This document provides tips for optimizing a LinkedIn profile for business purposes. It recommends including relevant experience, achievements, soft skills, and online presence. The document also discusses developing a plan for your LinkedIn network, using features like status updates, skills endorsements, and groups. The goal is to have a well-rounded online profile that reflects who you are and helps you achieve your professional objectives.
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Are you mystified about the new 2017 LinkedIn platform? You are not alone! In fact, the 2017 redesign is the most significant change to the desktop version since its inception, leaving many users panicked as they can’t find the tools they used every day. In this presentation by LinkedIn expert Donna Shannon, learn about the latest changes and traps while discovering tricks to bring back your functionality.
Join my enewsletter and receive 75% off my Udemy.com LinkedIn course: http://eepurl.com/bgVrJr
Born in El Paso, Texas, Selena Flores grew up with a passion for music influenced by her family. She discovered punk rock bands like Green Day at a young age. After working in theme parks, she graduated from Full Sail University with a degree in Entertainment Business, completing internships at record labels. Her goal is to work for a record label and eventually start her own to manage artists.
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social media website that allows users to connect with colleagues, clients, and find other business associates. It has over 120 million professionals from over 150 industries, including executives from every Fortune 500 company. The site is growing rapidly with 2 new members joining every second. LinkedIn can be used for networking, recruiting, managing your online reputation, marketing, and growing your business. The key is to build your professional profile, connect with others, and actively participate in order to reap the most benefits from the platform.
How to build your personal brand on Linkedin - Presentation for Workfest MumsnetSally Keane
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LinkedIn is a social media platform for professional networking and career development. It allows users to build professional profiles, connect with colleagues and recruiters, search and apply for jobs, and stay up to date with industry news and trends. The document provides tips for optimizing a LinkedIn profile to make it more visible to recruiters and hiring managers, including adding a photo, headline, summary, experience, skills, and education. It also recommends connecting with your professional network on LinkedIn, following relevant companies and influencers, and setting up job alerts to actively search and prepare for opportunities. The overall message is that maintaining an up-to-date LinkedIn profile and engaging with your network can help you get noticed by recruiters
This document provides tips for optimizing a LinkedIn profile for business purposes. It recommends including relevant experience, achievements, soft skills, and online presence. The document also discusses developing a plan for your LinkedIn network, using features like status updates, skills endorsements, and groups. The goal is to have a well-rounded online profile that reflects who you are and helps you achieve your professional objectives.
Retirement jobs.com 2013 the career placeEdwin Sapp
This document provides an overview and introduction to RetirementJobs.com, a career website for job seekers over age 50. It was established in 2006 and is the leading career site for mature workers, with over 1 million members and 30,000 job postings searchable by location. It offers free services like job listings and advice, and premium services for a fee including resume critiques and webinars. The site aims to provide opportunities, inspiration, and support for older workers and help them find age-friendly employers through services, resources, and its Age Friendly Employer Certification program.
Are you mystified about the new 2017 LinkedIn platform? You are not alone! In fact, the 2017 redesign is the most significant change to the desktop version since its inception, leaving many users panicked as they can’t find the tools they used every day. In this presentation by LinkedIn expert Donna Shannon, learn about the latest changes and traps while discovering tricks to bring back your functionality.
Join my enewsletter and receive 75% off my Udemy.com LinkedIn course: http://eepurl.com/bgVrJr
Born in El Paso, Texas, Selena Flores grew up with a passion for music influenced by her family. She discovered punk rock bands like Green Day at a young age. After working in theme parks, she graduated from Full Sail University with a degree in Entertainment Business, completing internships at record labels. Her goal is to work for a record label and eventually start her own to manage artists.
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social media website that allows users to connect with colleagues, clients, and find other business associates. It has over 120 million professionals from over 150 industries, including executives from every Fortune 500 company. The site is growing rapidly with 2 new members joining every second. LinkedIn can be used for networking, recruiting, managing your online reputation, marketing, and growing your business. The key is to build your professional profile, connect with others, and actively participate in order to reap the most benefits from the platform.
