John Lilley

LinkedIn with Twitter

John Lilley — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:38:23 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I found myself drawn away from using my usual www.ping.fm status broadcast tool. The reason? Simply because it was a fourth place I needed to go rather than inside of Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. These are the three tools where I use status updates the most. There is now an Application [...]

LinkedIn Applications - Wordpress

John Lilley — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:40:47 +0000

A few weeks ago LinkedIn added the feature to add applications to your profile page. I wanted to explore some of these and start to experiment in creating some learning material. Take a look at the small tutorial below and let me know what you think.

From hiring people to cutting people? I do not get it?

John Lilley — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:55:20 +0000

I have recently made a career move from the executive search industry to a management consultancy specialising in non-core expense reduction. One of the common questions I have been asked is how I can go from a business that creates roles and builds businesses to one that focuses on the reduction of costs and ultimately reduction [...]

How will people remember you or your personal brand? Do you care?

John Lilley — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:50:09 +0000

Over the past month I have started a new job and had the chance to speak with many talented, successful and professional individuals. It has been an exhilarating journey across many geographical and cultural boundaries. This is the basis of my passion for the franchising business model, seeing people from all kinds of backgrounds doing [...]

XING Expanding its European Reach

John Lilley — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:18:20 +0000

Xing’s parent company, OPEN Business Club, has just announced that it has acquired a 100% interest Neurona, one of the largest business networks in Spain and Latin America, for an undisclosed amount. Neurona is a professional network that has a large number of users that are active in Internet companies, expanding its niche groups as well. [...]

1 in 5 Employers use social networking sites to research job candidates

John Lilley — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:56:46 +0000

A recent survey by CareerBuilder highlighted a fact that we have been aware of for a while. Whether you realise it or not you are being researched on the Internet. It is not limited to candidates for jobs either. I have found that during business development activity on the phone, there is a direct correlation [...]

Personal branding through generational changes

John Lilley — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:52:30 +0000

There has been a continued amount of coverage given to personal branding on the internet. Just last week I had an interesting exercise to complete that really got me thinking. The issue came during a planned career change. All of a sudden I had an entire new problem to solve. It was a little like [...]

Is there anything new about Personal Branding?

John Lilley — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:23:36 +0000

Having created a Google Alert to notify me of new web pages referencing Personal Branding it is amazing the amount of buzz that surrounds the topic. The buzz has got me thinking that the hype about selling yourself, differentiating yourself and promoting yourself is nothing new. I remember my Mother coaching me about it [...]

Now over 83% of recruiters use the Internet to dig up digital dirt

John Lilley — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:28:56 +0000

Just came across this article written by By SELENA DEHNE, JIST PUBLISHING backing up one of the new facts of life. People are looking for you online. In fact it seems Execunet has updated it’s percentages. They are now saying over 83% of recruiters use the Internet to check on candidates. The article is based on recruitment [...]

XML Site Maps and All in one SEO for WordPress

John Lilley — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:01:49 +0000

All in one SEO and Google XML Site map generator