It’s not all…
August 30th, 2010…movies, miniature painting, and sleeping in. I play my guitar too.
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Actually I’m trying to do even more looking for a new job, but sometimes there just aren’t any new jobs to apply to. I looked at well over a hundred yesterday and applied to one. Today there wasn’t near as many piled up in my inbox or my RSS reader. So I had time to read some other RSS feeds.
I’ve subscribed to a variety of RSS feeds over the years, every now and then I’ll prune one either when it gets too voluminous or when the quality drops. Some ‘experts’ may tell you otherwise but it is better to publish nothing than dribble as you risk alienating your subscribers and they along with frequent commenters (who are usually one and the same) are your most important readers.
I’ve actually written a lot about blogging and social networks, before it became a career and something to put on your resume. Recently I found a great job on LinkedIn, Indeed.com actually found it, but the fact it was posted to LinkedIn and undoubtably the employer looked at my profile along with my resume and cover letter, shows the importance of having your profile up to date and well written.
I also let LinkedIn have a look at my personal address book for the first time in the six years I’ve been using LinkedIn. I had something like 2000 addresses in my address book that are valid, approximately a third are in LinkedIn maybe and I added less than two dozen to my network. I’m still a big believer in being selective who you add to your network. Speaking of which, I think I was going to make sure my friend Kim and I were connected. Sometimes on LinkedIn I forget to Link in with my friends focusing instead on people I do business with. Some of my friends are pretty well connected.
I’ve never let Facebook see my address book either. I think it is less useful to me. Facebook is very useful if you are promoting an event or a brand or a product, but it also can be a huge time sync, one which after a couple weeks of novelty wore off for me years ago. I mainly check it on my iPhone while on the bus or waiting for the bus, that is about the priority it has in my life. LinkedIn on the other hand you’re promoting yourself.
Here are a few links I found while cleaning up my RSS reader:
- What recruiters think about LinkedIn
- I still don’t tweet for myself, but if I did, I might take Guy Kawasaki’s advice and use Twitbird
- Why LinkedIn profiles matter
- Nothing revolutionary, but four tips for using LinkedIn to get hired
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