Are You Linked In Or Linked Out in Your Job Search?

Are You Linked In or Linked Out? Using LinkedIn to Land Your Next Job April M. Williams  2009 CyberLife Tutors CyberLifeTutors.com

April M. Williams

Current

President, Owner CyberLife Tutors

Career Coach

"Networking Goddess"

Career

15 years Fortune 50 company experience

Program/Project Manager, Director

PMP, Six Sigma Green Belt Trained

Other

WITI Chicago Network Board

Owner/moderator Yahoo networking groups

April M. Williams CyberLifeTutors.com

Agenda

What is LinkedIn?

Open vs. Closed Network

Your Profile

Through Your Network You Can…

Did You Know?

Etiquette and Rules

In the News

Questions

What is LinkedIn ?

Online network

Six degrees of separation - a person is one step away from each person he or she knows and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people he or she knows, then everyone is an average of six "steps" away from each person on Earth.

All 500 of the Fortune 500 are represented in LinkedIn represented by director-level and above employees.

25+ million experienced professionals

150+ industries

Open vs. Closed Network

LinkedIn’s Approach: “A person should invite to connect only persons that they personally know.

LION’s Approach: Allow invitations from anyone as you never know who may be able to help you

Choosing "I don't know X" or marking an invitation as spam can cause LinkedIn to impose restrictions on the account of the inviting party

Your Profile

LinkedIn Overview

Membership

Your Profile

Connections

Importing Contacts

Network Statistics

Groups

Inbox

Messages

InMail

Introductions

Invitations

Recommendations

Company Profiles

Tool Bars

Google Page Ranking

Outlook Signatures

LinkedIn Blogs

Jobs

Q&A

Complete Profile

What makes your profile complete?

Your current position

Two past positions

Your education

Your profile summary

A profile photo

Your specialties

At least three recommendations

Through Your Network You Can

Find potential clients, service providers, subject experts, and partners who come recommended

Be found for business opportunities

Search for great jobs

Discover inside connections that can help you land jobs and close deals

Find high-quality passive candidates

Get introduced to other professionals through the people you know

Post and distribute job listings

Did You Know?

People with more than 20 connections are 34 times more likely to be approached with a job opportunity than people with less than 5.

Recruiters are 30 times more likely to get a response than cold calls or emails.

Users with complete profiles are 40 times more likely to receive opportunities through LinkedIn.

Etiquette and Rules

Be positive

Help others

Customize your communications

Keep your profile updated

Professional photo

Don’t put your email address in your profile

CyberLife Tutors in the News

Wall Street Journal

"How to Handle a Job Offer You Can't Afford" Wall Street Journals' Joann Lublin interviews April M. Williams on evulating a low ball job offer December 2, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/WSJ-CyberLifeTutors

Savvy Magazine

"Improve Your Job Search With Project Planning" Savvy Magazine talks with April M. Williams and Mark Cummuta about using project management techniques in your job search Pages 18-20 http://www.witi.com/wire/WITI_SAVVY_Summer_08.pdf

Project Management Institute (PMI) Chicagoland Chapter

September 2008

"A Very Important Project: Career Transition" Janet Smietana, PMP interviews April M. Williams, Pages 13-14 http://tinyurl.com/CyberLifeTutors-PMI Nation's Restaurant News "Starting an Alumni Group" Nora Caley interviews April M. Williams on starting an alumni group for co-workers http://www.nrnjobplate.com/Starting%20an%20alumni%20group.html Nation's Restaurant News "Starting an Alumni Group" Nora Caley interviews April M. Williams about holiday networking http://www.nrnjobplate.com/Holiday%20networking.html

Questions