This document summarizes networking events and strategies for finding a job. It outlines two upcoming networking events in January and February 2011 and discusses Richard Bolles' book on job hunting strategies. Specifically, it notes that personal networks are the most effective method for finding a job, with 80% of positions being filled through networking contacts and acquaintances. The document stresses developing a wide network by staying in touch with contacts and finding mentors.
This document provides tips for using LinkedIn for job searches and career success. It discusses creating a complete LinkedIn profile that highlights skills, experiences and accomplishments in order to be found by recruiters conducting searches. The document also explains how to set up custom job searches and filter results. Maintaining an active online presence and branding on LinkedIn can help users connect with opportunities.
This document provides a framework for successfully recruiting passive candidates based on interviews with LinkedIn Recruiting Solutions customers with high InMail response rates. It outlines 10 tips for building meaningful connections with passive candidates, including developing your personal brand online and offline, immersing yourself in a candidate's industry, keeping relationships long-term rather than just being transactional, and always maintaining respect and patience.
Roy Rodenstein shares his experiences as an entrepreneur and lessons learned from founding Going.com and BootstrappedLocal Marketing. Some key points include:
- He started by proving the concept in one city (Boston) before scaling to other cities like New York and San Francisco.
- Early marketing efforts focused on friends/family and local events to build awareness within specific geographies.
- Funding was used to launch larger local marketing events and hire local staff to further grow in existing cities and expand to new ones.
- Advice is given around early team building, when to hire full-time vs part-time/contractors, and fundraising strategies for different cities.
Building eminence through social media sept 2011lpnicholas
This document provides tips for building expertise and recognition, known as "eminence", through social media. It recommends:
1) Writing a concise bio that clearly communicates your skills, experience and goals.
2) Optimizing your LinkedIn profile with a professional photo, descriptive headline, well-written summary and connections to relevant groups.
3) Regularly engaging with others in your field by contributing online through comments, posts, articles and discussions.
4) Periodically searching your name online to gauge your visibility and reputation in order to refine your digital presence.
How To Find A Job Using Linked In Final General DynamicsQueen Schmooze
The document discusses how to effectively use LinkedIn for job searching. It describes LinkedIn's features for networking, branding oneself, connecting with contacts, searching for people and companies, participating in groups and discussions, answering questions, getting recommendations, becoming a subject matter expert through status updates and answers, and using additional applications like blogs. The document provides tips for using these tools to increase visibility, build skills, and help find new job opportunities through one's extended network on LinkedIn.
The document discusses how to effectively use LinkedIn for job searching. It describes LinkedIn as the largest professional networking site that allows users to connect with people, display their work history and skills, and find jobs. It provides tips for using LinkedIn such as building an effective profile, connecting with contacts, joining groups, providing recommendations, and engaging as a subject matter expert. The goal is to increase visibility and network connections to help find new job opportunities.
This document summarizes networking events and strategies for finding a job. It outlines two upcoming networking events in January and February 2011 and discusses Richard Bolles' book on job hunting strategies. Specifically, it notes that personal networks are the most effective method for finding a job, with 80% of positions being filled through networking contacts and acquaintances. The document stresses developing a wide network by staying in touch with contacts and finding mentors.
This document provides tips for using LinkedIn for job searches and career success. It discusses creating a complete LinkedIn profile that highlights skills, experiences and accomplishments in order to be found by recruiters conducting searches. The document also explains how to set up custom job searches and filter results. Maintaining an active online presence and branding on LinkedIn can help users connect with opportunities.
This document provides a framework for successfully recruiting passive candidates based on interviews with LinkedIn Recruiting Solutions customers with high InMail response rates. It outlines 10 tips for building meaningful connections with passive candidates, including developing your personal brand online and offline, immersing yourself in a candidate's industry, keeping relationships long-term rather than just being transactional, and always maintaining respect and patience.
Roy Rodenstein shares his experiences as an entrepreneur and lessons learned from founding Going.com and BootstrappedLocal Marketing. Some key points include:
- He started by proving the concept in one city (Boston) before scaling to other cities like New York and San Francisco.
- Early marketing efforts focused on friends/family and local events to build awareness within specific geographies.
- Funding was used to launch larger local marketing events and hire local staff to further grow in existing cities and expand to new ones.
- Advice is given around early team building, when to hire full-time vs part-time/contractors, and fundraising strategies for different cities.
Building eminence through social media sept 2011lpnicholas
This document provides tips for building expertise and recognition, known as "eminence", through social media. It recommends:
1) Writing a concise bio that clearly communicates your skills, experience and goals.