How to build your personal brand on Linkedin - Presentation for Workfest MumsnetSally Keane
This document provides tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile and professional brand in order to connect with others, stay informed, and get hired. It recommends including a professional photo, attention-grabbing headline, compelling summary, details of work experience with examples of work, skills, volunteer experience, following companies of interest, and engaging with content on LinkedIn.
LinkedIn is a social media platform for professional networking and career development. It allows users to build professional profiles, connect with colleagues and recruiters, search and apply for jobs, and stay up to date with industry news and trends. The document provides tips for optimizing a LinkedIn profile to make it more visible to recruiters and hiring managers, including adding a photo, headline, summary, experience, skills, and education. It also recommends connecting with your professional network on LinkedIn, following relevant companies and influencers, and setting up job alerts to actively search and prepare for opportunities. The overall message is that maintaining an up-to-date LinkedIn profile and engaging with your network can help you get noticed by recruiters
LinkedIn® can be a powerful tool for college graduates if they know how to use it. Problem is, most college students are unaware of how to maximize it's use for establishing their brand, finding jobs and impressing recruiters and hiring managers. After all, 94% of recruiters use LinkedIn to find qualified candidates or check out applicants after they have applied ... 94!
College career centers and faculty hire Kathy Bernard of LinkedWISE to train their students on exactly how to use LinkedIn® to land a job ... and they can learn how in as little as one hour! Schedule a LinkedIn® training session for your students today.
Free LinkedIn Resources for the Peace Corps Community and Beyond...Mona Khalil (She-Her)
As of March 15, 2020 all Peace Corps volunteers were evacuated from their posts around the world. As members of the Peace Corps community, we are #inittogether. We are here to support your transition back to the U.S.
This document provides an overview of LinkedIn and keys to success for job searching. It outlines the basics of LinkedIn as a networking and recruiting tool. It also details the differences between basic and premium LinkedIn accounts and how to fully complete your profile, build connections through invitations and introductions, request recommendations, and leverage additional tools to maximize your presence on LinkedIn for job searching.
LinkedIn Presentation St. Mary Immaculate, Plainfield, ILDenis Curtin
The document provides tips for optimizing a LinkedIn profile to enhance one's job search, including filling out all important profile sections with relevant experience and skills, joining relevant groups and subgroups, and having at least 500 connections including recruiters. It also recommends including one's LinkedIn URL on resumes and job postings to drive recruiters to the profile. The goal is to bring the profile strength to an "All-Star level" and have an error-free, fully-optimized presence on LinkedIn.
Your LinkedIn profile is a primary resource that clearly communicates your assets and manages how others perceive you. Learn to design a strategy to get noticed, find where people are, connect to the right people, and publish your content. LinkedIn continues to evolve and change, ensure that your profile remains relevant and effective.
Your LinkedIn profile can increase your visibility; improve your searchability and connectability. This presentation includes tips to achieve the following results:
• Become an active participant
• Keep track of your network
• Implement the best-kept secret for your profile
• Improve your digital footprint
• Increase the relevancy of your job search
• Research companies
• Find and follow thought leaders
• Find and apply to jobs
You can use LinkedIn as a dynamic social media tool, even if you don't feel like it. LinkedIn can help you build and maintain relationships with people that matter to you.
LinkedIn is a professional network of over 36 million members from around the world representing 170 industries. It allows users to find and connect with qualified professionals to collaborate with to accomplish goals. Users can manage their public profile, find potential clients and partners, and gain insights from private group discussions. Companies can create profiles to promote their brand and recruit top talent through job postings. The document encourages readers to create a profile and become active members of the LinkedIn network.
