Brenda Burch Dumont's Blog

As we all become more and more accustomed to using social media for recruiting, overall and employment branding, sales, and customer service, it is often difficult to determine single factors that may improve either building your business brand or finding a job.

I am building a different awareness within my lifelong brand of Brenda Dumont.  To explain better, I have had a recognizable brand with Dumont & Associates Retail Recruitment Ltd. and www.canadianretail.com but my latest brand (and likely my last) is for Brenda Dumont Consulting which provides consulting services of all sorts to the retail community in Canada.  (Heck, if someone called me from Maui, I’d go and consult with them too!).

I have a carefully selected list of connections on LinkedIn.  (How I select them and why is likely a good consulting topic or another blog).  In order to leverage this list and take advantage of the fact that each Recommendation is posted on every person’s home page of those in your network, I asked some colleagues and clients for a Recommendation.  I had a few from co-workers, clients etc from when I first signed on to LinkedIn and they were great, but didn’t reflect my character and capabilities today or my capabilities with my new social media consulting gig.

Most of the people to whom I requested a recommendation responded.  Boy, did they respond and I will be eternally grateful to all who took the time to carefully compose and send their recommendations.  Here are the recommendations I received -

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The point of seeing my recommendations is to see how subtly and socially prospective clients could see my capabilities, character, work ethic, strengths, etc. while seeing who is doing the recommending and their level and expertise.

Anyone building a new business, or an existing one, or who is looking for a job should have a good number of current recommendations for the above purposes.

Have I had any results from including these recent recommendations?  You bet!  Other factors may have been considered, but I have been asked to sit on a panel at the upcoming Retail Council of Canada’s HR conference and over the last week I have received requests for three proposals for consulting work.

LinkedIn is quickly becoming a must-use tool for a variety of reasons, which is probably either a consulting session or another blog!

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