A new graduate has sent an inquiry about using LinkedIn in her job hunting - in the form of a letter to my young friend, the answer is here. Let's see how LinkedIn helps your job hunting.
Dear Emily,
Congratulations on your new degree! There are several ideas for using LinkedIn in your job hunting activities.
I do not think that aggressive outreach campaigns to encourage people from various companies (employment managers, personnel officials, other influencers) to explain job hunting activities are particularly satisfying. This is a type of touch people fear when trying to decide whether to join a network like LinkedIn. Unless there is a clear and attractive intersection between your background and talent and the company's specific needs, I regard this as a typically unwelcome contact.
(I am the only one.) However, I am a personnel officer far beyond the joke, focusing on job hunting.
Fortunately, there are many better ways to use LinkedIn for your job hunting. For beginners, there are four here:
1) Check out the LinkedIn job naturally. If you can see the work there, that means that you are leading to work. This is very sweet for new graduates. If you do not have a lot of connections, please connect to the parent. A friend, or someone who already knows someone who is in the business world.
2) I will use LinkedIn for your employment research project. You will concentrate on a specific company - because it will target you for job hunting and will transform Monster.com into an active job seeker / job seeker rather than a full-time troller. By identifying these companies, you can use LinkedIn to learn TON on those companies. People who worked there and searched for company name and worked there - what kind of background do they have? What kind of education is it? Which of these target companies do you think are most suitable for you with your own experience and interests?
If you are about to enter the company and you do not mind contacting people working there at the moment, please contact USED from the blue man (and who can blame him)! Enterprise alum is not compelled to recommend you for work and will probably speak very freely about the previous company. This is an indirect approach - LinkedIn is a great way to do that. (For example, because he or she is helping you, let's have a favor on that person - for example, create a logo for a teens' daughter's blog.)
3) Using LinkedIn, find a head hunter to talk to. Headhunters are often tied up, and like real estate agents, they rarely miss calls coming out of the blue. They may not be able to help you find a job - many new search graduates are not working in new graduate students, as new graduates are not job seekers that companies generally pay to searchers Even though. In 10 minutes by phone with Head Hunter, you learn to target several companies and thoroughly discard other people from your list and avoid enough trouble for hours to weeks can do.
4) Very Important - LinkedIn should be used to spread out the network of people you already know and be informed of job hunting outside the school.
In the absence of contact eligibility, it is awkward to call out to a stranger and say "Do you want to hire me?" But you should definitely use LinkedIn to keep in touch with people you already know - your parents friends, your friends' friends. Women who are babies for parents and brothers, high school students, someone who was detained in college days, VP of McKinsey sang with your mother for years in church choir. Please register them to support your job hunting.
What you are doing in LinkedIn in this case is to gather the existing network (though you may not think it is a network, but those you know) and make your professional status up-to-date is. The way to find them is as follows:
a) Do a LinkedIn search in a city where you grow and identify people you know. If you grew up in San Jose, New York, Chicago, hurt it and go to the right b)
b) Sit down with paper and pencil to list everyone in the business you know. A new graduate can list up to 100 such people - push yourself. Please think about what you can do right now, as a girl scout leader, a volunteer who instructed "Grease" in high school year, parents of the track team, and high school librarians who are corporate knowledge managers. If you have a list on the paper (you can actually do it in Word, cut the name and paste it in the LinkedIn search box), you can find these people on LinkedIn.
Some of the people on the list have not joined LinkedIn yet. In order to actually include them in the network you created, you have to find your email address so that you can invite they will join. The easiest way (calling) is on Google. Finding an email address in such a way is not a decent thing. From the list of your first 100 lovers and family supporters, you may become a decent network of 65 LinkedIn contacts. Probably more!
Lucky Emily! Do not be cowardly when negotiating multiple job information that you think you are juggling for a long time.
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