Tag Archive: LinkedIn

New Site Updated

We’ve built a new web site platform here, with entirely new features, social media integration, that we think will serve both California contract work seekers and California employers, HR, and hiring managers better. If you were an RSS feed subscriber, please re-subscribe to our new feed. You will only ever have to do this once.

Promoting Yourself as a Free Agent

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Someone asked in a recent [webinar] how one can promote one’s talents and availability as a free agent. First, of course, there’s no substitute at all for the direct route: you’re hitting the virtual pavement to schedule interviews just like ordinary employment seekers. Use indeed.com to aggregate a single search point for monster, careerbuilder, and…

Free Agent Source 2.0

Back in September (2009) when FreeAgentSource.com went up, I posted this quote: ”If you’re not somewhat embarrassed by your 1.0 product launch, then you’ve released too late.“ Reid Hoffman - founder, LinkedIn Fortune magazine, August 2009 . I’m not embarrassed now, which could mean we took too long to deliver the second version.  Nevertheless with this hurdle done, incremental improvements…

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