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This document provides tips for enhancing your job search using LinkedIn. It discusses optimizing your LinkedIn profile, including adding a professional photo and headline, writing a robust summary and experience section, joining relevant groups, and getting recommendations. The goal is to bring your profile to an "All-Star Level" and drive recruiters to view your profile.
This document provides tips on how to leverage LinkedIn for business and career purposes. It discusses optimizing your LinkedIn profile to stand out from others by using a professional photo, compelling headline, complete profile details, and keywords. The document also recommends connecting with contacts from business interactions, joining relevant groups, endorsing others, using advanced search, and spending 20 minutes per day on LinkedIn activities like updating your status, writing recommendations, and prospecting. The overall goal is to establish an online professional presence and network that can generate business opportunities and leads.
This document discusses how to use LinkedIn effectively for lead generation and converting leads to customers. It covers creating a LinkedIn profile and page, identifying target markets, running ads campaigns, designing lead magnets, writing compelling copy for landing pages, converting leads through nurturing, and delighting customers. The key points are that LinkedIn is a business and professional networking platform, an All-Star profile showcases your expertise and builds social proof, and lead magnets can be used to generate and capture qualified leads.
This document summarizes a presentation about networking, informational interviews, and resumes. It provides tips on effective resume writing including focusing on relevant content and key words. It discusses how networking is important for expanding knowledge and learning about opportunities. Informational interviews are presented as a way to gain mentors, learn about company culture, and potentially get job referrals. LinkedIn is highlighted as a tool for professional networking and exploring opportunities.
Webcast presentato da Valentina Napoli di LinkedIn il 19 gennaio 2016.
Come ottimizzare il profilo LinkedIn, sviluppare il proprio network e aggiornarsi professionalmente grazie a LinkedIn.
The document discusses social selling on LinkedIn and provides tips for using LinkedIn effectively. It emphasizes growing and engaging with your LinkedIn network, using relevant content in posts and groups, and establishing your personal brand. The real secret, it says, is using LinkedIn as both a social network and a sales and business tool to make meaningful connections that can lead to opportunities.
This document provides information about LinkedIn and how students can use it to build their professional online presence and network. It discusses that LinkedIn has over 120 million professionals from over 150 industries, with members joining every 2 seconds. The document outlines five rules for an effective student profile and provides tips on how students can connect with others, find jobs and internships, and use LinkedIn as an ongoing career tool.
Do cover letters really matter? Depending on who you ask, the cover letter is either a vital job search tool or an antiquated practice. However, the truth is that a powerful cover letter can not only make a great impression, but also lead to more interviews. In this presentation, learn some of the more creative strategies to gain more attention and prove to the hiring managers that you are the best candidate for the job.
The Importance of Creative Cover LettersDonna Shannon
www.personaltouchcareerservices.com Cover letters are crucial in the job search, no matter what you have heard. A creative cover letter can be the difference between an interview and the rejection pile.
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This document provides tips for customizing your LinkedIn profile. It recommends scrubbing your social media profiles, using LinkedIn to stay up to date in your field and network with professionals. Statistics show LinkedIn has over 294 million users, more than other social platforms. The document reviews profile essentials like photo, headline, summary, experience and education. It provides tips for optimizing your profile, getting recommendations, and using LinkedIn to identify job opportunities and connect with others in your industry.
Free LinkedIn Webinar for Job Seekers by Anne Pryor April 2020ANNE PRYOR, MA
The document provides tips on optimizing one's influence and online presence for job searching, including connecting meaningfully on LinkedIn, navigating LinkedIn strategically through advanced searching and groups, and influencing others impactfully through thoughtful online content and engagement. The key is dedicating 10 minutes a week to maintaining an online profile, connecting with others, and positioning oneself as a resource to build an influential online network.
LinkedIn® can be a powerful tool for college graduates if they know how to use it. Problem is, most college students are unaware of how to maximize it's use for establishing their brand, finding jobs and impressing recruiters and hiring managers. After all, 94% of recruiters use LinkedIn to find qualified candidates or check out applicants after they have applied ... 94!
