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Building Your LinkedIn Network

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This is a simulcast of No B. S. Job Search Advice Radio

On this show, Jeff speaks about how to build your LinkedIn network.

 

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.

Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.

Visit www.TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot more advice there.

Email me if your firm is trying to hire someone.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

Pay what you want for my books about job search

Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us

Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching program.

Want to ask me a question via email, chat or phone ? Reach me via PrestoExperts or Clarity.fm

10 Words to Avoid Using on LinkedIn

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In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses the most frequently abused words on LinkedIn and why you should avoid them.

 

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.

Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.

Visit www.TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot more advice there.

Email me if your firm is trying to hire someone.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

Pay what you want for my books about job search

Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us

Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching program.

Want to ask me a question via email, chat or phone ? Reach me via PrestoExperts or Clarity.fm

Hangout with Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter: Building Your LinkedIn Network

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On this show, Jeff speaks about how to build your LinkedIn network.

 

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.

Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.

Visit www.TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot more advice there.

Email me if your firm is trying to hire someone.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

Pay what you want for my books about job search

Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us

Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching program.

Want to ask me a question via email, chat or phone ? Reach me via PrestoExperts or Clarity.fm

 

5 Tips to Using LinkedIn Better

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Here are some things you can do with your LinkedIn profile:

1. Put a professional looking had shot on you LinkedIn profile

2. Use your profile header on LinkedIn to make yourself standout more

Here’s the header to mine:

Jeff Altman
Recruiter. Hiring? Ask me how I’ve filled 1200+ positions & have them enjoy working with me.

You can do something to make your profile’s header more effective.

3. Finish your profile. Particularly if you are a consultant, make sure you list many of the firms you consulted to over the past five years.

4. Write a description of what you did at your former employers’ with key words and search engine optimization in mind. The idea is to get yourself found.

5. Add to your connections

Did You Know There Was Free Job Posting on LinkedIn?

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There are three ways to place job ads on LinedIn.

The first way is if you click on their jobs tab and place an ad. A single ad is $195. If you purchase a bundle of 5 ads, the cost per ad is reduced to $145; if you purchase a bundle for 10 ads, they reduce it to $115.

Not bad . . . but not free.

The second way is free and pretty good (I’ll explain why in a second).

If you go to Facebook, there is a free application there called icims. It is 39.95 (not free)  and will allow you to post your jobs to your Facebook profile (whoopdee-doo; unless someone is online at the point your ad scrolls by, they won’t see it), posts it to your Twitter profile (probably a whoop-dee-do if you only have a small number of followers) and cross posts it to SimplyHired.com.

SimplyHired provides the feed for the web jobs offered by that tab on LinkedIn.

So, if someone is searching for a job and is finished searching their skills on LinkedIn, they will automatically be offered jobs from SimplyHired (you can also read resumes on JobMagic’s site on Facebook but, so far, what I have read has been pretty useless).

Not bad, but I don’t know many people who actually search jobs on LinkedIn.

There is a better way–go to the Groups tab and search for a tab representing the skill, function or, perhaps a target firm that you want to hire from, join and post an ad to the group.

Completely free and will be seen by all the members.

 

 

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Tough Interview Questions: How Do You Use LinkedIn?

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter encourages you to go beyond the obvious answer to the more subtle and powerful one.

 

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.

Follow him at the Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.

Visit my website, http://www.TheBigGameHunter.us to sign up for a complimentary subscription to No B.S. Job Search Advice Ezine, pay what you want for my books and guides to job hunting and watch hundreds of other videos about job hunting and hiring.

Connect with me on LinkedIn.

Subscribe to TheBigGameHunterTV on YouTube for advice about job hunting and hiring. Like videos, share and comment.

Listen to Job Search Radio, No B. S. Job Search Advice Radio and No B. S. Hiring Advice Radio in iTunes and other podcast directories and apps.

Pay what you want for my books about job search

Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us

Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching program.

Want to ask me a question via email, chat or phone ? Reach me via PrestoExperts or Clarity.fm

Using LinkedIn Contacts for Effective Networking

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When I think of LinkedIn Contacts, I am not speaking of the people you are connected with on LinkedIn but the app LinkedIn Contacts that is available for iOS and Android devices.

For someone like me who does recruiting and for someone like you who needs to create effective AND REGULAR networking campaigns, LinkedIn Contacts has a number of great features to help you.

