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1. Tools and Strategies for
Your New Adventures
Kathleen Smith
ClearedJobs.Net

2. What are we doing
today?
Finer points of your
Job Search Strategy
Online tools and
strategies research,
refine and connect for
your next adventure
New Technically
Connected You

3. Don’t assume that this will be an
easy process because you are a
senior executive, have a higher level
clearance, and great contacts.
80% of transitioning professionals change jobs in
the first year………You might find a job quickly, but
is it the right match?

5. Foundation of Your Job Search Strategy
Point #1: Companies and
their recruiters use different
tools and methods for finding
candidates.
Point #2: There is no
definitive map to find “the”
recruiter hiring for a
particular position.
Point #3: Your comfort level
for each of the social
networking tools.

8. Understanding that
this is not just your
job search strategy…
Up until now you
have had a career
map…
Using these tools to
formulate your
career development
strategy.

11. Basic Tools
Content: Summary
information, keywords
and different lengths of
biographies
Images: Professional
images that are small
enough in pixel size to
be uploaded to profiles.
Awareness: Security
and privacy settings
understanding.

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14. Building profiles – be it on job boards or social media profiles – are
an important way to present short snippets of who you are and your
qualifications.

15. Filling out a profile that includes where you desire to work along with
your resumes and cover letters.

16. Your Account Dashboard which helps you keep your job
search organized.
You can have more than
one resume and cover
letter.
You can create job
agents, and see which
jobs you have applied to.

17. The Browse tab quickly
refines your search results.
The default search results
are by Relevance to your
criteria. Click Date to view
results in date order.

18. When you log in to your job seeker account, access
Quick Job Search and Advanced Job Search from My
Dashboard.

19. Select the Search tab to edit
your search criteria.
Click Clear to erase all your
current search criteria.

20. When you refine your searches and like the results you’re
receiving, create a Saved Search or a Job Agent. Job Agents are
Saved Searches that email you when new jobs that match your
search criteria are posted to ClearedJobs.Net. You can receive Job
Agent notifications daily, weekly or monthly.

22. You never know who might
be able to help your job
search.

24. Customize Your Title
with Your Keywords
You can make your
photo visible to Just
Your Connections,
Your Network or
Everyone
Grab Your Personal
LinkedIn URL
Summary in three
paragraphs or less

25. Skills & Expertise is a
form of recommendation.
Skills & Expertise are
grabbed from your
profile to start
You can add up to 25
skills and edit out the
ones you don’t want
Recruiters have already
begun searching based
on profiles with the
highest number of
endorsements for
specific skills

26. Always
personalize
your invitations
to connect

27. You Don’t Have to
Accept All Invitations to
Connect
And You Can Report
Connections that Should
Not Be Connecting with
You.

28. Follow for
Company
See who you
are connected
with
Check out
their Careers
page

29. Review the LinkedIn profile of
an interviewer(s) before you
meet them

30. You can join up to 50
Groups, and if they
don’t work for you,
you can leave the
group and join others.

31. LinkedIn Publisher – an opportunity to start building your “Subject Matter
Expert” name.

34. Companies may share job postings,
events, company news and a way to
interact with hiring managers.

36. Find Your Facebook
Account Setting
These will be
located under your
“name” on your
account.

37. Privacy Settings
Familiarize yourself with
the Privacy settings
Use the Help Section,
Safety Center and the
Top Questions
There is also a Family
Help Center
Again, it is “your”
responsibility to keep up
to date on the Privacy
and Security settings

38. Create “Lists” of who you share your
information with: Friends, Families versus
Public.

39. Facebook Graph lets you search on a wide range
of criteria based on a particular topic.

40. You can refine your Searches.

41. • Include work or job related info on your profile
• Upload your public resume to your notes
• Let your friends know you’re looking for a job
• Set up lists of people you share info with
friends/others
Active Facebook User?
Not On Facebook?
• Create a skeletal profile
• Like/follow companies, organizations and
government agencies you are targeting

42. Company Info,
news and jobs

43. News no longer breaks,
it tweets.
140 Character news and information feed /
email alternative

44. Why
• Follow recruiters & target companies
• Job postings are tweeted
A Tweet

45. Your Twitter
Account
Name, location
and most
importantly your
Bio
Learning to write
about yourself
“briefly”

46. Twitter Account
Settings for Privacy
You can elect to have
others follow you or
approve them before
they can follow you.
You can set your
location and how your
information is shared
with others.

