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Should I Quit LinkedIn? (VIDEO)

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I have a large network on LinkedIn but no one will help me. Should I quit LinkedIn?

 

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Do you really think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

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How to SEO Your LinkedIn Profile | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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EP 592 Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains how to SEO your LinkedIn profile.

How to SEO your LinkedIn profile

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Do you really think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

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How Can I Get Jobs From LinkedIn? | Job Search Radio

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There are many many ways to answer this. Here are a few basics. 

 

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If you have a question about job hunting, email me at JobSearchRadio@gmail.com. I can’t answer every question . . . but you knew that!

Do you think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com is there to change that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

Please give “Job Search Radio” a great review in iTunes. It helps other people discover the show and makes me happy!

Looking Like an Expert on LinkedIn | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains one of the ways to look like a subject matter expert on LinkedIn.

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Today I want to tell you how to appear like a subject matter expert on LinkedIn. It’s very easy and it is a fairly new feature on LinkedIn called the LinkedIn Publisher Platform. Almost everyone now has access to this feature. It allows you to post longform articles on almost any subject whatsoever.

Don’t be stupid and post ridiculous things. Be smart. The game plan with LinkedIn is to appear like a subject matter expert wherever you can. By writing regularly (I’m not saying to write daily or weekly). If you write one article every 2 or 3 weeks and posted and keep to a schedule of doing that, you will develop followers who like what you write. I’m seeing ordinary individuals who are getting 2 to 4000 people following them.

Your game plan is to establish a regular schedule of writing quality articles about what you do. Obviously, in some fields, this will work. If you are an administrative assistant, I can’t see you doing an article every 3 weeks. You can talk about organizing someone’s calendar. You can write about how to be defective administrative assistant. To do something like this on a regular schedule may be too hard for you.

I do see IT people doing. I do see accounting and finance people doing. Certainly headhunters do it. There are lots of different things that you can do to demonstrate that you are an expert using this platform. Because it is going to allow you to write longer articles that people will follow, read, and develop an impression of you.

That’s really what LinkedIn is all about– being seen and heard professionally, not like on Facebook, so that you develop the professional reputation where people want to connect with you and they want to hire you and retain your services.

When I look at the future in the United States. I’m not seeing the future of full-time jobs. I’m seeing a lot more freelance work ahead for us– where people work for stretches with an organization and then go on to another organization, more like the free-agent model.

If I’m right, this is an ideal platform where people are going to reach out to you and want to hire you. If I am wrong, companies are going to reach out to you. There is no losing proposition here!

When all is said and done, start using LinkedIn’s Publishing Platform to get articles published.

Where do you find it?On your homepage, if you have access to the features I suspect you do,on your homepage, beneath your photo, approximately 1/3 of the way down the page, there are 3 boxes to choose from.  The right hand most 1 says, “Write an article.”

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Do you really think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

LinkedIn Mistake #1 (VIDEO)

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses a major mistake people make when they are on LinkedIn.

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I want to talk with you about 1 of the mistakes I see time and again on LinkedIn. That way too many people are making with their profiles.  It’s what I call, “the skimpy profile.”

Yes, the skimpy profile.  The skimpy LinkedIn profile.  Maybe you’ve written 2 lines underneath each employer and you have this enormous summary.  Maybe. You have this profile I’ve seen all the time – – 2 lines in the region. Employer. 2 lines in the summary.  How do you think people are going to find you?

Seriously, how do you think people will find you unless they already know you?

Part of what you use LinkedIn for is to attract opportunities to you.  People knock on your metaphorical door and reach out to you to say, “hey, I have an opportunity. Let’s talk.”  You say yes or no, after you hear about the opportunity.  Not before; after.  Then, if you think about it, if you have 2 lines there, there are probably no keywords there, there is no SEO (search engine optimization). There is nothing there that would be interesting to them. Potential employer or recruiter that would cause them to reach out to you.

If you stuff the summary area within enormous list of keywords and then have nothing to back it up onto your jobs, employers have no idea when you did this thing.

