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What happened when someone had their LinkedIn photo stolen by another LinkedIn member

I want to share a funny occurrence that has happened to me 4 times over the last few weeks that has made me smile, and may well have happened to you as well!  When someone likens you to someone else - do you laugh, smile or cry? (I guess that depends on who it is […]

Why new clients won’t make contact with you on LinkedIn

Today I was asked by a good friend (MD of a large company) to help them identify some recruiters for them to help them with some interim roles. No problem I said, my LinkedIn network is fairly good, so that is where I started. Should be easy I said! This is where my frustrations started. […]

Recruiters: Are you negligent if you don’t have a large LinkedIn network?

I haven't been too contentious recently, (well, other than a recent conversation regarding a poor career site with a client), so I wanted to share a discussion that I have challenged several recruitment (agency) clients with recently. It usually provokes an interesting debate! Here goes. First some LinkedIn recruitment 'facts': 1. It is 'accepted' that […]

10 Ways To Improve Your LinkedIn Brand

LinkedIn is an awesome social network for our industry as it offers us so much on so many levels. However to many it is still a bit of an enigma. It is ever changing, confusing, large (in terms of all the functions you can use), and definitely confusing to many people.For people like me who […]

Remember, LinkedIn is great but it isn’t the only recruitment option

  Something really interesting has come up three times in separate conversations over the last two weeks, that I believe will become more of a trend over the next 12 months. The subject matter was LinkedIn, Job Boards and Recruitment Agencies - let me explain. First I need to point out that the conversations I […]

10 Reasons Why I UnFollow, UnFriend and Disconnect People From My Social Networks

Today was one of those mornings in my LinkedIn and Twitter feeds - massive duplication, lazy posting, jobs and people talking utter rubbish! Time to unleash the sabre……. and cut them out of my networks!  I have no obligation to have these people in my networks. I have connected, friended and followed them because I […]