Love collaboration? Helping folks gain visibility and clients for their businesses? Love coordination? Love laughter?
Then, you might be right for Pure Visibility’s Relationship Manager position. Please check out our Relationship Manager position opening.

Pure Visibility is looking for a curious, enthusiastic Internet search analyst that believes in a bright future with our growing team! The ideal candidate will have experience in creating and implementing visionary strategies in B2B and B2C environments.

With a strong backbone for business analysis this individual will be able to map client’s business goals to an Internet marketing strategy that turns the clients site into an online sales engine. Speaking fluently in margins, profit, and ROI this analyst will tell stories that clients understand. This team member will have the ability to see the big picture while developing, launching, managing and optimizing paid search, organic visibility, and social media campaigns for clients across multiple search engines. This position has a high level of client exposure ranging from providing timely and insightful analysis and reporting of online activities to conducting coaching sessions and training classes with clients.

Interested individuals should submit their resume and cover letter by July 16, 2010 to jobs@purevisibility.com.

If you’ve been lucky enough to hear John Hill speak, then you can skip this post. He’s positively brilliant about explaining how LinkedIn is a cornerstone of any job search.

I wrote two years ago in this blog how shocked I was that students are not counseled by career services in networking online; and today I’m glad that people like John and Terry Bean are out there preaching, because the situation hasn’t changed nearly as much as it should.

In talking recently with a current student at the University of Michigan, I was encouraged to hear they were counseled to “reach out to friends and relatives” – terrific advice. But the idea of doing that through LinkedIn as well as the real world hadn’t been broached.(!) While I’m sure that the UM is so large that it’s happening in some places and not others, my point is that LinkedIn coaching is still not standard practice at many educational institutions.

Why am I so passionate about this? In part, I know too many people looking for jobs. It’s a tough time to be in Michigan. But it’s also a great time to be in Michigan! There are people creating jobs in all sorts of places! And where are you going to find the movers and shakers? Online.

Who’s connected to the movers and shakers? Build a network in LinkedIn, and you’ll have access to the address book of everyone you know. Then look up a company you want an intro to, and find out who can make the intro for you. Easy peasy.

Then learn how to ask for an intro. It’s an art. Learn what a good ask looks like. Talk to Terry Bean – he is a great coach at the ASK. He’s also got a great book on business networking that ought to be required reading for anyone in a job search – the same rules apply. For nine bucks you can’t afford not to check it out.

John has some great tips on the ask, too. In particular, he suggests tapping into alumni networks. He’s done an exemplary job of building the MSU alumni network – and using it to help students – and the university make helpful connections. Every college needs someone like John!

If you haven’t already checked in out, LinkedIn has added an invaluable job search feature. You can search jobs by keyword and by zip – both within LinkedIn and through the aggregator Simply Hired. Take a gander if you’re doubtful about the existence of jobs in Michigan. My bet is that you’ll be (pleasantly) surprised.

Happy hunting!

We’re hiring!

We are looking for an enthusiastic Internet Search Analyst to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience developing, launching, managing, and optimizing paid search, organic visibility, and social media campaigns for clients across multiple search engines. This position has a moderate level of client exposure ranging from providing timely and insightful analysis and reporting of online activities to conducting client training classes and coaching sessions. Google AdWords Certification is required. Google Analytics Individual Qualification is desired.

We are also searching for a dynamic Relationship Manager to serve as the main point of contact for many of our internet marketing campaigns. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and a proven track record of delivering quality service across multiple client engagements. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is desired. Industry experience preferred.

Follow this link for more details on the open Internet Search Analyst position.
Follow this link for more information on the open Relationship Manager position.

I’m not an early adopter – I just hang around a bunch of them.

By November 17, 2003, enough of these early adopter types (aka friends) had bugged me about LinkedIn that I finally felt compelled to sign up and give it a whirl. For a long, long time it was mostly my techie friends there. And not much happening.

Years later, when facebook took off and I became a Twitter addict, I figured LinkedIn was dead. Unlike these other social media tools, LinkedIn wasn’t “giving back”. You could collect data (ie make connections and add resume items) but beyond that, what was the use? It seemed limited to being a virtual file cabinet for resumes – and I’ve already got enough places to file things, thanks. Read More