Because LinkedIn uses search engine optimization (SEO) and advertising dollars to improve its ranking on search engines like Google, your profile will…

Tough Job Market? Get Tough



Tough Job Market? Get Tough

 

Recent economic downturns have claimed many corporate jobs, and it won’t get better anytime soon.

Whether you’re out of a job or hunting for a new one while still employed, you’ll have to step up your game to compete successfully. The current job market is incredibly competitive with plenty of well-qualified people who are out of work and…

Think and Breathe CEO Starting Today



Think and Breathe CEO Starting Today

 

Just because you aren’t the chief executive of your company doesn’t mean you can’t behave like one. Anyone can utilize the principles of success that high-ranking officials everywhere follow daily.

Put your top dog hat on right now and start thinking and acting like a CEO.

1. Visualize the big picture.

Getting bogged down in the here and now and obsessing over…

People plus office equals politics: how to be a winner



People plus office equals politics: how to be a winner

 

Office politics are a reality, whether your company has two employees, two hundred, or twenty thousand.

It’s an inevitable part of business life—wherever there are people there will friendships, alliances, power struggles, competition, misunderstandings, and gossip. Understanding and accepting office politics as an unavoidable reality of life is the first step in mastering them.

Win the game by watching your own…

Shift Gears for Productivity in Tough Times



Shift Gears for Productivity in Tough Times

In a struggling economy, you’ve got to work smart and shift your productivity into high gear.

While no job is ever 100% secure, becoming a model of efficiency gives you a better chance of surviving while the low-hanging fruit in your department or corporation is plucked first.

Even if your job isn’t at risk, extra productivity will get you noticed as…