2) Optimizing your LinkedIn profile with a professional photo, descriptive headline, well-written summary and connections to relevant groups.
3) Regularly engaging with others in your field by contributing online through comments, posts, articles and discussions.
4) Periodically searching your name online to gauge your visibility and reputation in order to refine your digital presence.
How To Find A Job Using Linked In Final General DynamicsQueen Schmooze
The document discusses how to effectively use LinkedIn for job searching. It describes LinkedIn's features for networking, branding oneself, connecting with contacts, searching for people and companies, participating in groups and discussions, answering questions, getting recommendations, becoming a subject matter expert through status updates and answers, and using additional applications like blogs. The document provides tips for using these tools to increase visibility, build skills, and help find new job opportunities through one's extended network on LinkedIn.
The document discusses how to effectively use LinkedIn for job searching. It describes LinkedIn as the largest professional networking site that allows users to connect with people, display their work history and skills, and find jobs. It provides tips for using LinkedIn such as building an effective profile, connecting with contacts, joining groups, providing recommendations, and engaging as a subject matter expert. The goal is to increase visibility and network connections to help find new job opportunities.
This document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile that promotes your personal brand and connects you to others in a professional network. The tips include writing engaging content in short blocks rather than copying your resume; using an authentic professional voice; including an eye-catching personal tagline; highlighting your skills, experience, and distinguishing attributes; asking and answering questions to build expertise; and improving your profile and connections to reflect the quality of your professional brand. The overall goal is to engage others and start useful conversations that are beneficial for both parties.
How HR Can Use Social Media for Recruitment and Candidate EngagementAlbert Qian
The proliferation of social media has enabled HR to reach out to more candidates than ever for their jobs. In this presentation, learn a few methods to be effective in extending your reach and finding the hire that fits best. Case study shares the success of Albert's List, a Facebook jobs community.
Listen to the recording here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1249742669402153986
Sponsored by HRO
LinkedIn is a social network for professional connections. An effective LinkedIn profile promotes a user's professional brand and expertise. The document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile, including writing in an authentic voice, using a personal tagline and elevator pitch, highlighting skills and experience, adding recommendations and connections, and customizing the public profile URL.
The document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile:
1) Do not just copy your resume but describe your experience and abilities as you would to someone you just met.
2) Use your authentic professional voice and write in an engaging way using specific adjectives and verbs.
3) Craft an eye-catching personal tagline under your name to brand yourself.
4) Include a concise elevator pitch in your Summary section to engage readers.
5) Highlight your skills in the Specialties section to help people find and remember you.
This document provides guidance on creating an effective LinkedIn profile tailored to one's target audience and industry niche. It discusses the key components of a LinkedIn profile, including photo, headline, recommendations, experience, and summary. It emphasizes writing in the first person, establishing credentials, and showing one's passion and expertise to attract connections and opportunities within one's niche. The document also offers best practices like having a professional photo and proofreading for errors.
This document discusses using LinkedIn as a business development tool to generate leads, increase customers, engage professionals, and build credibility. It emphasizes focusing energy on "Power Connectors" - those within six degrees of separation who can make quality introductions and spread connections. Both strong and weak ties on LinkedIn should be leveraged by staying connected, making introductions, and being altruistic to find opportunities in all connections. The document also provides tips on optimizing a personal profile, such as crafting a professional headline and positioning statement and managing privacy controls.
March17th Bounce Back into Business Services - Part IISheila Burkett
The document provides tips and guidance for job seekers to bounce back into business services careers. It outlines an agenda for a workshop including resume review exercises, networking strategies, using social media, and interview preparation. Attendees are encouraged to leverage their network by connecting with others, attending industry events, maintaining an active online presence, and securing informational interviews to learn about potential opportunities. The document stresses developing an elevator pitch, researching target companies, and practicing for challenging interview questions to help ace interviews and land a new role.
This document provides tips for building an effective LinkedIn profile in 3 sentences or less:
Optimize your profile with a photo, personalized tagline, and concise elevator pitch to capture attention. Highlight relevant skills, qualifications, and keywords that recruiters search for. Make your profile public and build your professional network by connecting with colleagues, alumni, and joining relevant industry groups.
The document provides tips for job seekers on preparing resumes and using LinkedIn effectively for a job search. It advises that recruiters look for a candidate's professional brand, accomplishments, skills, and career path in the resume. The purpose of a resume is to get an interview, so it should be a marketing tool that sells the candidate's strengths through concrete examples rather than vague descriptions. It also offers dos and don'ts for resumes, LinkedIn profiles, the application process, and networking etiquette.
