I have always said to use as many of the 2,000 characters as possible in your LinkedIn Summary, but I just found an example of a very short Summary that I really liked… check out personal branding expert William Arruda’s Summary:
That’s it… SHORT!
Career change: The golden words - Career blog - Position Ignition - taking you to the next step in your career
Many of us choose a career in our early twenties, often after university, with little real experience of working life. As a result, occupations often fail to live up to the level of our uninformed expectation. We become disillusioned within careers in which we have no real motivation: this is an increasingly common phenomenon. Due to freedom of information, greater choice and changes in social behaviour, more and more individuals are seeking a career change.
How Recruiters Screen Your Resume | Career Rocketeer - Career Search and Personal Branding Blog
In seminars and workshops, I am always asked what job seekers should know when writing their resumes. In my opinion the most important thing someone writing a resume needs to know is how the people who screen resumes for a living are trained to do their job.
You see, when you are tasked with having to screen 100 or more resumes a day for a single job, and you’re trying to fill multiple jobs at the same time, you look at resumes differently than someone who has the luxury of reading 5 or 6 resumes cover to cover for one job, or someone who has never screened a resume in their life.
Self-Inflicted Job Search Wounds | EmploymentDigest.net
Yes, the economy has not yet fully recovered, and yes, the job market is still weak, but you may be killing your own chances of landing that next position.
Here are some job seeker no no’s:
The Resume
One big mistake is to simply list duties and not highlight accomplishments on the resume. Job seekers need to show results. I have seen too many resumes that simply list duties without showing bottom line results. It is not enough to say what you did. You need to demonstrate what happened as a result of your efforts. Perhaps you brought new business into your company that created a new revenue stream on a year over year basis. Maybe you motivated staff to turn around a failing project and complete it on time and under budget. Show how you made a contribution to the bottom line.
Avoiding Company-Specific Lingo on Your Resume » Blog | Great Resumes Fast
I recently met a woman who had started a new job with a Fortune 50 company several months ago. While she enjoyed some aspects of her new position, she was having a very difficult time adjusting to the culture of her new company due to the other employees constantly using acronyms she didn’t understand. The situation is so bad that every day she writes down a list of terms that she doesn’t grasp and asks her assistant to explain them.
This is a fairly extreme example of corporate culture gone awry, but it reminded me of something I see often in reviewing resumes. Candidates who have worked for one company or in one industry for a long time often fill their resumes with acronyms and jargon that would only make sense to another employee at their current company. People often don’t even notice that they‘re doing this, as they have been using these terms for years and forget that not everyone knows them.
LinkedIn Tips & Career Advice by Career Expert Joshua Waldman : CAREEREALISM
In the last 7 days, I’ve been asked 3 times this same question:
“How can I use social media to promote multiple businesses/interests and also have a profile that is effective for job seeking?”
Someone said to me recently, “There are 14 million unemployed in America. That’s a lot of entrepreneurs!”
There are people who have found their passion, or at least a business interest they wouldn’t have had the freedom to pursue if they were still employed.
That is wonderful.
The problem is if you are a job seeker AND you are running your own business, you are now split between two goals.