College career centers and faculty hire Kathy Bernard of LinkedWISE to train their students on exactly how to use LinkedIn® to land a job ... and they can learn how in as little as one hour! Schedule a LinkedIn® training session for your students today.
Free LinkedIn Resources for the Peace Corps Community and Beyond...Mona Khalil (She-Her)
As of March 15, 2020 all Peace Corps volunteers were evacuated from their posts around the world. As members of the Peace Corps community, we are #inittogether. We are here to support your transition back to the U.S.
This document provides an overview of LinkedIn and keys to success for job searching. It outlines the basics of LinkedIn as a networking and recruiting tool. It also details the differences between basic and premium LinkedIn accounts and how to fully complete your profile, build connections through invitations and introductions, request recommendations, and leverage additional tools to maximize your presence on LinkedIn for job searching.
LinkedIn Presentation St. Mary Immaculate, Plainfield, ILDenis Curtin
The document provides tips for optimizing a LinkedIn profile to enhance one's job search, including filling out all important profile sections with relevant experience and skills, joining relevant groups and subgroups, and having at least 500 connections including recruiters. It also recommends including one's LinkedIn URL on resumes and job postings to drive recruiters to the profile. The goal is to bring the profile strength to an "All-Star level" and have an error-free, fully-optimized presence on LinkedIn.
Your LinkedIn profile is a primary resource that clearly communicates your assets and manages how others perceive you. Learn to design a strategy to get noticed, find where people are, connect to the right people, and publish your content. LinkedIn continues to evolve and change, ensure that your profile remains relevant and effective.
Your LinkedIn profile can increase your visibility; improve your searchability and connectability. This presentation includes tips to achieve the following results:
• Become an active participant
• Keep track of your network
• Implement the best-kept secret for your profile
• Improve your digital footprint
• Increase the relevancy of your job search
• Research companies
• Find and follow thought leaders
• Find and apply to jobs
You can use LinkedIn as a dynamic social media tool, even if you don't feel like it. LinkedIn can help you build and maintain relationships with people that matter to you.
LinkedIn is a professional network of over 36 million members from around the world representing 170 industries. It allows users to find and connect with qualified professionals to collaborate with to accomplish goals. Users can manage their public profile, find potential clients and partners, and gain insights from private group discussions. Companies can create profiles to promote their brand and recruit top talent through job postings. The document encourages readers to create a profile and become active members of the LinkedIn network.
Linkedin Presentation - Aurora, IL, Dec. 1, 2015Denis Curtin
This document provides tips for enhancing your job search using LinkedIn. It discusses optimizing your LinkedIn profile, including adding a professional photo and headline, writing a robust summary and experience section, joining relevant groups, and getting recommendations. The goal is to bring your profile to an "All-Star Level" and drive recruiters to view your profile.
This document provides tips on how to leverage LinkedIn for business and career purposes. It discusses optimizing your LinkedIn profile to stand out from others by using a professional photo, compelling headline, complete profile details, and keywords. The document also recommends connecting with contacts from business interactions, joining relevant groups, endorsing others, using advanced search, and spending 20 minutes per day on LinkedIn activities like updating your status, writing recommendations, and prospecting. The overall goal is to establish an online professional presence and network that can generate business opportunities and leads.
This document discusses how to use LinkedIn effectively for lead generation and converting leads to customers. It covers creating a LinkedIn profile and page, identifying target markets, running ads campaigns, designing lead magnets, writing compelling copy for landing pages, converting leads through nurturing, and delighting customers. The key points are that LinkedIn is a business and professional networking platform, an All-Star profile showcases your expertise and builds social proof, and lead magnets can be used to generate and capture qualified leads.
This document summarizes a presentation about networking, informational interviews, and resumes. It provides tips on effective resume writing including focusing on relevant content and key words. It discusses how networking is important for expanding knowledge and learning about opportunities. Informational interviews are presented as a way to gain mentors, learn about company culture, and potentially get job referrals. LinkedIn is highlighted as a tool for professional networking and exploring opportunities.