Employers are all trained by the resume experience and they will believe that job hunters are trying to con them in order to get an interview.  When they see lots of summary stuff at the beginning of a resume, and relatively little later on (like the functional resume that tells you everything about a person in their life, their career and where they worked, but it’s all separated from one another). You will learn that this person did some of this stuff, but did 15 years ago.  No value.

You have to look at your profile like it is an extended resume.  I don’t mean a longer resume.  I mean an extension of the resume.  You have to have a good quality summary that outlines what you have done and how you went about doing and a few metrics.  You want to have your contact information. There email address and phone number.  This is true particularly if you are job hunting.

From there, underneath each employer or consulting assignment, depending upon how you have it listed, you want to have supportive information to what you have in the summary.  That is also going to help you with your search engine optimization with LinkedIn because LinkedIn will see multiple instances of those keywords and help rank you higher.

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Do you really think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

Give Endorsements to Get Endorsements on LinkedIn | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter encourages you to give endorsements on LinkedIn in order to get endorsements on LinkedIn.

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Here’s a way to really stand out from your competition.

Understand that there are a lot of recruiters both corporate and third-party recruiters who are using a product called LinkedIn Recruiter to identify candidates on the web.  What we are doing is going out there to evaluate skills and (1) search engine optimizing your profile with keywords that might be used as part of the search for what you do is a big part of how you might become visible. Another way to stand out is by receiving endorsements.

You can ask your entire network to endorse you, but, frankly, you look like a mooch when you do that.  I want to suggest that you reach out by giving endorsements.  Remember the old saying, “Give more.  Get more.”  Giving endorsements, particularly to those who know you so that they profit by the relationship, will help you get endorsements back in return.

I want to say that there is reciprocity because I don’t give endorsements because I don’t really know the work that you do.  I don’t sit next to you. I’m a coach.  I’ve done recruiting.  If I give endorsements, people will believe that your entire list of endorsements is bogus!,  Instead, I want to encourage you  to give endorsements to those who you have a basis of judging their work.  Complement people.

You’ll discover that your number of endorsements will increase.  Knowing that there is a bias that recruiters and employers have toward passive candidates, you will look like the superior person to them by having large numbers of endorsements.  After all, when you think about it, when you look at my LinkedIn profile and see that I have been endorsed 500 some odd times for one attribute or another, there is a message and that, especially, especially when you notice that the average recruiter may have fewer than 20.

Stand out from my work because people have seen it and like it.  Look for that same thing, too, but give it in order to get it.

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Do you really think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

Be Careful Using the LinkedIn Job Search App | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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HILVERSUM, NETHERLANDS - JANUARY 28, 2014: Linkedin is a social networking website for people in professional occupations. As of June 2013 more than 259 million users in more than 200 countries.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses the features of the new LinkedIn Job Search app and how not to use it.

 

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I want to talk with you about the LinkedIn job search app, currently in iOS only.  The app allows you to search for jobs through mobile device.

Big deal.

What they are doing is a few different things.  The 1st thing is maintaining privacy.  Historically, LinkedIn notifies members or connections of yours about activity that you are engaged.  You may not really care about that but if you are connected to your manager, that’s a problem, of course.  The mobile app doesn’t do that. It maintains complete privacy about your activities across your network.

Let me read some of the additional functionality to you:

it allows you to search by title, location, or keywords.

It will recommend jobs to you based upon saved searches, jobs that you have viewed and your LinkedIn profile.

It will give you notifications when new jobs match what you are looking for

it does processing from your LinkedIn profile.

Fundamentally, the idea of being able to. Find out about jobs through an app is a good idea.  However, if you are going to be applying for job, make sure “I’m sure that what they’re going to suggest that you forge your LinkedIn profile to an employer as part of the replication process.  What they are trying to do is replace the resume), you have to make sure that your profile demonstrates a fit for the role, otherwise, it is just like a generic resume. It will work sometimes, but not often enough.

Again, before you apply for job you have to make sure the profile fits otherwise you are just wasting everyone’s time.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

The Secret to Getting More People Contacting You on LinkedIn | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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HILVERSUM, NETHERLANDS - JANUARY 28, 2014: Linkedin is a social networking website for people in professional occupations. As of June 2013 more than 259 million users in more than 200 countries.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains how to get more people reaching out to you on LinkedIn.

