What are all the ways that you can find a job on LinkedIn?
You know, the ones above and beyond LinkedIn Jobs. Well, in this video,
I'm going to be sharing with you all of my LinkedIn job search tips.
Hopefully you saw my last video about LinkedIn job search,
and how to use LinkedIn jobs to help you find your dream job.
But that was just the tip of the iceberg.
There is so much potentialm and so much opportunity to find a job using
LinkedIn, including several ways that most people don't think about.
If you're ready to take your LinkedIn job search to the next level,
just give that like button a gentle tap, and let's get into it.
The first thing that you need to do is,
you need to make sure that you are open to new opportunities on LinkedIn.
Did you know that every day,
2.7 million recruiters are
using LinkedIn to find their dream candidate.
And while some indiscriminately search.
A ton are really focused on the people that are open to hearing about new
opportunities. My question for you is,
is that the setting that you have on your profile
right now to make sure that you are open to new opportunities on LinkedIn,
let's actually head into the application so I can show you
exactly where you can go to make sure that it's turned on. Okay,
we're in LinkedIn now.
I'm going to show you where you can go to make sure that it is set,
that recruiters know that you were interested.
So what you're going to do is ,you're going to go to the dropdown at your
profile so you can see me and you're going to go to settings and privacy.
This is going to open in a new tab,
and you're going to scroll down to job seeking preferences here.
You can see that you can let recruiters know that you're open to
new opportunities.
You can see that my setting is know if you need to change it, click change.
You're going to toggle it on and it is going to save.
And now recruiters are going to be able to see that the second
LinkedIn job search tab that I have for you seems pretty obvious,
but it's actually really important for ways that you might not be thinking
about. And that is making connections. Obviously,
LinkedIn is a social network. It's a professional social network,
but it's a social network. Nonetheless,
you're supposed to be connected with the people that you know,
in real life and even online,
in addition to it being a great tool for you to use,
to stay in touch with your professional contacts and to grow and maintain
relationships. It's also a great way for you to expand your circle.
Now, LinkedIn networking for job search is something.
That I can talk about for quite some time.
If you do want me to make a video on that,
let me know in the comments down below.
But beyond the actual connections and the relationships
that you can build and cultivate on LinkedIn,
there is another benefit that you actually rank higher in search. Obviously,
LinkedIn doesn't give all of their secret sauce in terms
of how they actually rank people in their algorithm. But one of the ways,
if you look at search results,
like I'm going to show you one screen right now is definitely the
degree of connection that you have to a person at that company.
If you think about it, if a recruiter is coming into LinkedIn
and searching for their ideal candidate,
you are they going to be able to find you,
how are you actually ranking in the search?
Now you do have to have an optimized profile.
And I do have a video on that,
that I'll link down below that you should definitely check out.
But if you happen to be a second degree connection,
you have a better chance of landing on the first page of their search results.
Nevermind the fact that you have that mutual connection
is going to make them more likely to actually look at you because, Hey,
we love hiring friends of friends.
So if you haven't already get to connecting and we're going to move
into our third LinkedIn job search strategy,
and that is using groups when LinkedIn groups were introduced,
they were kind of thing, but this is going back a lot of years
and they're not really getting prioritized in the newsfeed these days that said,
LinkedIn groups are not totally dead.
There's a lot of groups that are actually very active and that people go in are
actually posting on.
Nevermind. If you join groups that are dedicated to your role.
Your industry, you can actually get to know people by interactinh
with posts in that group. A great example is,
there's actually a few different groups for customer success professionals,
which are very lively. They actively have posts,
and they actively have people sharing when there's a job opportunity at their
company. And you know when they're posting in there,
it's because they want to refer someone and maybe
get that referral bonus on to find a group.
What you can do is just search by our job title or searched by your industry,
filter for groups and see what size the group is, how active it is.
You can join a few. You can always leave if it's not really for you. And again,
it's not generally going to be cluttering up your newsfeed,
but who knows it might be a great resource.
And it's something that is very simple to do.
Plus if you're in that group and you start actually adding to that group,
people may actually approach you about opportunities at their company.
So that's just a little added LinkedIn job search tip for you.
My next LinkedIn job search tip is to,
to take advantage of the newsfeed. And there's a few ways you can do it,
this to support you in your job, search on LinkedIn. First,
obviously reading posts to see if anyone is posting about active
opportunities, especially if you have a dream company that you want to work at,
you can connect with or follow the recruiters at that company,
because they generally are going to actually post the jobs that they list on
LinkedIn. Also watch for your connections because they are going to be posting
when they are hiring,
especially if they are having a hard time finding the right
person for the role and in the context that we're in right now.
So if you're watching this right, as this comes out, people are also posting.
That they're also just very willing to help with your job search.
If you have been impacted by what's going on, do stay tuned,
because this is also a great way to actually engage with your network,
start to expand your circle as well.
I also want you to make sure you're taking advantage of the newsfeed
and have LinkedIn posts and the potential that they give you to be seen.
And I know that this intimidates a lot of people,
but occasionally making posts on LinkedIn that demonstrate your
expertise and everything that you have to offer is
basically breadcrumbs to your awesomeness.
It's a great way for people to find you,
but it's also a great thing on your profile. When someone checks you out,
when they are considering calling you in for an interview or offering you a job.
And when you are taking advantage of the LinkedIn newsfeed.
The next thing that I want you to do to help you find a job using LinkedIn
is to explore hashtags in a few weeks,
I'm going to do an entire video on LinkedIn hashtags,
because there are something that I think are just really under leveraged on the
platform, but there are some simple hashtags that you can actually look
in as part of your LinkedIn job search strategy. For example,
you can look at hashtag hiring as of making this video.
It has more than 2 million posts in there.
And if you are making posts using the relevant hashtags for your job
or for your industry or another way that can actually boost your discoverability
on LinkedIn,
the most important LinkedIn job search tip that I have for you is to really
focus on discoverability.
Remember those 2.7 million recruiters I talked about earlier?
They're on there and they're looking for people to bring in for an interview and
potentially hire.
And as I asked you before, if they're looking for you.
Can they find you making sure that you have a robust LinkedIn profile
and that it is optimized for discovery is really essential to making sure
that not only are you going to be more successful when you are
LinkedIn job search and applying for jobs,
it's also going to help recruiters come to you.
And I can assure you that that is the best seat for you to be in because when
they find you,
you are basically starting off ahead of the start line from everyone else.
There's a few high impact areas on your LinkedIn profile that you
will want to focus on as part of your optimization.
And I have videos coming out on all three of those.
If you have it already consider subscribing and clicking that notification bell.
So you do not miss them. In the meantime,
I would love for you to check out this video that gives you eight tips
to stand out on LinkedIn, to help you in your job search as always,
thank you so much for watching. If this video was helpful, give it a like,
let me know in the comments down below which one was a surprise
to you and I'll see you in the next video! Bye for now.