Webcast presentato da Valentina Napoli di LinkedIn il 19 gennaio 2016.
Come ottimizzare il profilo LinkedIn, sviluppare il proprio network e aggiornarsi professionalmente grazie a LinkedIn.
The document discusses social selling on LinkedIn and provides tips for using LinkedIn effectively. It emphasizes growing and engaging with your LinkedIn network, using relevant content in posts and groups, and establishing your personal brand. The real secret, it says, is using LinkedIn as both a social network and a sales and business tool to make meaningful connections that can lead to opportunities.
This document provides information about LinkedIn and how students can use it to build their professional online presence and network. It discusses that LinkedIn has over 120 million professionals from over 150 industries, with members joining every 2 seconds. The document outlines five rules for an effective student profile and provides tips on how students can connect with others, find jobs and internships, and use LinkedIn as an ongoing career tool.
Do cover letters really matter? Depending on who you ask, the cover letter is either a vital job search tool or an antiquated practice. However, the truth is that a powerful cover letter can not only make a great impression, but also lead to more interviews. In this presentation, learn some of the more creative strategies to gain more attention and prove to the hiring managers that you are the best candidate for the job.
The Importance of Creative Cover LettersDonna Shannon
www.personaltouchcareerservices.com Cover letters are crucial in the job search, no matter what you have heard. A creative cover letter can be the difference between an interview and the rejection pile.
Tips to stay motivate in your job searchDonna Shannon
The document provides tips for staying motivated during a job search. It recommends treating the job search like a job by implementing structure, understanding your work style, staying organized, and setting metrics to track your effectiveness. It outlines four key work styles - goals, schedules, deadlines, and lists - and how to apply each to a job search. It also likens the job search process to a sales process with stages like prospecting, qualifying leads, discovery, proposals, interviews, and job offers. It provides metrics to evaluate your job search efforts and determine what is and isn't working.
How Your Goals Affect Your Job Search StrategyDonna Shannon
This document discusses how job seekers' goals affect their job search strategy. It emphasizes that goals are not just about job title, but also essential elements like salary, location, industry, and corporate culture. The document provides exercises to identify what job seekers are willing and not willing to do in these areas. It also discusses tailoring a job search based on considerations like company size, culture, and additional benefits. The overall message is that with clear parameters focused on one's goals, it is possible to find the right job.
www.personaltouchcareerservices.com Have you ever wondered how to get in touch with the hiring manager? This presentation gives specific suggestions and tactics to reach and influence those important decision-makers
This document provides tips for customizing your LinkedIn profile. It recommends scrubbing your social media profiles, using LinkedIn to stay up to date in your field and network with professionals. Statistics show LinkedIn has over 294 million users, more than other social platforms. The document reviews profile essentials like photo, headline, summary, experience and education. It provides tips for optimizing your profile, getting recommendations, and using LinkedIn to identify job opportunities and connect with others in your industry.
Free LinkedIn Webinar for Job Seekers by Anne Pryor April 2020ANNE PRYOR, MA
The document provides tips on optimizing one's influence and online presence for job searching, including connecting meaningfully on LinkedIn, navigating LinkedIn strategically through advanced searching and groups, and influencing others impactfully through thoughtful online content and engagement. The key is dedicating 10 minutes a week to maintaining an online profile, connecting with others, and positioning oneself as a resource to build an influential online network.
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This document provides an overview and agenda for a LinkedIn training session focused on personal and corporate branding. The trainers - Jomar Reyes, Faizan Syed, and Mia Negru - will discuss elements of LinkedIn profiles, personal branding, common mistakes, networking, groups and pages, and developing a LinkedIn strategy. The session will include a hands-on component and Q&A. Attendees will learn how to optimize their LinkedIn profile, effectively connect and network, and leverage groups and companies to build their personal and professional brands. The trainers recommend attendees focus on developing a strong online presence on LinkedIn within 10 minutes a day to see benefits.
