Networking & LinkedIn: Creating Partnerships in Your Job Search
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This document discusses how networking and using LinkedIn can help one market themselves as a candidate of choice in a competitive job market. It provides tips on how to build and leverage connections through professional associations, alumni groups, recommendations, and content sharing on LinkedIn and SlideShare. The key is to build relationships, join groups, be discoverable online, and use social media to promote one's skills and what they are currently working on.
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Networking & LinkedIn: Creating Partnerships in Your Job Search
- 1. © 2009 Lynn Hazan and Associates. All Rights Reserved Networking & LinkedIn: Creating Partnerships in your Job Search AMA MeetUp - March 2009
- 2. “ One lesson stands out: Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, whether you make it onto the Fortune 500, and whether you stay there, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you” Jim Collins Fortune , May 5, 2008
- 3. How to get a job When there are more candidates than openings? Copyright 2009 by Lynn Hazan & Associates - www.lhazan.com
- 4. YOU get very creative And apply your smarts to market yourself as a Candidate of Choice
- 5. Online Job Boards Mass- decreasing effectiveness Niche- targeted- higher usage LinkedIn- de facto Aggregators- capture jobs-increased use Indeed.com, SimplyHired.com Juju.com, e.g.
- 6. Web 2.0 Shift in Content Professional Professional pubs Newspapers Trade magazines Business pubs Reference books Professional Associations Citizen Generated Blogs RSS Feeds YouTube Google Wikis Online Communities Vs.
- 7. Heed these words “The future belongs to those who prepare for it” -Ralph Waldo Emerson To be valued, one must build value
- 8. How to Re-Define Yourself in a Changing World Who are you? Strengths & Core Competencies Reinvent yourself, your skills
- 9. Networking = Human Rapport and Relationship Fun Lifelong
- 11. Key to Networking Build lifelong relationships Build within/outside companies Join professional associations,online social networks Build horizontally & vertically
- 12. Spheres of Influence -- Individual Contacts YOU Arts/Culture Listservs Professional Associations Social Clubs Places of Worship Universities Attended Sports and Clubs Community Organizations Fill in your own group Fill in your own group
- 13. Professional Associations AMA, CWIP, IABC, PRSA BMA, CADM Charities and causes: Volunteer and get involved Continue education
- 14. The C’s of Social Media Content Community Connections Conversation Constantly changing
- 15. Refresh your content regularly
- 16. Make Sure You Are Discoverable Easy to contact from your LinkedIn page: Via email address Link to Blog Phone number So that Recruiters AND Hiring Managers can Find YOU
- 17. Add your own firm
- 18. Invitation to join LinkedIn Dear Lynn, I look forward to meeting you and learning from your presentation tonight at the AMA meetup. I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. Thanks, Patricia Sorenson Personalize your invitations
- 19. Recommendations Get recommended Recommend others
- 20. Alumni groups Professional associations Create your own group Join groups
- 21. A candidate promoting herself through LinkedIn groups
- 22. Results!
- 23. What I Am Working On Promote yourself to your network
- 24. What are you working on? Keep up with your network
- 25. Create Content on SlideShare
- 26. After posting a presentation, LH&A was featured on SlideShare’s Career frontpage: An endorsement from SlideShare
- 27. An underutilized resource Promote yourself with your resume and portfolio Add the SlideShare app to your LinkedIn page and get more usage from your content
- 28. Make it a Multimedia Presentation
- 29. How am I doing? Psst… Be a LinkedIn spy
- 30. Check Out Who’s Viewed Your Profile Find this on right side of your LinkedIn home page It’s only visible to you!
- 31. Click “See more” for your own mini survey
- 32. Networking & Social Media = Power to the People!
- 33. The Empowered Job Seeker 1 to 1 consultation to help candidates re-position themselves for a changing job market. For details, contact lynn@lhazan.com Includes work on resume, interviews, networking, LinkedIn, job searching and negotiating with Lynn Hazan, a 25-year veteran of the recruiting business.
- 34. Here’s to a year for connections! May the force be with you! Lynn Hazan [email_address] www.lhazan.com 312.863.5401
- 35. Thanks to: Michael Walters Advertising for hosting James Heckman, AMA MeetUp Chair