In our 7th and final career break audio on tips for using LinkedIn if you are unemployed, networking author Diane Crompton has some advice.

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Share your status for a couple of reasons…

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Steve Tylock the Linkedin Personal trainer has our 6th career break audio on tips for using LinkedIn if you are unemployed.

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dont lower your professional status…take into account your personal brand

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Richard Kirby from Executive Impact has our 4th career break audio on tips for using LinkedIn if you are unemployed.

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do not brand yourself as unemployed or job seeker…attract recruiters with keywords

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Andy Hayes with Travel Online Partners has our 2nd career break audio on tips for using LinkedIn if you are unemployed.

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make it clear the value you add

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Danielle Beauparlant Moser, Career Strategist with the Blended Learning Team begins our new career break audio series on tips for using LinkedIn if you are unemployed.

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First, under professional headline, be sure to leverage your brand, that is, say what you DO! I could just say Career Coach on mine, but instead it’s my BRAND and reads: Career Strategist & Executive coach, teaching others to leverage social media to manage their careers! See the difference in the impact?

Next, under Current profession, leave it BLANK. If you put nothing under the section, it won’t show up under your public profile. The recruiters and hiring authorities with which I regularly network say they would rather see the current section blank than filled with nonsense like “CEO of Branding Me.”

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