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Quick Tip: Monday Is The Day For LinkedIn Endorsements LinkedIn launched a new feature a handful of years ago that lets you quickly and easily endorse people in your network for one or more skill sets they've chosen to list for themselves. Anyone who is actively looking for work right now should be striving to get endorsed often. Here's why... Recruiters Will Be Looking At Your LinkedIn Endorsements Before this feature was launched, people could "game" their profile for a type of job by filling it with skill sets—in other words, keyword-optimizing their LinkedIn profile—to ensure their profile showed up in a recruiter's proactive search for talent via LinkedIn. Simply fill your headline, "About" section (Summary), and "Experience" section (Work History) with these keywords and you were improving the chances you'd be looked at. You absolutely should optimize your LinkedIn profile, and this is a great strategy that most job seekers don't use, so you might have a competitive advantage over those people in your job search. The problem is just because you claim you have these skills, doesn't mean the rest of the world thinks you have them too. Endorsements solve that problem! Now, when a recruiter sees you say you are good at "sales" and it's validated by…

10 Tips For The Overworked, Burned Out Professional Are you suffering from job burnout? Job burnout is a very specific type of stress that differs from the stress that we experience as part of a "normal" life experience. The folks at the Mayo Clinic define job burnout as a "state of physical or emotional exhaustion that also involves a sense of reduced accomplishment and loss of personal identity." Having experienced a severe case of job burnout myself at one point in my professional life, I have some suggestions that I would like to share that might help you avoid or overcome the pain of burnout on the job. Try one or more of the following 10 tips if you're feeling overworked and burned out at work (I wish I had). 1. Drink The Recommended Amount Of Water & Make Healthy Eating Choices When feeling stressed, it is far too easy to default to eating for comfort instead of for health. "Comfort foods" are those that are high in fat and sugar, and they do, in fact, help you feel better because they boost the level of dopamine in your brain. In the long run, however, they do more harm than good. Your body needs the minerals and nutrients that whole foods offer. You also need to drink plenty of water to stay hydrated. Your body flushes out the toxins that it…

Top 3 Things US Pharma COOs Need To Think About In 2025 And Beyond Congratulations, it’s 2025 and you are now the COO of a major pharma (or life sciences) company. Right away you get to work improving your company’s value chain including all those activities and processes involved in creating whatever product or service is being offered. These challenges require at least a tertiary mastery of a myriad of operational topics (i.e., risk management, quality control, resource allocation, supply chain, technology, finance, strategic planning, etc.). You know that success (or failure) will ultimately impact the lives of patients or consumers (not to mention quite possibly the future of your own career) and you are worried that you may not be successful. Compounding the issue, it becomes increasingly necessary to consider the changing societal and technological landscape. Widening gaps between the economic classes and political parties are met with advancements in social technology and new ways of working. This all comes together to produce a landscape that has not seen this much tumult since the late 80s to early 90s when we witnessed the end of the Cold War and the rise of the internet. Back then we had to deal with factors like the debt crisis and globaliz…

6 Common Resume Mistakes You Must Avoid Although a resume is the first impression job seekers get to make, it's amazing how many people continue to gloss over errors. In today's job market, you need to make sure your resume is going to be read rather than quickly scanned and thrown away. You want your resume to impress the future employer reading it. So, do you know what your resume really says about you? Here are some typical resume mistakes job seekers make and how they translate to employers. 1. Forgetting To Proofread Your Resume Typos, misspelled words, and bad grammar mistakes can make a hiring manager think you're careless or won't pay attention to details on the job. Show you are serious about the job opportunity and capable of doing the job by choosing words carefully and catching any mistakes. 2. Including Too Much Information Including too much information can make employers think you aren't able to write clearly and concisely, which has become increasingly important in today's high-tech world. Your resume might not be read if it's too long, either. For an effective resume, focus on white space, bullet points, and quantifying your work experience. 3. Your Resume Is Poorly Organized A busy, cluttered resume may make employers think you a…

