We’re happy to be a part of Newsday’s article today on spotlighting skills with LinkedIn endorsements. (Yes, that’s me in the silhouette photo, teaching at the One-Stop Employment Center in Hauppauge, N.Y.) The main thrust of the piece is one that we’ve been preaching for some time: That while endorsements… Read More »LinkedIn Endorsements (As Seen in Newsday)
If you have any kind of LinkedIn presence these days, chances are good that you’ve been endorsed by one or more of your peers. If you’re lucky, you were even endorsed for a skill that you have — and that you want to market. Most of us have also received… Read More »LinkedIn Endorsements? Skip the Drive-By
I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. What a lousy way to make a first (or subsequent) impression on a business contact. That 11-word sentence, automatically generated when you hit the “Connect” button on someone’s LinkedIn profile, is a surefire way to signal that you’re not… Read More »Why Your Connection Requests Fail