Here are a few things you can do through Contacts:

1. Aggregate all of your relationships in one place.

LinkedIn Contacts, like many programs, will pull all of your elationships and relationship history into one place. You don’t have to log into your personal email account or Exchange account to communicate with people with whom you are not connected on LinedIn. LinkedIn makes it possible.

2. Send congratulations updates

Click on the day and you’ll see who has good news to share. Use voice software built into your phone to send notes to people to offer congratulations.

3. Easier Search Capabilities

On the left side of the app, you can search by Connections, Saved, Tags, Companies, Titles, Locations, Sources, Potential Merges and Hidden.

You can also sort your contacts by different criteria such as where they came from, whether they were imported into LinkedIn some time ago, by the Outlook contacts you’ve recently added and also by an app you may use such as CardMunch.

4. See where your connections are

Contacts will pin the location of your contacts.

5. Easier sorting

If you click on the profile of a first-degree connections or a person you have sent an InMail to, you’ll see more information about your past correspondence and relationship with them.

There are several places to make notes and keep details. What you enter is here is not viewable to the public. Write as much as you need.

6. Set Reminders. Stay Connected.

I know I have been guilty of not staying connected with my contacts on LinkedIn and now with more than 10000 first level connections, it is even harder. Use Contacts to set reminders for yourself and send people notes.

7. Set Reminders of When and Where You Met Someone

Replacing the note in your address book or Rolodex, the app lets you keep track of how you met someone PLUS the ability to create tags of your choice.

8. View Messages You Sent to Someone.

9. Share Your Calendar

When you import or sync your calendars, shared calendar events are also shown.

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No B. S. Hiring Advice: New LinkedIn Policy Change Punishes Users

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In this video, Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter discusses a policy change LinkedIn is made regarding inMails.

 

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.

Follow him at The Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.

Visit www.TheBigGameHunter.us. There’s a lot more advice there.

Connect with me on LinkedIn

Pay what you want for my books about job search

Trying to hire someone? Email me at JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us

Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching program.

Want to ask me a question via email, chat or phone ? Reach me via PrestoExperts or Clarity.fm

Hangout WIth Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter: The Value of a Large LinkedIn Network

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On this show, Jeff discusses the benefits and draw backs of having big networks and small networks on LinkedIn.

This is a simulcast of No B. S. Job Search Advice Radio

 

Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a recruiter for more than 40 years.

Follow him at the Big Game Hunter, Inc. on LinkedIn for more articles, videos and podcasts than what are offered here and jobs he is recruiting for.

Visit my website, http://www.TheBigGameHunter.us to sign up for a complimentary subscription to No B.S. Job Search Advice Ezine, pay what you want for my books and guides to job hunting and wants hundreds of other videos about job hunting and hiring.

Connect with me on LinkedIn.

Subscribe to TheBigGameHunterTV on YouTube for advice about job hunting and hiring. Like videos, share and comment.

Listen to Job Search Radio, No B. S. Job Search Advice Radio and No B. S. Hiring Advice Radio in iTunes and other podcast directories and apps.

Do you need more in-depth coaching? Join my Coaching program.

Want to ask me a question via email, chat or phone ? Reach me via PrestoExperts or Clarity.fm

Headhunting Your Next Job

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When I started my ezine, I did so because I understood that I could only do so much to concretely help someone find a job with a client of mine. My clients want people with certain backgrounds at certain times and unless we have the right timing, your excellent experience may not be useful to them.

So now let’s look at some simple strategies to help you that may not be obvious to you:

1) Develop good professional relationships with people in other departments . When you have an opportunity to connect with someone in another department or group, don’t just treat it as a one time occurrence; use it as a springboard to a good connection taht may result in being introduced to or being hired by your next employer.

2) Get to know the right people . This one is related to the first. people with VP or better job titles may be able to hire you or influence those who can hire you.

3) When people give their notice, make sure to get their personal email address and home numbers. These people are your reference. Your introductions to managers at a new company. People who know you and can recommend you. You need to know multiple ways to connect with them in the future.

4) Cultivate a relationship with an experienced recruiter. I’m biased here. I have 30+ years experience. I have a brain and ethics. Most 24 year olds don’t have any of those things. There are some people, particularly managers who I only hear from when they are fired. Otherwise, I’m treated like vermin. There are people with whom I’ve had contact for years and have hustled to help them get re-positioned because I understand them. And it doesn’t take a lot of time. A five minute call out of the blue once a year goes a long way in my book.

5) Line up your network on the social network sites like Linked In. It’s too late to wait until the last minute.

 

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