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A Good Profile Photo Makes a Winning LinkedIn Profile
A strong LinkedIn profile picture includes pleasant smile, professional attire, pleasing background, interesting angle, and some indication of your personality. The way you look shouldn’t have anything [more…]
A Professional Headline Makes a Winning LinkedIn Profile
Your professional LinkedIn headline defines who you are and what you can do for an organization. It appears just below your name as well as on every communication you send. LinkedIn doesn’t call this section [more…]
A Strong Summary Makes a Winning LinkedIn Profile
A strong LinkedIn profile summary is short, concise, unique, and tells a story or narrative. Hiring managers turn to your summary to discover more about you. Your LinkedIn profile summary section appears [more…]
Install LinkedIn Applications to Stand Out to Hiring Managers
Add a bit of color and personality to your LinkedIn profile by installing LinkedIn’s applications. These third-party plug-ins add functionality and can make your profile stand out to hiring managers. Every [more…]
Earn Green Stars in LinkedIn's Answers Section
Earning a green star in LinkedIn's Answers section is a great way to build credibility, demonstrate expertise, and show that you’re motivated in your industry. Hiring managers viewing your LinkedIn profile [more…]
Make Your LinkedIn Links Descriptive to Help Your Job Search
LinkedIn’s profile allows you to link to three different external websites. Especially when looking for a job, make these descriptive links your blog, your portfolio/resume, and current or former employer [more…]
SEOing for LinkedIn Helps Your Job Search
LinkedIn uses a search algorithm that delivers results based on keyword density, that is, what percent of the time that keyword appears among all the other words on the page. [more…]
How to Add Custom Sections to Your LinkedIn Profile
In addition to the standard Experience, Education, and Additional Information sections, you can add sections to your LinkedIn profile to reflect achievements and experiences. Hiring managers are able to [more…]
Video Résumé Basics for Your Job Search
Hiring managers form their first impression of you from your video. You must surpass the unique limitations of online video to keep your video résumé attractive to viewers. Producing high-impact content [more…]
How to State Your Name and Details on Your Video Résumé
Presenting your name and relevant details is an important aspect of the video résumé. An advanced technique is to deliver them through B-roll — cutting away from the main footage to secondary footage in [more…]
Communicate the Position You Want on Your Video Résumé
Your video résumé needs to communicate the specific position you have targeted. If your video résumé targets a specific position, company, or hiring manager, you must make that clear. [more…]
Communicate Why You’re a Great Fit via Your Video Résumé
Write your video résumé script to directly demonstrate how you fit in the specific position and company for which you are applying. If you’re interested in a posted opening for a specific position, chances [more…]
Add Conflict to Spice Up Your Video Resume Script
Adding narrative conflict to your video résumé allows you to capture the attention of your audience very quickly and keep them interested until the end. In narration, one thing happens after the next, [more…]
Show Your Personality in Your Video Résumé
Hiring managers actually place great value on video résumés because video demonstrates a candidate’s professional presentation skills and demeanor. Your personality goes a long way in helping you stand [more…]
Slideshow Commercials Demonstrate Your Job Skills to Hiring Managers
You can use common slideshow software, such as Microsoft’s PowerPoint or Apple’s Keynote, to put together a slideshow commercial for yourself to use during your job search. You can demonstrate your presentation [more…]
How to Conclude Your Video Résumé
The end of your video résumé is very important and should include a call to action and the best way to contact you. Hiring managers tend to remember the last few moments of your video as they review candidates [more…]
Camera, Lighting, and Editing Software Options for Your Video Résumé
Choosing the appropriate camera, lighting, and editing software for your video résumé is very important to producing a professional video that will attract the attention of a hiring manager. With the following [more…]
Add a Soundtrack to Your Video Résumé
The soundtrack to your video résumé defines your candidacy more subtly and more powerfully than any other video production technique. When you think about the soundtrack for your film, keep these suggestions [more…]
Spice Up Your Video Résumé with B-Roll
B-roll entails cutting away from the main footage to secondary footage and is a good way to add some spice to your video résumé and to hide a bad take. Many video résumés are a single shot taken with someone [more…]
Where to Upload Your Video Résumé
Use a content distribution system such as OneLoad from TubeMogul to upload your video résumé to sites like YouTube, instead of uploading your video to the 20-plus available video-sharing sites one at a [more…]
Why Have Multiple Online Résumés?
You need to have more than one online résumé and not limit yourself to just LinkedIn. Although most recruiters say they’re actively seeking candidates through keyword searches on LinkedIn, LinkedIn may [more…]
Sign Up for VisualCV to Help Your Job Search
A VisualCV (curriculum vitae, or résumé) is an Internet-based, multimedia résumé that gives prospective employers a three-dimensional picture of your career by allowing you to share video, images, links [more…]
How to Build Your VisualCV for the Best Results
VisualCV lays out your résumé intuitively with a heading and two columns: a wide column and a narrow column. This setup makes laying out information highly manageable. Your basic résumé info goes in the [more…]
How to Create Your VisualCV Multimedia Portfolio
One of the unique features of VisualCV is the ability to integrate multimedia portfolios alongside a traditional résumé. Your portfolio is where you upload and store tangible evidence [more…]
The Bare Essentials of LinkedIn-Style Networking
To boost the number of LinkedIn network contacts, make sure you’re fully using all your network-building options. To see what those options are, click on the Add Connections link at the top-right corner [more…]
