Company Page on LinkedIn: Grow your audience (Tip #2)

October 15, 2020 | CareerAngels | International Job Hunting

This tip series was prepared with the following professionals in mind:

  • HR professionals who want to ensure that their prospective candidates will find the necessary info on their company on LinkedIn; it’ll help you in talking with your marketing departments to create beautiful and effective employer branding materials!
  • Independent consultants, especially for executives turned freelancers (often out of necessity as they are in-between jobs) – to help them improve their branding and first impression on LinkedIn
  • anybody else who’s interested in the subject!

Let’s get right to it: Tip #2 out of 8:
#1: Complete all details

#2: Grow your audience

Now that you’ve completed all the information on your Company Page, you can start thinking about growing your audience. According to LinkedIn, once a page reaches 150 followers, the opportunity for growth becomes exponential.

Here are some tips on how to reach that milestone as fast as possible and continue growing even bigger:

  • Find out who your target audience is. See what topics and articles they’re already engaging with and incorporate that kind of content into your own.
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#WiseWednesday: Colin Powell

October 14, 2020 | CareerAngels | International Job Hunting

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” by Colin Powell

LMGTFY: Colin Powell (born 1937), American politician and diplomat. The first African-American Secretary of State. Served as the 16th United States National Security Advisor and as the 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Powell received the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice.

Hidden Job Market Y20W42

October 12, 2020 | CareerAngels | Generating Job Offers

This week we’ve researched job ads for executives across Europe and have found 31 gems like the following:

  • [RO] Applications License Sales Manager – ECE @ Oracle
  • [SK] HR Director East Europe @ Lenovo
  • [CZ] Regional Head Tax Operations @ Novartis
  • [PL] Medical Head Sanofi Pasteur Poland @ Sanofi
  • [BE] Technology Strategy Senior Manager @ Accenture Belgium

Here the full list:

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We asked: how do you weather your personal tsunami?

October 12, 2020 | CareerAngels | Our Updates

Looking only at data is definitely not enough. At Career Angels, we also speak with C-level executives, HR Directors, Executive Search Consultants – you’ll find our weekly quantitative and qualitative reports on Market Signals. Some of them allow us to record these conversations and their insights for our audience!

This recording features: Alessandro Torresani, Area Sales Manager Eastern Europe at Contraload. More about him below.

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Where will you meet us?

October 12, 2020 | CareerAngels | International Job Hunting

Do you want to follow the know-how of Career Angels? Learn about the latest trends? Data? Methodology? Read this blog post to get access to one of our many lectures, webinars, podcasts, webcasts, training sessions and alike!

This week (#42):

Date: October 14 – in the evening
For: WU Executive Academy
Speaker: Sandra Bichl
Topic: “Crisis-proofing your career”

Date: October 15 – afternoon
For: Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business
Speaker: Sandra Bichl
Topic: “Optimise your career search strategy”

Date: October 18 – all day
For: Warsaw University of Technology Business School 
Speaker: Urszula Rapacka, Anna Zadrożna
Topic: “Career Planning”

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Market Signals (Week 41)

October 10, 2020 | CareerAngels | Our Updates

Because of how we work when supporting our clients, we have a very unique “glimpse” into how over 5000 Executive Search companies and almost 20 000 decision makers react – the majority of which being located in Europe; and we collect and analyze how they respond; and we observe if and what kind of trends there are to leverage them into better career management & more effective job search methods.

Before there are trends, there are signals which we usually keep to ourselves. But these are not usual times, so we decided to share those market signals by the end of each week. If the country / context is important, we’ll add them. Otherwise, we’ll keep it general for confidentiality.

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Introduction to Market Signals (Week 41)

October 9, 2020 | CareerAngels | Our Updates

Before there are trends, there are signals! One KPI that Career Angels track to observe changes on the job market is the number of published job ads on LinkedIn.

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Free Materials: How to find and contact recruiters & companies; how to network

October 9, 2020 | CareerAngels | International Job Hunting

Dozens of the approx. 1000 participants from all over the world have spontaneously expressed that our webinars are “the best they’ve seen currently being offered for professionals / managers / executives looking for a job or trying to stay in control of their careers”.

From April 14 to June 10, 2020 we conducted 2 editions of 4-module Open Webinars on job search & career management where we shared over 32h of practical tips & know-how. And although the Open Webinars initiative has come to an end, we’ve decided to keep the content available – completely free of charge!

The four online sessions will guide you through the job search process step-by-step.

Module 3: How to find and contact recruiters and companies and how to network
Speaker: Sandra Bichl
From the recording, you will find out how effective job search channels have been in the last 3 years:
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