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You have less than 10 seconds to catch a recruiter’s attention, so don’t waste time using meaningless filler words. [Photo: Jacob Ammentorp Lund/iStock] By Anisa Purbasari Horton 4 minute Read Keeping your LinkedIn profile updated is an essential part of a job search. It’s  often the first resource recruiters and hiring managers turn to when they want to learn more about you. But because they have so many candidates to look through, their attention spans don’t last long. “LinkedIn Data shows you only have five to 10 seconds to impress a potential employer online,” according to a post on LinkedIn’s official blog . As a job seeker, this means that it’s extremely important to make sure you’re not giving your profile visitors any reason to close their tabs and forget about you.  Fast Company reached out to two career experts for tips on what you should cut from your LinkedIn profile. 1. Overused Buzzwords Every year, LinkedIn releases a ...

Written by James Anderson 1 day ago CHANNEL PARTNERS EVOLUTION — A sales expert gave an impassioned plea for partners to stop competition on price. Will Harris, managing director of Willpower Consultation , critiqued the aforementioned strategy on Tuesday morning at Channel Partners Evolution . “When you don’t know how to sell value, then it becomes impossible to sell against price,” he told the audience during his keynote speech. Harris argued that sales teams will get better at value-driven transactions if they incorporate a simple yet untapped strategy: social selling. “Social selling is using social media to make the connections with your potential customers to [make] a brand in terms of who you are,” he said. Partners have doubtless heard about social selling and social marketing before (we’ve written  about it multiple times ), but not everyone fully grasps just how effective they are. Harris said 60 percent of businesses with social...