Most business owners and service professionals don’t consider themselves as a brand AND they really don’t know how to network strategically. This presentation covers how to build your PB through networking. The key takeaways are, Brand called You, Get Up, Get Out and Get Networking, how to use social Media to grow your brand. Plus, networking strategies to implement right away.
10 tips to building a strong linked in profileMark Long
1. This document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile that promotes your personal brand and connects you to others in a professional network.
2. The tips include writing engaging content in short blocks rather than just copying your resume, using an authentic professional voice, crafting a memorable personal tagline, including an elevator pitch in your summary, highlighting relevant skills, explaining your experience clearly, and distinguishing yourself through additional information and connections.
3. Getting recommendations from colleagues, actively engaging on LinkedIn by answering questions and recommending others, and customizing your public profile URL can help improve your professional brand and visibility on the platform.
10 Tips to Building a Strong Linkedin profileSabina Sobinina
1. This document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile that promotes your personal brand and connects you to others in a professional network.
2. The tips include writing engaging content in short blocks rather than just copying your resume, using an authentic professional voice, crafting an eye-catching personal tagline, including a compelling summary and details about skills and experience, and distinguishing yourself through additional information and connections.
3. By following these tips to create a well-rounded profile that is easy to find through search and recommendations, you can effectively establish yourself as a credible expert and build valuable professional connections.
This document provides information and resources to help job seekers over 50 with their job search. It discusses age discrimination in employment law, recognizing signs of age discrimination, websites for mature job seekers, networking tips, and strategies for overcoming objections about age. The document recommends focusing on relevant experience, staying open to learning, building a strong LinkedIn profile, and networking persistently. It also provides examples of interview questions and tips for answering them, as well as local job search workshops and services.
The document provides 15 tips for small businesses to improve their networking on LinkedIn. It recommends optimizing your profile with a photo, headline, and summary to make yourself credible. It also suggests using your existing network to find and connect with new contacts on LinkedIn through searching, groups, and introductions. The tips emphasize engaging with your connections by participating in groups, sending messages, and following up on in-person meetings to build your professional network.
Your Resume Is Not Your LinkedIn ProfileAmy L. Adler
The document discusses the differences between a resume and a LinkedIn profile. While a resume is designed to get you an interview and showcases your career history and qualifications for a specific role, a LinkedIn profile has a different purpose and format. A LinkedIn profile allows for more creativity and networking opportunities, as it aims to demonstrate your online presence and make connections through an extended professional brand. The key differences are the target audiences, acceptable layouts, and potential for innovation on each platform.
Personal linked in profile - how to build a strong presenceJoseph Gonzalez
This document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile that promotes your personal brand and connects you to others in a professional network. The tips include writing in an authentic voice rather than copying your resume, using a personal tagline and elevator pitch, highlighting skills, explaining experience succinctly, distinguishing yourself from others, engaging with questions and recommendations, and optimizing your connections and profile visibility. The overall goal is to present an accurate, compelling representation of your professional self online in order to spark useful conversations and opportunities.
This document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile that promotes your personal brand and connects you to others in a professional network. The tips include writing in an authentic voice rather than copying your resume, using a personal tagline and elevator pitch, highlighting skills, explaining experience succinctly, distinguishing yourself, engaging with others through questions and recommendations, and optimizing your profile's visibility through connections and a customized public URL. The overall goal is to present an accurate, compelling representation of your professional self that starts useful conversations and builds your credibility and network on LinkedIn.
10 Tips To Building A Strong Linked In ProfileCiara Fogarty
1. The document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile, including writing in an authentic voice, using a personal tagline and elevator pitch, highlighting skills, explaining experience, distinguishing yourself, asking and answering questions, getting recommendations, and building quality connections.
2. It advises treating your profile like branding by telling a credible story that promotes your skills and knowledge in a natural voice.
3. The tips encourage engaging readers in the first few seconds and helping people easily find and remember you through searchable sections and a customized public profile URL.
This document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile that promotes your personal brand and connects you to others in a professional network. The tips include writing in an authentic voice rather than copying your resume, using a personal tagline and elevator pitch, highlighting skills, explaining experience succinctly, distinguishing yourself, engaging with others through questions and recommendations, and optimizing your profile's visibility through connections and a customized public URL. The overall goal is to present an accurate, compelling representation of your professional self that starts useful conversations.
Effective Tips on LinkedIn - Building a strong profileMitesh Sanghvi
Effective Tips on LinkedIn is a series of presentations developed by Mitesh Sanghvi for beginners to LinkedIn to help them get most out of it. Building a strong profile is the first thing on LinkedIn. Best wishes!
