Guest post by Plaxides Namutami In the high-stakes world of global business, there is a quiet, frustrating paradox: the most competent professionals are often the least visible. You have navigated cross-border mergers, managed diverse teams across time zones, and solved problems that would baffle most. You are, by every definition, a Global Rockstar. Yet, when a recruiter searches for your name or a potential partner visits your LinkedIn profile, they find a “digital ghost”, an outdated profile, a silent feed, or a narrative that belongs to a version of you from five years ago. And let’s not even talk about your headshot, made on your smartphone, and your CV that still looks like Times New Roman was a thing. In […]

These days, if you’re not on LinkedIn or any equivalent jobs platform, you’re either sitting on a large inheritance or seriously out of touch with the industry. For freelancers in particular and job seekers in general, having a digital presence is now perhaps as essential as being qualified to work, to begin with.

This post gives seven tips on why jobseekers and digital nomads need a digital presence. It also explains why this is needed and further resoures to work with.