How to notify recruiters on linkedin
How to Privately Signal to Recruiters You’re Open to New Job Opportunities? | Career Move
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- Hi, today I will like to show you
how you can use your LinkedIn profile
when you're looking for a job,
and I'm going to share with you my five amazing tips
as a ex-LinkedIn employee.
Let's get started.
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Welcome, if it's your first time in my channel,
welcome to my channel.
In this channel, I cover career tips, best practices,
and best practice on LinkedIn for personal profile
and company profile.
So if you wanna know more,
you can check out my other videos as well.
But today, I want to show you five important tips
that you can actually apply,
and that's really going to help you to find the dream job
that you're looking for, so let's start with the first one.
Under your Private Settings, there's one section
that you should definitely activate,
that's called Open Candidate.
So Open Candidate is a section where you can secretly
let recruiters know that you're looking for a job.
You have multiple options when you're looking for a job.
One, you can make a post and announce that you're looking
for a job and let your network know,
but if you don't want your network know
that you're looking for a job
but you still want to signal the recruiters,
there's a section that LinkedIn built in in your profile
and you can actually activate that.
So let me show you where you can find this.
When you come to your LinkedIn profile,
at the top right corner
you're going to see your little photo,
so click on that little photo,
and you're going to see some Privacy and Settings.
When you come to the Privacy and Settings,
you're going to see the job section right under that,
and in that section there's a place,
we call it, the LinkedIn calls it as,
let recruiters know that you're looking for a job.
When you toggle that on,
you're going to be letting your recruiters know
and the people who are like looking for candidates,
that they can actually see your profile
and they can see that you're looking for a job.
This doesn't notify your network,
but this also notifies recruiters who are using
the LinkedIn platform to find some candidates.
So it's an amazing secret tool that most people don't know.
Again, it's called Open Candidates.
Second tip that I wanna share with you is a skill section.
A skill section's really, really important
because it includes keywords for a LinkedIn profile.
When recruiters are looking for candidates,
they don't know your name and your last name,
so there's no way for them to search you
if they don't know you.
But the way that they can actually find you
is base location and the skills.
Updating your skill section is extremely crucial,
so do your best update them.
So you might be asking yourself how am I going
to update my skill section because I really don't know
if I should put that keyword or not?
So here's the tip for you.
Way that you can actually do
is basically go and look for the jobs.
Go and look for the qualifications and descriptions,
and look for the keywords,
and take those keywords and put it to your LinkedIn profile.
Let's say if you are an art director
and if you know certain programs and projects
that you have done, and if you know like certain languages
as a computer engineer,
definitely put those keywords to your skill section.
That's going to make your profile more find-able.
And don't forget the check your private.
Because in your private settings,
if you're restricting your privacy section
of your LinkedIn profile,
it's hard for recruiters to find you.
You can definitely change your privacy settings
under the Private Section of your LinkedIn profile.
The last two tips.
The other one that I want to share with you
is a summary section.
Summary section is the elevator pitch
that you will be creating for your own profile.
So if you're just looking for a job
and you're optimizing your LinkedIn profile,
I highly recommend you, as a ex-LinkedIn employee,
not to skip the summary section.
Summary section should be very brief.
The way that you can actually use a summer section
is you can make it like a couple sentences, very brief,
your objective that you can think of on your resume
or in bullet points.
What are the things we are looking for?
And what are the things you can offer
for a company that you wanna work for?
Definitely include your summary section
and make your LinkedIn profile, as they call it, all stars.
When you complete every single section of LinkedIn profile,
your profile's going to be all stars
and it will be more find-able for the recruiters
when they are looking for candidates like you.
And the last step, the headline,
it's one of the most important pieces.
Because when people are looking for candidates,
right under your name,
that's where they're going to see,
your picture, your name, and the headline.
So if you're looking for a job and it's okay for you
to announce your network that you're looking for a job,
you can change your headline right there.
Because headlines' the first thing
that most people are seeing.
So to summarize, don't forget to turn
on your open candidate section.
Two, don't forget to update your skill section,
and you can update yours up to 50.
Don't forget to include your summary.
And the last one, don't forget to include your headline.
If you wanna know more about career tips and tricks
and using LinkedIn more effectively,
you can check out my other videos as well.
I'll look forward to seeing you on my next video.
Bye for now.
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