This document provides tips and advice for using social media and traditional methods to get hired. It recommends completing your LinkedIn profile, connecting with recruiters and industry professionals, sharing useful content, and customizing your resume and cover letter for each job application. The key steps are starting an active social media presence now, focusing your online profiles and resume on your qualifications and achievements, and putting effort into networking and customizing materials for each employer.
This document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile that promotes your personal brand and connects you to others in a professional network. The tips include writing engaging content in short blocks rather than copying your resume; using an authentic professional voice; including an eye-catching personal tagline; highlighting your skills, experience, and distinguishing attributes; asking and answering questions to build expertise; and improving your profile and connections to reflect the quality of your professional brand. The overall goal is to engage others and start useful conversations that are beneficial for both parties.
How HR Can Use Social Media for Recruitment and Candidate EngagementAlbert Qian
The proliferation of social media has enabled HR to reach out to more candidates than ever for their jobs. In this presentation, learn a few methods to be effective in extending your reach and finding the hire that fits best. Case study shares the success of Albert's List, a Facebook jobs community.
Listen to the recording here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1249742669402153986
Sponsored by HRO
LinkedIn is a social network for professional connections. An effective LinkedIn profile promotes a user's professional brand and expertise. The document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile, including writing in an authentic voice, using a personal tagline and elevator pitch, highlighting skills and experience, adding recommendations and connections, and customizing the public profile URL.
The document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile:
1) Do not just copy your resume but describe your experience and abilities as you would to someone you just met.
2) Use your authentic professional voice and write in an engaging way using specific adjectives and verbs.
3) Craft an eye-catching personal tagline under your name to brand yourself.
4) Include a concise elevator pitch in your Summary section to engage readers.
5) Highlight your skills in the Specialties section to help people find and remember you.
This document provides guidance on creating an effective LinkedIn profile tailored to one's target audience and industry niche. It discusses the key components of a LinkedIn profile, including photo, headline, recommendations, experience, and summary. It emphasizes writing in the first person, establishing credentials, and showing one's passion and expertise to attract connections and opportunities within one's niche. The document also offers best practices like having a professional photo and proofreading for errors.
This document discusses using LinkedIn as a business development tool to generate leads, increase customers, engage professionals, and build credibility. It emphasizes focusing energy on "Power Connectors" - those within six degrees of separation who can make quality introductions and spread connections. Both strong and weak ties on LinkedIn should be leveraged by staying connected, making introductions, and being altruistic to find opportunities in all connections. The document also provides tips on optimizing a personal profile, such as crafting a professional headline and positioning statement and managing privacy controls.
March17th Bounce Back into Business Services - Part IISheila Burkett
The document provides tips and guidance for job seekers to bounce back into business services careers. It outlines an agenda for a workshop including resume review exercises, networking strategies, using social media, and interview preparation. Attendees are encouraged to leverage their network by connecting with others, attending industry events, maintaining an active online presence, and securing informational interviews to learn about potential opportunities. The document stresses developing an elevator pitch, researching target companies, and practicing for challenging interview questions to help ace interviews and land a new role.
This document provides tips for building an effective LinkedIn profile in 3 sentences or less:
Optimize your profile with a photo, personalized tagline, and concise elevator pitch to capture attention. Highlight relevant skills, qualifications, and keywords that recruiters search for. Make your profile public and build your professional network by connecting with colleagues, alumni, and joining relevant industry groups.
The document provides tips for job seekers on preparing resumes and using LinkedIn effectively for a job search. It advises that recruiters look for a candidate's professional brand, accomplishments, skills, and career path in the resume. The purpose of a resume is to get an interview, so it should be a marketing tool that sells the candidate's strengths through concrete examples rather than vague descriptions. It also offers dos and don'ts for resumes, LinkedIn profiles, the application process, and networking etiquette.
Most business owners and service professionals don’t consider themselves as a brand AND they really don’t know how to network strategically. This presentation covers how to build your PB through networking. The key takeaways are, Brand called You, Get Up, Get Out and Get Networking, how to use social Media to grow your brand. Plus, networking strategies to implement right away.
10 tips to building a strong linked in profileMark Long
1. This document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile that promotes your personal brand and connects you to others in a professional network.
2. The tips include writing engaging content in short blocks rather than just copying your resume, using an authentic professional voice, crafting a memorable personal tagline, including an elevator pitch in your summary, highlighting relevant skills, explaining your experience clearly, and distinguishing yourself through additional information and connections.
3. Getting recommendations from colleagues, actively engaging on LinkedIn by answering questions and recommending others, and customizing your public profile URL can help improve your professional brand and visibility on the platform.
10 Tips to Building a Strong Linkedin profileSabina Sobinina
1. This document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile that promotes your personal brand and connects you to others in a professional network.
