LinkedIn is the premier social networking site for people in business. Not just for looking for new job opportunities but for connecting and staying in touch with your network.  So if you think you might like to move up or even along in your career anytime in your lifetime now is the moment to build and develop your LinkedIn profile; leaving it until you need to reach out is not the way to go.

Now is the time to address why you should be on LinkedIn, why you should commit to having a strong profile and to using this superb tool.  This is not a ‘how to’ guide but a ‘why to’
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I was watching a documentary on Apollo 13 last night – I like the film and imagined the documentary would add extra information. Actually it all turned out to be horribly cheesy; overly dramatic voice over and tedious music. What I did take away from it though was the – failure is not an option comment made by Gene Krantz the flight director – actually he never said these words but let’s not spoil a good story.
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In some circles the words, personal development, when put together, can almost seem to be offensive.

I noted from a strand in a LinkedIn discussion that they are almost offered with embarrassment as a suggested way of moving forward.

Why is that so? read more…

On our conference call today the broad subject was starting a business. As one of the topics was about deciding what that business might be I thought it might be a good subject for this week’s post?

There might be many reasons you would consider starting a business, a desire to set things in motion in your own style; a desire for autonomy; holding on to profits; freedom to set your own timetable of working – the list could be fairly extensive but one huge factor might be that in the current climate engaging and interesting jobs are a bit thin on the ground and of course the competition is fierce.

So maybe it is time to think of employing yourself? read more…