
You don’t need to become a LinkedIn influencer to get hired
After my webinar yesterday, someone asked me a question I hear quite often: “Should I be posting on LinkedIn to help me land a job?”

After my webinar yesterday, someone asked me a question I hear quite often: “Should I be posting on LinkedIn to help me land a job?”

A couple of weeks ago, I paid good money to scare myself silly. 😂 I’m an adrenaline junkie. I’ve even jumped out of a perfectly

One of our clients was hiring recently. His talent acquisition team sent him three resumes for the role. Two of them were 90% identical. Both

Yesterday, I hosted a live training on how experienced professionals can turn their experience into more interviews and job offers. We had a great group

You can be incredibly good at what you do… and still have absolutely no idea how to get from where you are now to the

You can have a strong career behind you and still struggle to get interviews. I hear this all the time from experienced professionals who’ve spent

I hear some version of this all the time: “I’m applying. I’m networking. I’m doing everything I’m supposed to be doing. Why is nothing moving?”

“We think you might be overqualified.” If you have 15, 20 or 25+ years of experience, those words can be incredibly frustrating. Because how did

You told your former colleagues you’re looking for a new role. You mentioned it to a few contacts over coffee. You updated your LinkedIn® profile.

Yesterday, I spent an hour with a group of mid-career professionals preparing for the September hiring surge. And something became very clear from the conversation

Before we worked together, Rusty described his job search in a way I hear all the time. “It felt like I was sending my resume

I wasn’t planning to write about this today. But something happened this week that I think is worth sharing, especially if you’ve been telling yourself

The email came on a Tuesday morning. Restructuring. Elimination of roles across several departments. Effective immediately for some, phased out over the next quarter for

Every year, around June, I start hearing the same comments from mid-career professionals. “I’ll wait until September. Nobody’s hiring in the summer.” “Hiring managers are

“So, tell me a bit about yourself.” It sounds like the easiest question in the interview. A warm-up. A way to get the conversation started.

“I want you to know you’re one of our top candidates. We’ll be in touch very soon.” You hang up feeling like the search is

There was a time when people came to you for advice. Colleagues wanted your perspective. Leaders trusted your judgment. People sought you out because they

The interview ran fifteen minutes over, and for once, it didn’t feel like you were forcing the conversation. They were engaged, asking follow-up questions, talking

You find out through LinkedIn, because that’s how people often find out about these things now. You see the announcement, you look at the profile,

You see a posting asking for 5 years of experience and think: “Perfect. I’ve done this for years.” So you apply expecting at least a