2. The tips include writing engaging content in short blocks rather than just copying your resume, using an authentic professional voice, crafting an eye-catching personal tagline, including a compelling summary and details about skills and experience, and distinguishing yourself through additional information and connections.
3. By following these tips to create a well-rounded profile that is easy to find through search and recommendations, you can effectively establish yourself as a credible expert and build valuable professional connections.
This document provides information and resources to help job seekers over 50 with their job search. It discusses age discrimination in employment law, recognizing signs of age discrimination, websites for mature job seekers, networking tips, and strategies for overcoming objections about age. The document recommends focusing on relevant experience, staying open to learning, building a strong LinkedIn profile, and networking persistently. It also provides examples of interview questions and tips for answering them, as well as local job search workshops and services.
The document provides 15 tips for small businesses to improve their networking on LinkedIn. It recommends optimizing your profile with a photo, headline, and summary to make yourself credible. It also suggests using your existing network to find and connect with new contacts on LinkedIn through searching, groups, and introductions. The tips emphasize engaging with your connections by participating in groups, sending messages, and following up on in-person meetings to build your professional network.
Your Resume Is Not Your LinkedIn ProfileAmy L. Adler
The document discusses the differences between a resume and a LinkedIn profile. While a resume is designed to get you an interview and showcases your career history and qualifications for a specific role, a LinkedIn profile has a different purpose and format. A LinkedIn profile allows for more creativity and networking opportunities, as it aims to demonstrate your online presence and make connections through an extended professional brand. The key differences are the target audiences, acceptable layouts, and potential for innovation on each platform.
Personal linked in profile - how to build a strong presenceJoseph Gonzalez
This document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile that promotes your personal brand and connects you to others in a professional network. The tips include writing in an authentic voice rather than copying your resume, using a personal tagline and elevator pitch, highlighting skills, explaining experience succinctly, distinguishing yourself from others, engaging with questions and recommendations, and optimizing your connections and profile visibility. The overall goal is to present an accurate, compelling representation of your professional self online in order to spark useful conversations and opportunities.
This document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile that promotes your personal brand and connects you to others in a professional network. The tips include writing in an authentic voice rather than copying your resume, using a personal tagline and elevator pitch, highlighting skills, explaining experience succinctly, distinguishing yourself, engaging with others through questions and recommendations, and optimizing your profile's visibility through connections and a customized public URL. The overall goal is to present an accurate, compelling representation of your professional self that starts useful conversations and builds your credibility and network on LinkedIn.
10 Tips To Building A Strong Linked In ProfileCiara Fogarty
1. The document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile, including writing in an authentic voice, using a personal tagline and elevator pitch, highlighting skills, explaining experience, distinguishing yourself, asking and answering questions, getting recommendations, and building quality connections.
2. It advises treating your profile like branding by telling a credible story that promotes your skills and knowledge in a natural voice.
3. The tips encourage engaging readers in the first few seconds and helping people easily find and remember you through searchable sections and a customized public profile URL.
This document provides 10 tips for building a strong LinkedIn profile that promotes your personal brand and connects you to others in a professional network. The tips include writing in an authentic voice rather than copying your resume, using a personal tagline and elevator pitch, highlighting skills, explaining experience succinctly, distinguishing yourself, engaging with others through questions and recommendations, and optimizing your profile's visibility through connections and a customized public URL. The overall goal is to present an accurate, compelling representation of your professional self that starts useful conversations.
Effective Tips on LinkedIn - Building a strong profileMitesh Sanghvi
Effective Tips on LinkedIn is a series of presentations developed by Mitesh Sanghvi for beginners to LinkedIn to help them get most out of it. Building a strong profile is the first thing on LinkedIn. Best wishes!
This document provides tips and advice for using social media and traditional methods to get hired. It recommends completing your LinkedIn profile, connecting with recruiters and industry professionals, sharing useful content, and customizing your resume and cover letter for each job application. The key steps are starting an active social media presence now, focusing your online profiles and resume on your qualifications and achievements, and putting effort into networking and customizing materials for each employer.
This document provides tips for using social media and traditional methods to get hired. It recommends completing your LinkedIn profile, connecting with recruiters and industry professionals, and sharing useful content. For traditional methods, it advises tailoring your CV and cover letter for each role by highlighting relevant skills and experience. The document emphasizes maintaining a professional online presence and providing accurate information in applications.
