LinkedIn revealed today the next generation LinkedIn Profile! It promises: Simplified editing, Build relationships, Rich insights. No big changes but much more visual attractive. Starting roll out today. What do you think of this design?
LinkedIn released today new data about its popularity among small business professionals. They looked at how many small business professionals are already LinkedIn members. For the purposes of this study, LinkedIn defined small business professionals as LinkedIn members who currently work at a company that has between 11 to 500 employees. LinkedIn’s data revealed that […]
On LinkedIn your work history is sorted by date, new to oldest position, and many people asked us if it’s possible to re-arrange your positions in a different order. This is highly desired for people who work on project assignments, like freelancers or entrepreneurs, who prefer to show their company first (see example below). Unfortunately […]
Google has unveiled today brand pages for Google+, allowing businesses and brands to join Google’s social network, and of course we were one of the first to try it out and you can see the result here: Recruit2 on Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108865775393321620539/ But wait there is more! We also created a page for the Recruitment […]
Did you know it’s possible to re-arrange certain sections of your LinkedIn profile to put more emphasis on your education, work experience or a presentation that you’ve added to your profile? Just go to Profile in the top menu, select Edit Profile and drag the section wherever you want them. This instructional video shows you […]
LinkedIn offers paying members the ability to store profiles in separate folders (5 to 25 depending on the account) in order to organise it. It’s very useful for anyone, especially Recruiters and Job Seeker, during a quick search to save profiles in a folder and organise notes here or add contact details to it. The […]
Widgets are basic visual building blocks which, combined in an application, hold all the data processed by the application and the available interactions on this data. small software programs or code that can be integrated into websites or blogs (source: Wikipedia]. LinkedIn offers such a plugin, in javascript code, which can be used to display […]
The ‘Who’s viewed my profile‘ page is probably one of the most visited pages on LinkedIn as a lot of people are checking this. In fact, I know some people who check this page daily! For paid members LinkedIn provides more statistics around this topic. Not only can you see more history information but also: […]
Do you want to merge 2 positions into one but afraid to loose the recommendations? Or perhaps you want re-assign a recommendation that is accidently assigned to the wrong position? The good news is that it is possible to do this. What you’ll need to do is (temporarily) remove the position associated with the recommedation. […]
If you are really seriously want to use your (online) social network a 100% complete profile is a must. We pay much attention to this in our book “Career Management via LinkedIn” as its will give you a strong and essential basis for succesful networking online. According to LinkedIn figures, a 100% complete profile will […]