Saving jobs and creating alerts - LinkedIn Tutorial

- [Instructor] When looking for jobs on LinkedIn, you might not be ready to apply. The moment you see something interesting, that's where the save feature comes in. Right now, I'm in the job search that we just started for a software engineer in Denver, and again, on the left I can see the opportunities here, the jobs that are posted, and then on the right I can see those job descriptions. Now, for any of these job listings, you'll see a save button up at the top. If you click on this, it will then add that to your saved jobs list. You can get to this list by navigating up to the jobs icon again up at the top. And then on the left, my jobs, if I click here, I will see my saved jobs, and right now the one I just added is my only saved jobs. I can also see jobs that I have in progress, ones that I've applied to, or maybe ones that I've archived. Now for the jobs that are in here, you can click on this three icon and apply. You can send in a message to someone, copy the link, and then you can unsave it from here to remove it from this list. This is a great way to stay organized, especially if you like to batch your applications or revisit jobs later with a more tailored resume. Next, let's talk about job alerts. After you run a job search, you'll see an option to set an alert for that search. I'm going to back up here and navigate back to that job search that we were doing for engineer in Denver, Colorado, and then we added mid senior level, hybrid and more. Now, anytime you run a search like this, you'll see an option to set an alert for it. You can do that by simply clicking here on set alert and it will turn that on. LinkedIn will notify you when new jobs are posted that match your search criteria, including any filters that you've applied. This helps to stay on top of new opportunities without having to repeat the same search every day. Now you can manage your alerts by going to the jobs tab again at the top this time on the left, navigate to preferences and then job alerts. Here you can see any job alerts that you have in here, and when you click on them here, say Edit. You can decide on the frequency of your notifications. So do you want to be alerted daily or maybe just weekly where you get a list of the new ones, and you can choose whether you want to receive an email, a notification inside of LinkedIn or both. In this case I have it daily, email and notification if I want to change that, I can. And then click on save. Now back inside of here is also where you can turn on or off top job picks for you. If you don't want to see these recommendations, you can turn them off. However, I want to keep that on. When you're done, click done and we're back. So now what that does is LinkedIn will send me any new jobs that have been posted that fit the criteria that I was searching for. So great way to stay on top of things. Using the save and alert features together is a simple way to stay organized and consistent throughout your job search. In the next video, we'll look at how to read job descriptions more strategically so you can spot the roles that are truly the right ones for you.