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Click the "Update" or "Cancel" links at the end | Hi Isodifj, Happy Halloween! My son Vaughn is excited to be Dusty the plane from the Planes movie just out this summer. (It'll be interesting to figure out how to build that out of cardboard boxes...LOL) Here's a picture of my dad and stepmom, Holly, who came up to visit us this summer to watch Vaughn in his 2nd triathlon. Resources - Excited to be interviewed for Fox News' Good Day Atlanta program this week and speaking at Agnes Scott University about "Defining your dream job and amping up your job search using the best online tools available these days." We started our Vanderbilt Career Intensive for alumni last week, you can download the introductory webinar for this program here. In This Issue - Don't get left out of LinkedIn Part II in our series about creating your LinkedIn profile. Remember, some employers report that up to 80% of their recruiting efforts are now conducted through LinkedIn! Complimentary Career Advice - YouTube
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Career Corner Improve your LinkedIn profile – Part II  Thank you to Stacy Santiago, one of our certified career coaches, for this article!
In our last newsletter, we talked about the importance of and how to begin to create your LinkedIn summary statement. This is a tricky process and most of us draw a blank on what to write! The following outline should help you focus on the anatomy of a sharp summary statement: The summary creation formula: 1. Blend your unique talent (brilliance) and career mission statement (purpose) together in a brief, descriptive first person narrative. This highlights your best skills, greatest value, and how you most want to use them. 2. List or describe your accomplishments or client scope to prove results and indicate professional impact. 3. List your specific expertise and skills that makes you valuable and demonstrates what exactly you have to offer. Because understanding this is easier said than done, I’ve included an example of a successful LinkedIn summary that a client and I created together: Hello and thank you for viewing my profile! Passionate about emerging technologies, I apply 15 years of senior leadership experience to help organizations take new ideas and transform them into revenue generating products and solutions. I have managed large, complex programs for Fortune 100 companies combining the hard skills of an MBA with the softer skills of cross-functional team leadership at all levels. I take bold and creative measures to design technology programs from conception to tangible completion. Communicating fluently across technical and C-levels, I lead by motivating cross-functional teams and implementing a highly organized strategy that delivers powerful results. Selected Clients: General Motors, Proctor and Gamble, Gillette, Citigroup, The Word Bank, The United Nations, DoD I establish PMOs and direct multi-million dollar technology projects including: -
Cloud based solutions (40,000 end users and 300 facilities) -
Web and internet deployments (revenue generating web sites) -
Cisco networking, voice and data solutions (70,000 end users) -
Cisco Unified Communications (30,000 end users) -
Data Center modernization (modernization, VMWare and reduced footprint) -
VMWare deployments (server virtualization to consolidate and reduce servers) -
Wireless solutions (mobile, fixed wireless, and Wi-Fi) -
New Product launches (IPTV, Web services) Unified Communications Expertise: -
Technology strategy and leadership -
PMO establishment -
Project planning -
Directing project teams -
Business strategy -
Work stream management -
Requirements gathering -
User Acceptance Testing and technology turn-up -
Post-deployment planning” How do we know this works? This career coaching client started receiving daily phone calls from recruiters wanting to interview him! Remember, recruiters search LinkedIn daily for quality candidates and almost all employers will Google you before hiring you. *Would you like more help with identifying your ideal career? Contact us for a complimentary consultation.* We are filling spots for our most popular coaching service: Our Ideal Career Coaching Group, including unlimited individual coaching. Hear what others have to say about it here. "You helped me see the possibilities for my ideal career and enabled me to 'write my grocery list before I went to the store and bought the wrong stuff (again)' I am now in a job I truly enjoy!"
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