Articles Index

LinkedIn
Suggestions and tips for using LinkedIn to help with job searching and building your career.

LinkedIn Job Search
How can you ensure that you're using the full power of LinkedIn to assist with your search for a new job? It's important to take the time to build your LinkedIn profile, to add to your connections, and to effectively use your connections to help with your job search.

LinkedIn and Your Job Search
How to use LinkedIn as part of your job search, including how to increase your visibility and connections, so employers and recruiters can find you.

Employment 2.0
When times are tough, it's important to remember the basics. The internet isn't a replacement for your job search, recruiting efforts, connecting, selling, or whatever it is you use it for. It's an enhancement and only that.

LinkedIn Profile
How to use your LinkedIn profile to increase your visibility, so employers and recruiters can find you.

How to Use Social Media in Your Job Search
Most people know that the best way to find a job is through networking. You can go to networking meetings, tap into your own personal network, or ask friends who they know. With the Internet buzzing with social media, there are similarly many ways to use social media in order to network, and eventually find a job.

Job Search and Career Networking
How to use career and job search networking to find employment opportunities and build your career.

Holiday Season Job Searching
Are you about to start a job search or are you in the midst of looking for a new job? Are you thinking about waiting to start or putting your job search on hold? If so, think again. Contrary to popular opinion, this is a good time of year to find a job.

Facebook and Professional Networking
Should you use Facebook for professional networking, and, if so, what is the best way to use it?

Using Facebook at Work
An issue for job seekers, in this time of being constantly in touch, by computer and by phone to your connections, is what happens at work? You could work at a company where Facebook is blocked, or you could even have a job where using Facebook is part of your job description.

LinkedIn Success Stories
LinkedIn job search success stories.

Participating in Professional Associations
A membership in a professional association can often be an excellent source of employment information and job leads. Here is how membership in one can assist you with job hunting and your long-term career development.

Job Search and Career Networking Tips
The importance of career networking shouldn't be discounted when you are in the midst of a job search. In fact, your career network should become a part of your daily work and career-related endeavors, as well as part of your job search.

Network Your Way to a New Job
Even if you're not looking for a job right now, career networking should be a part of your daily, or at least weekly, routine. You never know when you might find yourself in need of a new job.

MyWorkster
MyWorkster provides a professional presence online (including a profile, resume, and video resume) as well as a means of networking with other job seekers and employers. MyWorkster also has job listings, blogs, and an instant messenging service.

Letter of Introduction Sample
Letter of Introduction: Sample letter of introduction used to refer an candidate to a prospective employer or to ask for career assistance.

When the Job Isn't What You Expected
What do you do when your new job, despite your doing all the right things before you accepted the offer, isn't anything like you expected? First of all, don't panic. You do have options and this may not be as much of a crisis as you think.

The Power of Networking
Networking itself is not a revolutionary concept, but how people are networking and connecting to great opportunities is changing with next-generation job sites that combine job search and networking. People can now find jobs using powerful search tools on the Web and get jobs based on the strengths of existing relationships.