As you read this, there’s a good chance you or someone close to you is undergoing significant hardship and maybe, even loss as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. I cannot fully understand the breadth of what you may be going through and things are rocky in my world as well. Face to face certification-led […]
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10 Mistakes to Avoid When Job Hunting on LinkedIn
Rethink, refresh, rejuvenate What would you do, if you saw in your Linkedin feed this morning, a request to connect by someone whose headline indicated they were either “jobless” or “unemployed”? Chances are that you would likely ignore the request or the profile. Understandable. “I’m jobless” In the last few years, I’ve seen anywhere between […]
Build More Influence
This is the transcript from the TEDx talk I delivered at TEDx UUM in March 2018. 11 years ago, in the home office of my two-bedroom apartment, I started a magazine. It was called HR Matters and it was a quarterly human resource publication. There was no other HR magazine at the time in Malaysia. […]
How to Better Engage With Your LinkedIn Network
A two-pronged approach for success: presence and engagement I’ve covered a few areas now about how to be effective on LinkedIn. I’ve looked at whether you need a LinkedIn profile and then, creating a compelling presence. I’ve also touched on how to start a conversation with someone new on LinkedIn. Here, let’s examine how to better engage […]
Do You Need a LinkedIn Profile Today?
[ Something in addition to your résumé ] Unless you’re working the fry machine at McDonald’s and don’t care about corporate ladders and ambition or you’re a superstar athlete or singer, I believe you could seriously benefit from having an effective LinkedIn profile. Now owned by Microsoft, LinkedIn claimed 500 million users of its network in […]
Learning by Doing
[ Trial and error as the way forward ] Many people who are reluctant to start writing are driven by an understandable fear : the fear of what others might say; the fear that they may not be good enough; the fear that they have nothing intelligent to add to the discussion; the fear that […]
How to Start a Conversation with Someone New on LinkedIn
[ More than just sending connection requests out, you want to develop a relationship ] What do you typically say when you send out a connection request? Do you consider this first step an important part of the process of building a new connection? And when the other person decides to accept, how do you […]