7 Ways To Actively Manage Your Career You go to work, you do your work, and you come home wondering where this is all going. You wonder what your next step is. What can you be doing to elevate your career? So, you ask your manager. And your manager stares at you blankly and points to your projects. You're confused and head back to your desk. It is too easy to continue this routine until you get frustrated with your current situation and start looking elsewhere. What's the problem with this story? You're not managing your career. You're doing your work, you're talking to your manager, but you aren't actively managing your career. You're actually looking for your boss to manage it for you. The problem is that your boss is busy managing their own career. So, you need to start managing yours. You need to own it. Far too many professionals today look to their managers to manage their career path and trajectory when, in fact, this is yours and yours alone to manage. It's so easy to get caught up in our work that we lose sight of our career. So, how do you manage your own career with confidence? Here are seven ways you can start managing your career today... 1. Set & Communicate Clear Goals The key to getting what you want is knowing what you want. You m…

How To Conduct A Stealth Job Search I was talking to a client recently who's conducting a stealth job search. A stealth job search is when you're currently working for an employer and you don't want them to know that you are looking for a better job. Now, this is dicey because if you start doing some of the techniques that are helping people get noticed on LinkedIn these days, you could draw attention to yourself. The number one way to get a white-collar job right now is to be very visible and active on LinkedIn. LinkedIn changed its algorithm recently, so now for you to be found by recruiters you have to be posting in your LinkedIn feed. It's not enough just to have a profile anymore. You actually need to have a content strategy if you want to be found by recruiters and hiring managers on LinkedIn. The problem with that is if you don't know how to post the right content when you're conducting a stealth job search, it can alert a lot of people at your current employer, maybe even your boss, leading them to ask you why you're posting so much content—and that can be awkward. I've actually heard of some people who got fired because the company found out they were actively looking for work. It's a buyer's market right now, meaning employers know that ther…

3 Soft Skills Every Great Leader Needs Soft skills get a bad rap. Yet more organizations are requiring development on the softer side than ever before. So, what's the deal? "Companies have moved away from the 'command and control' decision-making style," says Marie Holmstrom, the Charlotte, N.C.-based director of talent management and organization alignment with Towers Watson. "Managing day-to-day decisions takes away [leaders'] perspective and capacity to focus. Leaders must lead through others. You don't accomplish that only with technical skills. You have to have [those skills], but to achieve the next level of success, you have to be able to lead through others." Research from HBR states, "Once people reach the C-suite, technical and functional expertise matters less than leadership skills and a strong grasp of business fundamentals." In a nutshell, soft skills. Female traits are winning. There are a lot of experts jumping on the bandwagon of the evolving leadership model. Soft skills have always been at the heart of great leadership. With the research that John Gerzema and Michael D'Antonio have published in their recent book, we need to take note that two-thirds of survey respondents felt that "the world would be a better place if men thought …

How To Know When It's Time To Change Jobs Remember when you started at your current job? You may have felt excited about the opportunities that were ahead, and the new skills you were going to learn. Fast-forward to present you at your job. Do you have that same excitement? If not, you may want to consider switching jobs. Studies show that people who are mentally checked out on the job but not proactively looking for new work can end up becoming underperformers. In worst-case scenarios, these people could get fired for poor performance. You don't want that happening to you, right? We don't either. That's why we're giving you this three-step strategy to help you decide whether to leave your job or not. Understand The "Experience Learn = Grow" Model For Success It may be hard to hear, but if you aren't growing in your career, you're dying in your career. The experiences you're having at work should be building up your skills, not dragging you down. Every couple of months, take a step back and look at the work you've done. Have those work experiences made you learn and grow into a better professional? If they haven't, then you're not growing as a professional. That's a problem. Make Sure Your Work Is Enabling You To Grow In 3 Ways The experi…

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10 Things To Immediately Do On LinkedIn LinkedIn is the premier business networking site for job seekers and professionals at all levels. There are some things newbies need to know about LinkedIn before it will be a valuable tool for their job search, networking strategy, and overall career growth. In fact, whatever you're using LinkedIn for, you should follow these 10 tips. 1. Add A Photo What do you think on LinkedIn if you see someone without a photo? Well, you might think that they're not a very experienced or serious LinkedIn user, and you probably wouldn't want them in your network for this reason. You might even get the impression that they've got something to hide. Either way, there is nothing good about not having a photo. You want to seem approachable and professional on LinkedIn. You want to give the impression that you are active and invested in your career and an expert in your field—someone people would want to network with. Not having a photo automatically turns others off from your profile. So, don't skip it! 2. Join Groups Groups are how you get things done on LinkedIn. They're how you build credibility and expand your network as a professional. If you're also creating content on LinkedIn, groups allow you to distribute that con…