This document provides tips on how to effectively network to find a job. It recommends spending more time networking than applying directly to job posts, as over 60% of active job seekers and 90% of less active candidates find jobs through networking. The key aspects of networking discussed are maintaining connections with former colleagues, optimizing your LinkedIn profile to showcase your skills and experience, joining relevant user groups, working with recruiters, and remembering that everyone you meet has potential to help you network if you ask for their assistance. Mistakes to avoid include not networking at all, relying solely on recruiters or job boards, disclosing too much personal information, and having an unpolished online presence or resume.
THE IT INTERVIEW: A QUICK GUIDE TO CAPTIVATING YOUR AUDIENCE THROUGH STORYTEL...Kelly Services
This document provides tips for using storytelling effectively in IT job interviews. It advises tailoring stories to the audience and sharing authentic examples that demonstrate skills relevant to the role and company. Examples of good storytelling topics include relevant work experiences, challenges overcome, and lessons learned. The document also warns against storytelling sins like using cliches or fabricating details that undermine credibility. Overall, the goal of storytelling in interviews is to make a personal connection with the interviewer and showcase enthusiasm for the company.
Up Your LinkedIn Game - Using LinkedIn for Personal Branding and Job Hunting ...Alexander Abell
This document provides tips and best practices for using LinkedIn effectively for personal branding and job hunting. It recommends crafting an informative profile headline and summary, filling out work experience and skills sections, regularly posting content, claiming a unique LinkedIn URL, connecting with others including recruiters and influencers, and networking both online and offline. The document emphasizes the importance of an engaged online presence for visibility and opportunities.
This document provides tips for managing your online brand and using LinkedIn effectively. It recommends setting up a professional LinkedIn profile with a photo, headline, and keyword-rich summary. The document also suggests connecting with contacts from business encounters, joining groups relevant to your industry, and using your network to research companies and people for job opportunities. Additionally, it advises linking your LinkedIn profile to other online profiles and resources to maintain a consistent professional online presence.
10 Top Tips for Getting Started on LinkedInJudy Parsons
With over 15 million profiles on LinkedIn in the UK alone, LinkedIn gives you the opportunity to find and get in front of your prospects, demonstrate your expertise and build relationships – for free!
Here are my top tips for getting started!
This document provides guidance on using LinkedIn to help find a new job. It emphasizes that networking is important for job searching, with less than a 10% chance of finding a job without connections. It outlines how to establish goals for your LinkedIn profile, develop a professional online presence, connect with contacts, search for jobs and groups, and etiquette for online networking. The document stresses that building relationships takes time but can uncover job opportunities through an expanded professional network.
This document provides guidance on using LinkedIn to help find a new job. It emphasizes that networking is important for job searching, with less than a 10% chance of finding a job without connections. It outlines how to establish goals for your LinkedIn profile, develop a professional online presence, connect with contacts, search for jobs and groups, and etiquette for online networking. The document stresses that building relationships takes time but can uncover job opportunities through an expanded professional network.
The document discusses how to effectively use LinkedIn for professional networking. It recommends creating a complete profile with details about work experience, education, skills and recommendations. It also suggests connecting with current and past colleagues, classmates, customers and professional contacts to build a strong professional network on LinkedIn. Connections should be invited with a personalized message explaining how you know them. Groups are another way to engage with contacts on LinkedIn in areas of common interest.
Still looking to find a job in your career? The job market is more competitive than ever before. There are steps however that candidates can do to leverage themselves above the competition a land a position in their dream career.
This document provides tips for optimizing a LinkedIn profile and using LinkedIn effectively. It recommends using a current professional headshot for the profile photo, including details like work experience, skills, recommendations and endorsements. It also discusses using LinkedIn to build relationships, find new connections, prospects and clients through searching, groups, messaging first-degree connections, and following influencers to showcase expertise.
6 Easy Steps to Getting Linked In on LinkedIn!Donna Serdula
The document outlines 6 easy steps to effectively using LinkedIn for professional networking: 1) Create a compelling profile with interesting information; 2) Connect with colleagues, classmates, and people you meet; 3) Ask and answer questions to demonstrate expertise and grow your reputation; 4) Create and join groups to expand your network and promote your work; 5) Listen to and interact with your connections; 6) Search, research, and discover people, companies, jobs, and opportunities through LinkedIn. Following these steps can help users build relationships, test ideas, make connections, and advance their careers.
Using LinkedIn Like a Pro to Grow your BusinessCourtney Hood
This presentation is about how to best utilize LinkedIn and how it relates to growing your business. The topics covered include:
1. LinkedIn for business - an overview
2. Effectively building out your profile
3. Tools to increase your credibility
4. Optimizing your profile
5. Growing your network
Presented by :Courtney Pemberton, Business Development Associate at Schipul - The Web Marketing Company
This document provides guidance for job seekers on conducting an effective job search. It recommends treating job hunting like a full-time job and outlines steps including self-assessment, developing personal marketing materials, utilizing job search channels, networking, interviewing, and negotiating. Key tips include keeping materials like business cards, resumes, and elevator speeches concise and focused on benefits. Networking is identified as the most important search channel, requiring ongoing relationship building. Thorough company research and tracking activities are also emphasized for a successful search process.
