5 Ways LinkedIn Can Help With Your Job Search

If it’s been a few years since your last job search, you might not be familiar with LinkedIn.com, a powerful website that can help you find the job you’re looking for — and help recruiters find you. The site allows users to create resume-like profiles, connect with colleagues, and search job listings. Here’s how you can put LinkedIn to work for you:

1. Put your skills on display. A LinkedIn profile is like a resume, but better. It allows you to show off some personality and go into more detail about your career highlights. Use it to your advantage by posting a professional photo of yourself and adding a few more work samples than you normally send to recruiters. You also can discuss projects, honors, and awards that are too time- and space-consuming to put on a resume.

2. Show whom you know. A good word from your supervisor or a co-worker is valuable, but it’s even better if you are recommended to the person doing the hiring by someone they already know and trust. LinkedIn can help you figure out how to make that happen. If you can find the profile of your potential future boss, you can find out if the two of you share any LinkedIn connections, or if you know someone who knows someone who knows him or her. Then you’ve just got to connect the dots.

3. Let job recruiters find you. While you’re busy searching employment websites for your next opportunity, there might be a company out there that’s looking for someone just like you, and their recruiters are probably looking for that person on LinkedIn. If you have a detailed and robust profile that highlights your experience and skills, recruiters can easily spot you and know that they’ve got a potential candidate in their sights.

4. Find out if you have the experience a company wants for the position. Tantalizing job listings are often accompanied by a nagging feeling that you might be under-qualified, and that you would be wasting your time and getting your hopes up unnecessarily by even applying. But spend some quality time with LinkedIn’s “Advanced Search” feature, and you can often turn up the profiles of others who have or had the job you want. Seeing how their previous work experience stacks up with yours can help you see what the company might be looking for, and decide if you’ve got a realistic chance.

5. Find out what others with your caliber of education and experience are doing. LinkedIn’s “Find Alumni” feature is fun for tracking down old college friends, but it can also be a good source of ideas if you’re not sure what type of job might be a good fit for you. Search for fellow alumni who graduated around the same time you did, since they should have a similar amount of work experience, and see what they’re up to these days.

LinkedIn can be an amazing tool for your job search, and these tips are just a few ideas to get you started. Spend some time on the site, and you’ll quickly start figuring out what it can do for you. For more information visit https://www.resumestoyou.com.au/ We can also assist with LinkedIn profiling https://www.resumestoyou.com.au/linkedin-profiling/. Also follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/resumes-to-you-?trk=nav_account_sub_nav_company_admin