Stop the presses and pay attention because I have something really important to share
with you. LinkedIn has just released a new feature for their open candidate that I think
can amplify your marketing abilities to let your network know that you're currently open
to new opportunities out there. So if you're in career transition, I think this can be
extremely useful for you. It was just recently announced by LinkedIn. You may not even have
this yet in your area. As LinkedIn does roll things out in a, what I would say, a regional
type of a strategy. My name is bill Benoist. I'm a certified professional career coach
here in Silicon Valley. And let me show you how this works. So I've talked about LinkedIn
open candidate in earlier videos. It's a feature that allows you to signal recruiters, ones
that pay for the recruiter membership level on LinkedIn.
To let them know that you are open to discussing job opportunities. You can turn that on. So
it's only recruiters that will see that, or you can actually turn it on and let all of
your networks see that. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, or you have absolutely
no clue what, um, if you have this on or not, let me just show you real quickly, how to
turn it on, essentially on your main page here in LinkedIn, just go up here. The little
icon where it says me, click on that. And when that drops down, go into settings and
privacy, and you notice that you have four columns account privacy ads and communications.
You're going to be in the privacy column by default. You want to scroll all the way down
towards the bottom, down here, job seeking preferences, let recruiters know that you're
open to opportunities.
So if this says no, and you're in career transition, you're really hurting yourself by not turning
this on. So let's go ahead and turn this on. And I want to show you what happens next.
I'm going to go ahead and close this out and I'm going to go back to my LinkedIn account
and I'm going to go right in here to my profile. I'm going to click on my name and now you
see that it says I'm open to job opportunities. And you also notice that it's only recruiter.
So if you were right now to go to my profile, um, search me and bring it up on your, your
computer. You would not see that box there, but if you did have the recruiter level, you
would see it. This is what I want to show you this as a new feature, it was just released
with Lincoln.
I think it's so cool. We can go in here to little pencil. And I already got a couple
of things that I'm, uh, filled out already. I'm to sit there, owner San Francisco Bay
area, a couple of little things here immediately. I'm actively applying and no I'm going to
say, share with your recruiters. People who are using the recruiter product. I'm going
to drop down and look at this here, share with all LinkedIn members. And it adds an
open to work photo frame, brand new brand new just released. So I'm going to click on
that and now I'm going to hit save and watch what happens next. Click on startup
And look at this. It will go out to my network. Hi everyone. I'm looking for a new role and
would appreciate your support. Thank you in advance for any connections, advice are opportunities
you can offer, and then the hash symbol open to work. And I go ahead and post that. I'm
not going to do that right now because I'm not looking for going back into corporate
America, but you may. So what you see now, it's actually to open to all LinkedIn members,
which means that if you go to my profile, not only are you going to see this little
cool photo frame here, open to work, that you're also going to see this right here and
in, you can click on the details and you can see exactly what kind of positions that I'm
open for. So again, very cool. It was just released. It may not even be in your area
yet because I do know LinkedIn does roll things out in stages, but if you don't see it, look
for it, it should be coming soon.
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