Located in Washington, D.C., our goal is to make you and your profile/resume visible to job recruiters and sales prospects on a 24/7 basis. We understand you cannot be online all the time. We will strive for your online presence to work for you while you’re away.
Career Planning - Social Media Breakfast Minneapolis St PaulPaul DeBettignies
The document provides tips and advice for career planning and job searching using social media and networking. It discusses developing deeper relationships through networking rather than just collecting contacts, and emphasizes taking control of one's online identity and presence. Key recommendations include conducting an online audit of oneself, developing one's LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter profiles with resume information and relevant keywords, and engaging with groups and individuals in one's industry.
The document provides an overview of LinkedIn, including its history and evolution from a professional social networking platform. It discusses how LinkedIn works and makes money, as well as best practices for individuals and companies to utilize LinkedIn, such as completing profiles, growing connections, using advertising, and integrating LinkedIn with other marketing strategies. The presentation also includes tips and references for further exploring LinkedIn's capabilities.
LinkedIn For Good presents a training for workforce development and refugee-serving organizations who want to incorporate LinkedIn 101 into their existing training programs. Use this presentation to train your staff on how to talk about LinkedIn to newcomer populations.
This document provides tips for using LinkedIn to hire the best talent. It recommends establishing a company presence by developing branding assets, acquiring followers, and posting engaging updates. It also suggests analyzing follower engagement and optimizing content. The document outlines how to find and share relevant content, stand out from competitors, and measure recruiting results on LinkedIn. The overall goal is to build an engaged community of followers on LinkedIn to facilitate inbound and outbound recruiting.
Top 4 Marketing Must-Haves for IT and Engineering Staffing Firms in 2014ClearEdge Marketing
What’s in your marketing toolkit for this year? Not sure where to spend your marketing dollars to drive your business forward and realize the best return on your marketing investment? Have no fear – this deck will help! We discuss the four marketing must-haves for IT and engineering staffing firms this year:
1 - Messaging that resonates with your target audience
2 - Creating two-way conversations via social media to enhance the candidate experience
3 - Creating an engaging online user experience regardless of the platform/device used
4 - Creating content that converts.
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1. Track Down the Hiring Manager
Presented by Donna Shannon
720-452-3400
www.PersonalTouchCareerServices.com
(c)2010, 2012 Donna Shannon
2. The Personal Touch Career Services
• Our Mission: To help job seekers of all levels
achieve their employment goals through solid,
practical advice and services
• Resume services, interview coaching, job search strategy and
group classes
• Over 8 years in corporate recruitment & placement
• Donna’s book, “Get a Job Without Going Crazy” is available on
Amazon.com and the Tattered Cover in Denver
(c)2010, 2012 Donna Shannon
3. THE HIRING MANAGER WANTS TO
HIRE YOU
They just don’t know who you are yet
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4. The Personal Factor
• Managers want to hire:
– Someone who is enthusiastic
– Knowledgeable about the industry
– AND…
Who really understands their NEEDS
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5. Key information you better find
• Managers want to hire someone who knows
the company:
– Corporate mission
– Their products and services
– Their competition
– Their challenges
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6. FIND THE PERSON TO GET
PERSONAL
Your first challenge: find that name…
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7. Resources for finding that name:
• Company’s website
• News Sources
• Networking Groups
• Social Media
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8. Resource #1:
the Website
Start with the
job description
Look for:
Report – to’s
Divisions
Locations
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Senior Human Resources
Information Systems Advisor
RTM , is currently hiring for a Senior Human
Resources Information Systems Advisor person
to support the Human Resources department
from their Denver, Colorado global head office.