You will learn how to boost your personal and business presence, attract new leads and build referral relationships. This session is ideal for professionals at every level who want to learn new strategies for marketing themselves and their company, finding prospects, shortening the sales cycle, and getting results.
Topics covered:
- How to target companies and connect with the right people
- How to craft and optimize your profile
- How to find competitor and industry information
- Crucial LinkedIn etiquette
- How to establish yourself as a industry expert
- The best ways to promote yourself and your organization in - LinkedIn groups
Leveraging LinkedIn for B2B: Transitioning Contacts to ClientsStrella Social Media
LinkedIn is more than an online rolodex or resume site! When used optimally, this powerful medium presents an opportunity to directly connect with your target audience and strategically transition connections into leads. In this presentation, Rachel will share tactics for how to make lasting connections, enhance current relationships, and strategically transition contacts into viable leads. She’ll also share some common best practices to help you stand out from the crowd!
Topics covered:
Setting the stage: creating an optimal LinkedIn profile
Prospecting using groups and advanced search
Staying Top-of-Mind with relevant content
Transitioning contacts to leads
Utilizing best practices
This document discusses personal branding and provides tips for developing, showcasing, and maintaining a personal brand. It recommends creating a unique value proposition highlighting your strengths and differentiators. Tips are provided for using resumes, cover letters, social media, portfolios, and interviews to consistently project your personal brand to potential employers. The document emphasizes authenticity, research, preparation, and ongoing maintenance to effectively communicate your personal brand throughout the career search and interview process.
LinkedIn is a professional social networking site that allows users to connect with colleagues, research people and companies, and share content. It can be used to deepen existing relationships, find new referral sources and connections, and uncover hidden relationships within one's network. The document provides tips for setting up a professional profile, getting connected with 50+ contacts in the first month, researching connections' connections, and spending 10 minutes per day on the site participating in groups and answering questions. LinkedIn can open doors to new opportunities by helping users find potential clients and speeding introductions to other professionals.
Engaging At-Risk Students Through Both Reactive and Proactive.pptxKimberly Knowles
This is the slide deck from a presentation I gave at a NACADA conference on the programs and playbooks that I created for the University of San Francisco School of Management that I created to reduce churn and increase student engagement in the five years that I was there after being brought in as Retention and Matriculation Advisor.
Kimberly Knowles AI CASA Department Automation ProposalKimberly Knowles
My final project for a Kellogg School of Management Executive Ed course on Generative AI: Executive Strategies to Unlock Enterprise Value.
This is a proposal with ideas for enhancing student success and retention at USF and other universities using AI tools and data integration.
Note - the AI Canvas used is a proprietary Kellogg School of Management model.
Using Your Personality & Interests to Drive Career ChoiceKimberly Knowles
I used this presentation as part of my INTD 053 Exploring Majors and Careers course in Spring 2014 to help students better understand elements of personality that can affect their career choices.
I use this presentation in my Exploring Majors and Careers class to facilitate an exploration of values. When each values stance comes up, I have students move to designated parts of the room depending if they Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, or Strongly Disagree with the statement. I then ask them to explain why they feel that way and why they may have moved since the previous slide.
This is the presentation that I give each semester to Academic Probation students on the night before classes start to help inspire them for the semester ahead. It discusses what it means to be on probation, steps they can take to improve academically and resources available to help them.
Bus 100 Launch Into Business Advising PresentationKimberly Knowles
This is a presentation that I developed for most first year business students to introduce them to the business curriculum, our USFConnect registration / student records system, and resources and tools at USF to assist them.
Exploring majors and careers in business final versionKimberly Knowles
This is a presentation shell that I have used for a panel presentation to help students explore major and career options within business. The main "meat" of the presentation is the discussion with the panelists, but I still think it provides a useful framework for considering major options within business.
This was a proposal for a First Year Experience / Leadership program while working as an intern at OSU-Newark / Central Ohio Technical College in Summer 2006.
This is an old paper that I wrote in Spring of 2007 at the conclusion of an Education and Spirituality course that I took. For my more current thoughts on spirituality, see my blog: http://careerintuition.blogspot.com
This is a paper that I wrote recently for the Career Development Facilitator (CDF) Training that I am taking with the Center on Education and Work at UW-Madison
Exploring Majors and Careers - Key Questions to Ask YourselfKimberly Knowles
This is a guide that I developed in 2007 for a presentation on Self Motivation that I gave - it gives useful suggestions for questions to ask yourself to help narrow in a major or career choice.
