Get a Job and Get Noticed By Taking Full Advantage of LinkedIn’s Capabilities
Get a Job and Get Noticed By Taking Full Advantage of LinkedIn’s Capabilities
With the release of my new book, How to Reinvent Your Career: Make Money Doing What You Love, I have been talking with a lot of people about ways for job seekers to get noticed. If you are currently in the market for a new job, don’t under estimate the importance of utilizing sites like Linkedin. In a radio interview I did yesterday, talk show host, Anna Banks, and I discussed the value of Linkedin for the job seeker. To listen to that interview, click here. If you have not had a chance to take full advantage of what LinkedIn has to offer, take a moment to check out some of the links provided in this article to help you increase your exposure on their site to get noticed by prospective employers.
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Southcoasttoday.com reported, “LinkedIn has become the new resume, so the importance of it from that regard cannot be understated for job seekers. Recruiters and hiring managers use LinkedIn as their primary research tool. Job seekers should ensure that their LinkedIn site tells their story well, uses key words that are likely to be searched, and includes a downloadable resume using a tool such as Slideshare, which is available on LinkedIn”
I personally also recommend considering importing presentations from Google Docs into your LinkedIn profile to showcase your talents. To see how to do this click here.
How big is LinkedIn? According to Bakersfield.com “LinkedIn boasts of 80 million members in more than 200 countries. A recent post on Mashable.com notes the growing number of places recruiters are posting jobs, with LinkedIn at the top of the list. ”
If you are interested in reading more about Linkedin and ways to use it to find a job, check out some of these articles:
Monitoring Your Online Reputation
Using Keywords to Optmize Your Linkedin Site
How to Look Amazing on LinkedIn
Asking People to Join You on LinkedIn
The Top 5 Ways You Should Be Using LinkedIn to Find a Job
I am always on the lookout for articles about careers, social networking and education. I hit the trifecta when I discovered Linkedin was offering Career Explorer for graduates. TechCrunch recently a very interesting article they posted about the use of LinkedIn for students needing help with their career path. The following is an excerpt from that article:
LinkedIn is launching a new data-focused feature, called LinkedIn Career Explorer, that provides college graduates with insights from other LinkedIn members to help them visualize a career path.
Career Explorer leverages data from the professional social network’s 80 million members to help students visualize and map successful career paths in a variety of industries. The product also shows college students job opportunities and salary information, the type of education and experience required, and will indentify people who can help them find these jobs.
So students can specify a type of job that they want to pursue or the company they want to work for and LinkedIn will show professionals who have succeeded in similar endeavors. Students can also access the best contact within their networks for certain fields or companies, and LinkedIn will recommend job openings.
The new feature will lead students to the Company Profiles (LinkedIn now has over 1 million profiles on the network), and encourage users to “follow” those companies to receive updates, including job postings, new hires and more.
Career Explorer is currently being rolled out to students at 60 universities in the U.S. and will eventually expanded to users from other educational institutions. The feature seems fitting for the platform and will no doubt provide a unique way for college students to see the career paths of those who have reached success in particular industries. Also, Career Explorer is a way to attract college students (and perhaps even ambitious high school students) as members of the community and perhaps gain loyalty among this age group.
To read the complete article click here.