Gail Houston shares her insights with applicants on how to use LinkedIn to attract recruiters to your profile and find your next great job.

1. Using LinkedIn to Attract Recruiters
Gail Houston - ghouston – Dec 2015

2. Recruiters are looking for you
but how do you stand out and get noticed?

3. See How You Rank In Your Industry
Write Down Your Number
Make Top 10 Your Goal

4. 4
Follow Company Pages
Your Interested In

5. Companies Will Post Open Positions

6. Update Your LinkedIn Profile
7x’s more likely to be viewed with a photo

7. Recommendations for your LinkedIn Headline
Use key skill word in your job title (headline)

8. Summary Section –
Use Key Words – Visible Email
Myemail@gmail.com
Senior Finance and Operations Leader with over 20 years of business experience in
financial planning, business analysis, resource allocation, operational execution
and process excellence principles. Leverage extensive background in strategic
planning, forecasting, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Strong team builder
and facilitator, consistently foster collaborative, innovative atmosphere that
encourages talented professionals and teams to reach maximum potential. Ability
to solve problems, synthesize complex information and communicate direction in
concise, easily understood formats. Received Intuit’s Finance Recognition of
Excellence Award.
Specialties: Financial planning and analysis (FP&A), strategic planning and
operational execution, business process and workflow improvements

9. Add Current Employer and Past Employers

10. Contact Info
Add job search
email - Make
primary
Always have two
Add Twitter Handle/s
Add 3 Websites
Select Other
Name Website
Add URL
Select Your Public Profile URL
And make your profile public

11. Is Your Public Profile Really Public?
get found on Google by checking all boxes
Check all boxes

12. Public Profile URL
for your signature line | resume
Green check means you
can use your name,
red x means you need
to keep trying

13. Privacy and Settings
Review Each Area

14. 14
Two or more Emails – Professional Email

15. Add Media to Summary and Employer/s
15
Edit | Add Media | Rearrange

16. Join appropriate groups & introduce yourself
16
Click
reorder
groups
• Click “groups”
• Click “your groups”
• Click “groups directory”
• Enter keywords for groups you are
looking for (i.e. “Intuit Careers”)
• Click “join”
• Select how often you want to
receive email updates
• After you have joined 100 groups
Click “reorder”
• Select “Intuit Careers” as #1
• Recent Changes: You can now join
100 groups; no more sub groups;
no more “Open Groups”; can no
longer post online articles. jobs
still show up but only stay up now
14 days in groups now
Jobs Tab – all paid LI jobs, Career Discussion – more postings