These are some case study activities that I created to use with students in the Brown Bag session, "AM I IN THE RIGHT MAJOR?: Exploring Academic Programs at USF" that I facilitate.
This is a presentation that I gave to Arts and Science Seniors at The Ohio State University on Last Minute Job Search Strategies in preparation for graduation.
This is a presentation that I used to give to Ohio State University freshmen as part of the First Year Experience program - it emphasized how diversity awareness and leadership development could positively influence their career achievement.
Engaging At Risk Students Through Both Reactive and Proactive MeansKimberly Knowles
The document describes proactive and reactive programs created by an undergraduate program to increase student retention. It provides an overview of multiple intervention points to lay a solid foundation for students, repair cracks and build barriers when issues arise, and reverse damage for at-risk students. Proactive programs include freshman seminars and workshops on time management and majors exploration. Reactive programs include early alert systems, outreach to struggling students, and academic success plans. The document advocates a blueprint for retention that includes dedicated advising, faculty relationships, and online resources. It prompts discussion of effective retention practices and how to develop new intervention points.
Resumes, Cover Letters, and Applying OnlineBruce Bennett
This webinar showcases resume styles and the elements that go into building your resume. Every job application requires unique skills, and this session will show you how to improve your resume to match the jobs to which you are applying. Additionally, we will discuss cover letters and learn about ideas to include. Every job application requires unique skills so learn ways to give you the best chance of success when applying for a new position. Learn how to take advantage of all the features when uploading a job application to a company’s applicant tracking system.
Job Finding Apps Everything You Need to Know in 2024SnapJob
SnapJob is revolutionizing the way people connect with work opportunities and find talented professionals for their projects. Find your dream job with ease using the best job finding apps. Discover top-rated apps that connect you with employers, provide personalized job recommendations, and streamline the application process. Explore features, ratings, and reviews to find the app that suits your needs and helps you land your next opportunity.
Leadership Ambassador club Adventist modulekakomaeric00
Aims to equip people who aspire to become leaders with good qualities,and with Christian values and morals as per Biblical teachings.The you who aspire to be leaders should first read and understand what the ambassador module for leadership says about leadership and marry that to what the bible says.Christians sh
A Guide to a Winning Interview June 2024Bruce Bennett
This webinar is an in-depth review of the interview process. Preparation is a key element to acing an interview. Learn the best approaches from the initial phone screen to the face-to-face meeting with the hiring manager. You will hear great answers to several standard questions, including the dreaded “Tell Me About Yourself”.
5 Common Mistakes to Avoid During the Job Application Process.pdfAlliance Jobs
The journey toward landing your dream job can be both exhilarating and nerve-wracking. As you navigate through the intricate web of job applications, interviews, and follow-ups, it’s crucial to steer clear of common pitfalls that could hinder your chances. Let’s delve into some of the most frequent mistakes applicants make during the job application process and explore how you can sidestep them. Plus, we’ll highlight how Alliance Job Search can enhance your local job hunt.
5 Common Mistakes to Avoid During the Job Application Process.pdf
What Are Employers Looking For?
1. What Are Employers Looking For? Kimberly Renee Knowles kimberly@kimberlyknowles.com 513-404-9523
2. What Are Employers Looking For? An EASY and RISK-FREE solution to their problem(s)!
3. How a Typical Employer Fills a Vacancy What Color is My Parachute, Richard Bolles, 2008 Edition, p. 28-33
4. Key Idea: The more familiar and risk-free you seem to the hiring manager, the less qualified “on paper” you need to be!
5. How Can You Position Yourself Accordingly? Networking Resumes & Cover Letters Interviewing Portfolios References & Professionalism
6. Networking Cultivate relationships with hiring managers – and those whom they trust for referrals Informational Interviews Professional Associations Volunteer Work Former colleagues!
7. Resumes & Cover Letters Get yourself invited in for an interview! Demonstrate specific achievements Use keywords Highlight how you are a match Show how you can meet their needs!
9. Portfolios Prove you can do the job! Showcase examples of your work Explore both physical options and online tools Create your own website Create your own blog
10. References Seal the deal and get the job! Don’t burn bridges with former employers Acquire recommendations on LinkedIn Prepare your references ahead of time
11. Professionalism Don’t forget the fundamentals! Be on time for interviews Dress appropriately Watch your Facebook profile Always send a thank you note!