by Margaret Buj | Mar 31, 2015 | a blog, Job Search, job seeker, jobs, Linked In, LinkedIn, recruiters, recruitment
Simply joining LinkedIn isn’t enough. If you want to get noticed by the top recruiters in your industry, you’ve got to find a way to stand out from the crowd. Like many recruiters, I fill a majority of my open roles using LinkedIn and I use this platform on a daily...
by Margaret Buj | Mar 27, 2015 | a blog, Career Advice, Linked In, LinkedIn
Whenever I talk to clients or run a workshop, I always talk about the importance of LinkedIn in their job search. However, many people assume that by just creating their profile, recruiters will start approaching them daily. It’s not quite as simple as that. Today,...
by Margaret Buj | Mar 27, 2015 | a blog, a job, keywords, Linked In, LinkedIn
As a recruiter, I use LinkedIn to find candidates for most of my open positions. If you are a job seeker and want to get found by recruiters on LinkedIn, you obviously need to have a strong LinkedIn profile, and you need to know about using keywords. Keywords are the...
by Margaret Buj | Jan 26, 2015 | a blog, a job, Blog, career, Career Development, keywords, Linked In, LinkedIn, recruiters, resume
I still remember my shock at seeing clichés similar to “I can work on my own initiative as well as part of a team” in 19 out of 20 applications I had received for the first role I was recruiting for when I started my recruitment career 10 years ago. Even now, I often...
by Margaret Buj | Jun 16, 2013 | a job, Blog, Career Advice, Job Search, jobs, Linked In, LinkedIn
If you are a job seeker and are not using Linked In properly, you are missing out. LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with 364 (April 2015) million members in over 200 countries and territories around the globe. Employers and recruiters...
by Margaret Buj | May 29, 2013 | Blog, Job Search, Linked In, LinkedIn
An interesting practice seems to have cropped up among self-written social media profiles. Phrases that are taboo on resumes like, “Self-motivated team player,” are creeping back into lists of job hunter credentials on LinkedIn. Unfortunately, these mundane, dry, and...