 

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Let’s talk today about LinkedIn and asked the question, “Why aren’t you getting enough calls or contacts from your LinkedIn profile?”

Generally, there are 2 reasons.

You haven’t made it easy enough for people to find you.  Here’s how to make it easier.  You know how in your resume, when you uploaded to an applicant tracking system, the system is looking for keywords in your resume and how they need to be positioned in certain places on your resume in order for you to be found?

With LinkedIn, when recruiters, both corporate and third-party recruiters, are searching for resumes, they are doing much the same thing.  The system has to identify you by your keywords in order for you to be found.

For example, all those times that you talk about being a “visionary,” “hardcharging,” “dynamic,” “a top performer,” is taking away from keywords.  If you are in IT, you are use to buzz words.  I use that is negative slang, as it was intended to.  Think of it as what it is you do, the technology employed, the nature of the applications are infrastructure that you work in, and how many people you manage, are the resources on-site or offshore, and get that into your resume.

Again, on-site and offshore are keywords.  J2EE JEE are keywords Cisco. Take in terms of the keywords to be found.

If you’re in accounting, GAAP, Oracle, Accounts Receivable,SOX, compliance.

If your financial markets, you may make sure that you mention operations, front office, middle office, back office… You get the idea.

What you need to do is think of positioning your keywords visibly in your LinkedIn profile so it is easy for the LinkedIn search engine to find you, as well.

Remember, from the employer’s perspective, they can’t see a lot about you if you are a 3rd level connection unless they use LinkedIn Recruiter. For those who don’t use LinkedIn Recruiter, they are stil trying to find people AND you want to make it easy for them to connect with you.

In your summary area, I want you to include your email address and phone number if you ae looking for work and just your email address if you aren’t looking.

Why?

The person who gets ahead isn’t always the smartest or work the hardest, although those are great qualities to have. The person who gets ahead is the one who remains alert to opportunities. Sometimes, they are internal to your organization. Most of the time they are external to it.

You may think of yourself as being the happies person in the world at your job, but another $20000 might make you a lot happier and you will probably still be doing great work.

So, make sure your email address and phone numbers are in the summary if you are looking for work. Make it easy for people to find you with useflu keywords and you will notice the numbers of your contacts go up.

By the way, if you are not looking for work and want to make a change to your profile, turn off the notifications feature for your contacts in the config section of your LinkedIn profile. This way, everyone will not be notified when you make a small change. Your boss who you are connected with isn’t going to be notified that you made this small change.  Then, turn it back on afterwards.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you?

You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes

Activating Your LinkedIn Network | No BS Job Search Advice Radio

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Jeff Altman. The Big Game Hunter explains how to quickly activate your LinkedIn network of connections.

 

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I want to give you a tip, today, about how to get your LinkedIn network activated I notified that you are looking for a position. I don’t claim credit for this 1. I have seen a number of people do this and I think it is a very smart idea.

Let’s say you were laid off in May, in whatever year you are listening to this podcast. What you do is get a job on your profile and list your job title, the company you are at, “now available.”  Maybe use the phrase in transition.  I like the term now available better because in transition is 1 of those catchphrases.  Now available is not a catchphrase.

But the phrase, “Now Available,” in the job title and LinkedIn will broadcast the message to everyone that you are connected with to let them know that you are looking for work.  Some people will respond to congratulating you because they are not really paying attention.  But a lot of people will be notified and then you can follow up with them and speak with them further.

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Do you think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell you as much as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.

The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.

JobSearchCoachingHQ.com changes that with great advice for job hunters—videos, my books and guides to job hunting, podcasts, articles, PLUS a community for you to ask questions of PLUS the ability to ask me questions where I function as your ally with no conflict of interest answering your questions.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

You can order a copy of “Diagnosing Your Job Search Problems” for Kindle for $.99 and receive free Kindle versions of “No BS Resume Advice” and “Interview Preparation.”

Don’t forget to give the show 5 stars and a good review in iTunes