"I attended a LinkedIn workshop by Wayne, updated my LinkedIn profile using all his awesome tips and got 4 interviews with top Fortune 500 companies 5 days later." - Sandra Palacios-Serrato (July 9, 2021)
So, what specific tip did I share with Sandra to get these game-changing results?
Well, it's hard to know exactly because I shared so many actionable LinkedIn tips and strategies at that event, but I'm pretty sure the three tips outlined below just might be the ticket to your next set of impactful interviews.
By the way, I share these and many more tips, tricks, and strategies for job seekers of all ages during my virtual one-on-one LinkedIn consultations. Click here to check out the details and book your personal session with me.
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1. Enable the Open to Work feature on your LinkedIn profile
Lots of job seekers didn't even notice when this feature when it became available a couple of years ago. If you're one of those people, you better head to your settings ASAP and get this set up correctly. It won't take more than five minutes.
You can choose five specific job titles and locations you're interested in as well as the type of job (full-time, part-time, contract, etc.). And it's your decision whether you show this information on your profile or hide it. Learn how to do it here.
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2. Create LinkedIn Job Alerts for the right jobs and the right companies
You can now set specific job alerts for the companies you're interested in and notify those companies' recruiters that you're interested. This capability showed up without much fanfare last year, and it's a real game changer.
This may take you ten minutes, but when you're done you'll begin receiving notifications for the right jobs (not just the jobs LinkedIn thinks are right for you), and recruiters at your target companies may actually reach out to you directly. Here is a LinkedIn article that will take you through the steps.
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3. Add the right keywords in the right places on your LinkedIn profile
Simply put, LinkedIn is just one big database of people's profiles (resumes on steroids). When recruiters and HR professionals are performing specific searches for people like you, they use keywords to narrow their searches to the very best candidates. These keywords are typically things like job titles, skills, schools, industries, etc. The search results they get from LinkedIn are in an order that LinkedIn calls "relevancy to the searcher."
In order to get near the top of their searches, you have to be more relevant to them than the other people on the search results list. The easiest way to become more relevant is to add the right keywords (important words in job postings) to the right sections of your LinkedIn profile.
Based on my experience of working with thousands of job seekers over the years, placing those words in your Headline, Job Titles, and Skills & Endorsements sections will improve your position in the search results in just minutes.
There you have it—three simple LinkedIn steps that in just 30 minutes should improve your chances of being included on the shortlist of candidates who get an interview.
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Here are a few comments from my recent clients:
"Great job offer received via LinkedIn only two days after consulting with Wayne!"
"I highly recommend Wayne's 1:1 Linked In coaching session. Per Wayne's guidance, I reached out to the SVP of Client Success for a company I saw a suitable role. I used language Wayne provided in our 1:1 session to initiate the contact...Since then I've had an initial interview and interacted with the SVP multiple times."
"He made the learning experience fun, interesting, and was a big help to me. It has increased my exposure almost two-fold in a couple weeks."
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