Career Development
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How to Leverage the LinkedIn Algorithm to Boost Your Business and Profile
By Lynne Williams The LinkedIn algorithm seems to be mysterious and ever-changing. Some recent research from the Netherlands may help you with your LinkedIn strategy. If you understand a little about the algorithm, you can leverage how you approach LinkedIn to build your business and/or profile. Two connections in my network have shared the latest…
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How to Use Hacks at Your Virtual Events for a Fun Factor
By Lynne Williams Want to improve your online host skills or add a fun factor to your virtual events? I have several new hacks and resources to share. Also included below are a couple of events I attend weekly. LinkedIn Events On October 22, 2020, LinkedIn Marketing hosted a live webinar to share new updates…
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Career Management & LinkedIn for Veterans
The Out of the Box Veteran Employment Strategies career panel event is on Friday, October 16 starting at 9 AM, so register on Eventbrite. Hire vets. Our military needs support with jobs to help reduce the number of veteran job seekers. In September 2019, the US Department of Labor noted 3.2% of veterans were unemployed…
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American Airlines Announces Hundreds Furloughed Out of Philadelphia
American Airlines announced it is furloughing hundreds of employees in Philadelphia, part of 19,000 nation, reports Corey Davis for 6abc.com. When CARES Act money ran out at midnight Oct. 1, and with no new federal relief package in sight, American Airlines had no other option. The pandemic has hit the airline industry hard, with air…
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The Self-Employed, Consultant, or Solopreneur on LinkedIn
By Lynne Williams Are you sending a sales pitch when connecting with people on LinkedIn, or are you making an effort to start building a relationship first? Hopefully, it’s the latter. As a self-employed sole practitioner, I am a member of the “job seeker” club with the millions of others searching for jobs. However, I…
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Founder of Girls Auto Clinic in Upper Darby Working to Bring More Women of Color to the Auto Industry
Patrice Banks is working to bring women of color into the auto industry and counter the silence coming from the industry over the Black Lives Matter protests, writes Courtney Duchene for thephiladelphiacitizen.org. Banks, a Black woman, is a mechanic and the 2017 founder of the Girls Auto Clinic in Upper Darby. “I struggled a lot…
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Forbes: See Which 3 Delaware County Companies Made the Top List of Best Employers in PA
Three businesses located in Delaware County made the top 100 list of best employers in Pennsylvania. Forbes partnered with market research company Statista to identify organizations most liked by their employees in that nation and by state, writes Vicky Valet for Forbes.com. The survey interviewed 80,000 Americans working for businesses with at least 500 employees…
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Power Home Remodeling CEO Promotes Benefit of the Office Community Over Stay-At-Home
Power Home Remodeling in Chester is consistently ranked as a top workplace in the country. Working in an office community could be one of the reasons, says Power Home CEO Asher Raphael in an interview with David Murrell for phillymag.com. Even though Power Home has closed its offices since mid-March out of concern for people’s…
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“The Karens” and Other Name Topics on LinkedIn
By Lynne Williams Don’t shoot the messenger, especially if your name is Karen, Becky, Caroline, Patty, Gail, or Ann. Knowledge is power. Here’s research to learn more about the onslaught of nicknames and monikers, which are now memes. As an Ed.D. (Doctor of Education) Candidate, I have taken courses over the past six months. The…
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July Unkind to Pennsylvania’s Unemployment Recovery Rate
Pennsylvania is the state with the eighth-worst unemployment recovery rate in the nation in July, according to a new report by WalletHub. To determine the ranking for States Whose July Unemployment Rates Are Bouncing Back Most, WalletHub compared the 50 states and District of Columbia based on four key metrics. According to WalletHub, “We looked…
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Vette, an ‘Uber for Job Phone Interviews,’ Saves Hiring Managers Time With Experts Vetting Candidates
Villanova University graduate and recruiter Amber Wanner was having to pay experts to interview tech job candidates because she lacked the expertise to properly vet them. Then she created the new tech platform company, Vette, writes Michelle Caffrey for Philadelphia Business Journal. Vette is “Uber for phone interviews.” The platform lets employers or recruiters connect…
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Have You Examined Your Spots and Stripes on LinkedIn?
What is your cattitude on LinkedIn? With a little imagination, you can find spots and stripes on LinkedIn, though we’ll substitute “lines” for stripes. Please participate in the poll at the end as your opinion matters. SPOTS Have you ever noticed that you see a solid green spot (or circle) next to someone’s name on…
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Ubuntu, Attitude, & How to Upload LinkedIn Documents
By Lynne Williams Ubuntu, a South African Zulu word, is a philosophy of the spirit of humanity. It means “I am who I am because of who we all are.” How does ubuntu relate to selflessness? Selflessness is about people who are concerned about the needs of others over one’s own self. Self-reflect and think…
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Resume Tips for LinkedIn & Google
By Lynne Williams Often, I am asked if people should include their resume on their LinkedIn profile. It depends on what YOU want to do. I would not upload my resume. Many people may disagree with this, but here are some considerations to ponder as you decide. If you post your resume on LinkedIn, you…
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Aldan Woman Un-retiring Was Best Thing That Could Have Happened to Her Rite Aid Customers
She’s the oldest clerk at Upper Darby’s Rite Aid and she’s happy to be there, writes Marc Narducci for The Philadelphia Inquirer. In fact, for Connie Kleinschmidt, 84, this is just the latest in a couple of post-retirement jobs. Retirement, she said, is overrated. She had been working at Verizon (formerly Bell Telephone ) for…
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Let LinkedIn Record & Display Your Name Pronunciation
By Lynne Williams Living between our dashes from birth to death, we should consider ourselves a work in progress to become more linguistically and culturally competent. There should always be room for improvement when it comes to cultural intelligence. What is cultural intelligence? Like emotional intelligence, or EQ, cultural intelligence, or CQ, consists of four…
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Neumann Professor’s Study Finds Blacks Are Over-represented in Jobs Vulnerable to COVID-19 Impact
A study by Dr. Nathan Hardy, assistant professor of Marketing at Neumann University in Aston shows Blacks are under-represented when it comes to holding management positions, yet over-represented in healthcare and government work, and in jobs that deal directly with the public that can’t be done remotely, reports hudsonvalleypress.com. Even with employment growth from 2016…
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How to & Why LinkedIn Publishing
By Lynne Williams The Jeopardy answer is … be like Nike as Just Do It! The Jeopardy question is, What if I am scared to write an article on LinkedIn? Just start! You don’t make the NFL or get the first violin chair without practice. In the past week, a couple of attendees in my…
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