Did you know that LinkedIn recently added a new functionality allowing you to search the connections of your first-degree contacts individually ? I discovered this not long ago thanks to a post from Marla Tabaka at Inc.com, in which she covers recent changes to how you can update your LinkedIn profile. On this specific topic…
How to search the connections of one of your LinkedIn direct contacts
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How to make the most of the Skills feature on your LinkedIn profile
Have you visited your LinkedIn profile recently ? Adding skills to your profile has been around for a while now, but it was vastly under-used until a new feature was introduced in the past few weeks : the possibility to endorse others (and therefore be endorsed) for these skills. There is more than meets the…
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Mid-year review : the best of Compensation Insider
This post is dedicated to my readers, old and new. In the past 6 months, the number of people reading Compensation Insider has grown from 12-15 per day to about 100 per day. I am very happy and hope to continue to see growth in my readership as I believe in sharing information and points…
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Do you need to add email addresses to your LinkedIn account ?
Today’s Sunday Skills is an often neglected tip for LinkedIn. Nowadays, most professionals have their profile up on this networking site. If you don’t have a LinkedIn account yet, then it is time for you to go and register ! There are numerous advantages to being there and active in the community. LinkedIn is not…
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Enhance your Google search skills for Compensation research
We all use Google at least once a day. Yet, we have never been formally trained to perform efficient searches and apart from AND and OR, most users still type a question and hope for the “proper” answer. Let’s face it, when you are looking for targeted information (like when doing specific research for Compensation…
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Two uses of LinkedIn Groups for the Compensation professional
In today’s edition of Sunday Skills I want to cover a little-used source of information for Compensation & Benefits professionals. With over 150 million members, LinkedIn is a great repository of knowledge and goodwill. An obvious source of information and expertise is to browse the Answers section and look if anyone has asked a question…
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Get laser-focused Compensation information with Alerts
In today’s edition of Sunday Skills, I want to complement a recent post I made about RSS and how subscribing to different blogs, online newspapers / magazines and other websites can help a Compensation manager maintain their skills and industry knowledge – for free, in a just a few minutes per day. Google Alerts complement…
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