Five Tricks to Boost Your Online Reputation and Land Your Dream Job
By Shannon Houde
As this great article on Forbes points out, ‘your actions + what others say about you = your reputation’. It’s a formula that I tell all my jobseeker clients to write on a brightly colored sticky note and pin to their desktop. Why? Because your reputation is your currency and it has a major impact on your employability – especially in the social media era.
The fact that hiring managers check LinkedIn to screen prospective candidates is not news and as a sustainability careers and executive coach, I’ve written countless blogs explaining how to make your professional profile shine.
Shannon Houde, MBA, is founder of Walk of Life Consulting Limited, an international career advisory business focused solely on the sustainability, social impact, international development and Corporate Responsibility (CR) fields. For more than 15 years she has mentored and trained 700+ professionals and Masters graduates to maximise their personal brands to advance their impact careers.
