This document discusses how networking and using LinkedIn can help one market themselves as a candidate of choice in a competitive job market. It provides tips on how to build and leverage connections through professional associations, alumni groups, recommendations, and content sharing on LinkedIn and SlideShare. The key is to build relationships, join groups, be discoverable online, and use social media to promote one's skills and what they are currently working on.

1. © 2009 Lynn Hazan and Associates. All Rights Reserved Networking & LinkedIn: Creating Partnerships in your Job Search AMA MeetUp - March 2009

2. “ One lesson stands out: Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, whether you make it onto the Fortune 500, and whether you stay there, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you” Jim Collins Fortune , May 5, 2008

3. How to get a job When there are more candidates than openings? Copyright 2009 by Lynn Hazan & Associates - www.lhazan.com

4. YOU get very creative And apply your smarts to market yourself as a Candidate of Choice

12. Spheres of Influence -- Individual Contacts YOU Arts/Culture Listservs Professional Associations Social Clubs Places of Worship Universities Attended Sports and Clubs Community Organizations Fill in your own group Fill in your own group

15. Refresh your content regularly

17. Add your own firm

19. Recommendations Get recommended Recommend others

20. Alumni groups Professional associations Create your own group Join groups

21. A candidate promoting herself through LinkedIn groups

22. Results!

23. What I Am Working On Promote yourself to your network

24. What are you working on? Keep up with your network

25. Create Content on SlideShare

26. After posting a presentation, LH&A was featured on SlideShare’s Career frontpage: An endorsement from SlideShare

27. An underutilized resource Promote yourself with your resume and portfolio Add the SlideShare app to your LinkedIn page and get more usage from your content

28. Make it a Multimedia Presentation

29. How am I doing? Psst… Be a LinkedIn spy

30. Check Out Who’s Viewed Your Profile Find this on right side of your LinkedIn home page It’s only visible to you!

31. Click “See more” for your own mini survey

32. Networking & Social Media = Power to the People!

33. The Empowered Job Seeker 1 to 1 consultation to help candidates re-position themselves for a changing job market. For details, contact lynn@lhazan.com Includes work on resume, interviews, networking, LinkedIn, job searching and negotiating with Lynn Hazan, a 25-year veteran of the recruiting business.

34. Here’s to a year for connections! May the force be with you! Lynn Hazan [email_address] www.lhazan.com 312.863.5401

35. Thanks to: Michael Walters Advertising for hosting James Heckman, AMA MeetUp Chair