47. Locating like minded accounts in the
Following and Followers of accounts you are
following

48. 1. Follow/connect with
companies you want to work
for and their recruiters
2. Use relevant keywords in
your profile
2 Things to Do

49. “Manually”

50. Building your expertise and knowledge by searching for
and answering questions – especially if you are looking to
be on a nonprofit board or become a consultant.

51. Setting up your profile and connecting with your
other networks.

52. Setting up your account.

53. Creating a profile, developing an expertise and have the
community vote on your answers.

54. Set up your topics and you will be asked to answer
questions that the community can review, Upvote or
Downvote.

57. How do you wrap it all up? Your one page for the world.

59. Easy format to complete. Great way to house all of your social
media in one place.

60. Edit page allows you to customize your page and contact information.

61. Find contacts by searching or who has viewed your profile.
Send a compliment as a way of interacting.

62. Create Collections for your interest and then search for profiles
to add to them.

64. You can upload your
presentations and share
them in other social
media.
You can also have this
on your LinkedIn profile.
If you find other content
of interest, you can share
this through your social
media networks.

65. Your Biggest Online University

67. Managing all of your accounts in one place for
reviewing information and interacting with
followers.

68. Both applications allow you to set up LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ in
one place. You can also set up search terms to keep up on key topics.

69. It’s all about expanding your network and connecting with like
minded individuals.

70. And once you connect with them face to face, following up with
them in social media.

71. social collaborative tools are now an
important part of the career landscape

72. The New
“Technically
Connected You”

73. How this information was
compiled….
Through my network of 500+
LinkedIn connections I asked:
Do you equip your staff with cell
phones and/or laptops?
If so, which makes and models?
What are your expectations
when you provide this
equipment?
Namely do you expect staff to
have the equipment on all the
time or just business hours?
Do you provide support and
training to your new staff on
how to use this technology?
Is there on-going technical
support or does staff have to
just "wing it'?

74. Expectations of your
connectivity……
If there is an “urgent” project or
task in process, you will be
expected to answer immediately no
matter the time of day or day of the
week.
Most companies expect some
overtime but not complete 24/7.
Many said emails must be
answered within 24 hours.
If you are working at a client site,
you will not have a cell phone and
your laptop but you will have one
off site for processing timesheets
and communicating with your
managers.
There will be little to no training
using this equipment as there is an
expectation that you know how to
use it.

75. Company Issued Laptops
Most companies issue a Dell
laptop but there will not be
training or support. BYOD
(Bring Your Own Device) is
becoming more popular. As
it tablets.
Most will have an Access
Security Key or “Fob”.
You will have to check with
your IT department to see
when they do updates.

76. Basic Programs
The Microsoft Office Suite of
programs Outlook, Word, Excel and
PowerPoint.
You will want to learn how to use
each one of these programs to be
able to view the files, save them to
the proper areas of your computer
and create documents.
For Outlook, being able to learn how
to Save or Archive emails, Create a
Signature block, or Create Folders.
Remember emails carry viruses:
Don’t open an .exe or .zip file, or
something that “looks” official – it’s
not
Word, Excel or PowerPoint –
creating the documents but also
remembering where to Save them.

77. Cell Phones
You will either be given a cell phone
but more than likely expected to use
your own.
Blackberry, iPhones and Droids are
all used.
You will need to have a phone for
voicemail, to connect with your email
and to text.
Phones are now set to be
Geolocators, so this function will be
turned on for your phone. You will
need to turn it off, but there will still
be the emergency locator.
Battery lives vary per phone
dependent on how much graphic or
internet usage you use.
Charge your battery every night.

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