The holder of this role must have an overall
understanding of the strategic objectives of Rio
Tinto and the business unit, its values and its
operational activities in order to understand labor
and skills requirements and business / individual
standards; Human Resources Systems are an
effective tool for managing sensitive employee
data; are cost effective and value adding; drive a
high performance culture and enable the
organization to attract and retain high caliber
employees. The Sr HRIS Advisor reports directly to
the Vice President of Human Resources.
The successful candidate will be able to:
9. More on the website:
• Other pages to mine:
– Management team
– About us
– Blog posts
– News or Media Room
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10. Resource #2: News and Media
• Focus on local sources:
– The Denver Business Journal
• Data base of many local and national companies
• www.denver.bizjournals.com
– Colorado Business Magazine
• http://www.cobizmag.com/
– The Denver Post
• Mainstream News
• www.denverpost.com
– Westword
• In-depth cultural impact
• www.westword.com
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11. Trigger Events
• Any excuse to reach out to a manager,
whether there is a job opening or not
– Recent company awards
– Winning major contract
– Promotions
– Office moves
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13. More information available…
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Colorado Business Magazine writes an article for EACH
winner – which you can read for free
14. Resource #3: Networking Groups
• Obvious target:
– a direct connection to the hiring manager (aka the
Holy Grail)
• More likely:
• Current or past employee of the target company
• Someone who knows someone at the target
company
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15. What to ask former and current
employees:
• Names of managers
• Hiring procedures
• Company culture
• Company challenges
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16. Other Cool Websites
• Glassdoor.com
• User reviews of companies and their interviews
• Zoominfo.com
• Recruiters’ tool for company research
• Manta.com
• Free data-rich company information
• Professional Associations
• Look for the volunteer Board
• Chambers of Commerce
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17. Missed the target manager?
• ALL senior managers are your target
• Send resumes to ALL possible decision-
makers
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18. SO YOU GOT THE NAME…
Now what?
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19. DON’T Contact yet…
• Don’t ask for an introduction
• Don’t send an Inmail through LinkedIn.com
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20. Get to know your target as a person…
• Interpret their LinkedIn profile
• Look for LinkedIn involvement
• Check out their Twitter feed
• Google for the dirt
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27. NAILING THE CONTACT INFO
How you reach them is just as important as what you say
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28. Reach out and touch someone…
• Direct Email
• Snail Mail and Variations
• LinkedIn connections
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29. Determining the email address
• Scrutinize website for patterns
• Check ZoomInfo.com
• Call the front desk
– Magic phrase:
“I’m sending an email to So-n-So, but it looks like I
may have it wrong. Is it
joe.schmoe@abccompany.com?”
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30. Proven Personal Touch Method
• Send a hard copy directly to the manager
– Targeted cover letters can win the assistant
– Variations for impact:
• Priority Mail ($4.90 for flat rate envelope)
• Express Mail or Fed Ex (average $14.95 for USPS)
• Courier Service (varies - $20 to $30)
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31. Important note:
• Do NOT use resume quality envelopes, but
DO use resume quality paper
• Paper Rules:
– Use high quality resume paper
– Light color
– High quality printing
Your worth WILL be judged by the presentation
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32. Showing up in person
• Can be a risk:
– Receptionists are guard dogs
– Be sure to dress appropriately
– Give resume in sealed package marked
“Confidential”
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33. WHAT TO PUT IN YOUR COVER
LETTER
Grab ‘em and hold ‘em
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34. Personal Cover Letters
• Must always include:
– Understanding of the company
– Passion for the job
– How you can help by:
• Solving problems
• Making money
• Saving money
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35. Understanding of the
industry sample
• Start with current news
• Write about your
understanding of the
industry
• Tie in your personal
experience
• Ask for the job your want
• Conclude with your
contact information
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37. What the hiring manager does…
• He will call HR, not you
– Resume resurrection
– Ensures you will get a diligent interview
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38. Essence of the Personal Touch
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1. Find the name
2. Figure out who they are
3. Get your resume in their hands