TAKEN FROM AN EMAIL WITH A POTENTIAL “TURKEY”

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Dear XXXX,

Read your message and can sympathize with the frustration that you are feeling. First, you’re “marketing”, so “market”. Have you networked with XXXXXXX at MC? Have you read the book “Job Changing at 100K”? (Ignore title; it has a great concept of ‘structured networking’.) I have some job search materials on my site http://goo.gl/kBtz (Feel free to ‘steal’ anything you find helpful.) If you offer me a LinkedIn connect, I’ll accept and you’ll have access to my contacts. http://www.jasperjottings.com/ has a slew of alumni info for networking ‘targets’. I’ll take a peek at your LinkedIn, Facebook, and other ‘stuff’ to see if I can spot anything.

/Signed/

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AND AFTER A FEW MINUTES

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OK! I’m back. It appears to me that:

(1) You have, in addition to this persona, one “dead” persona on LinkedIn. Suggest that you clean that up.

(2) You have no “web presence” that I can find. No website. No blog. No domain. So, you’re not “marketing” yourself.

(3) No Facebook? (A recruiter will think “hiding something”. “Everyone”, younger that 40, has Facebook. Note: We don’t want digital dirt. But we want a “professional” Facebook, with friends and family!)

(4) LinkedIn profile makes it look like your a job hopper with lots of jobs.

[JR: Note, every promotion is listed as a separate job. It looks “job hopper ish”; not “upwardly climbing”. You have 30 seconds to communicate to the person filtering; use it wisely.]

(5) LinkedIn profile doesn’t use all the features.

Yell if I can help,

/signed/

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