{"id":430,"date":"2010-05-20T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T14:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salaryfor.com\/blog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2010-09-23T22:08:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T02:08:36","slug":"using-linkedin-in-your-job-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/using-linkedin-in-your-job-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Using LinkedIn in your job search"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recruiters\u00a0use\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a> to search for, find, and contact\u00a0potential candidates on a daily basis \u2013 in fact, there are over 1,000,000 sourcers, recruiters, and human resources professionals on Linkedin in the United States alone! While I typically write posts for sourcers and recruiters to show them how they can more effectively leverage social networking sites like LinkedIn to find candidates,\u00a0in this post, I am going to show job seekers how they can use the exact same techniques and strategies to find jobs, perform company research,\u00a0and how to\u00a0find and contact recruiters and hiring managers \u2013 even if you only have 5 connections!<\/p>\n

First we\u2019ll start with the basics. I\u2019m going to save the best for last. <\/span><\/p>\n

Job Search<\/h3>\n

Many people are unaware of all of the great features on LinkedIn for job seekers.<\/p>\n

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Once you click on \u201cJobs\u201d you can use the basic search interface, or click on the \u201cadvanced\u201d job search:<\/p>\n

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Once you get to the \u201cAdvanced Job Search\u201d you have many self explanatory and standard job search options.\u00a0\u00a0You can target specific companies, titles, industry, job function, location, etc.\u00a0One thing to notice is the \u201cPowered by SimplyHired\u201d \u2013 I\u2019ll get to that in a moment, it\u2019s important.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s say you\u2019re looking for a job as an accountant in NYC. When you enter your search criteria and hit \u201csearch\u201d you will be taken to LinkedIn\u2019s jobs. When I say \u201cLinkedIn\u2019s jobs,\u201d I mean the jobs that people\/companies have paid to post on LinkedIn. I bring this up because there are other job postings you can find through LinkedIn that are free to post as well as jobs that are posted to the Internet \u2013 not LinkedIn. First, let\u2019s look at what you can do with LinkedIn\u2019s jobs:<\/p>\n

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When you\u2019re looking at LinkedIn\u2019s jobs, you can see the people who posted the job if they happen to be in your network. If there isn\u2019t a name under the \u201cPosted By\u201d column, then you are not connected to the person who posted the job.<\/p>\n

If you click on the name of the person who posted the job, you\u2019ll see that you may have a number of options. You can see who in your network \u201cknows\u201d (or at least is connected to) the person who posted the job, you can request a referral from someone in your network who is connected to the job poster, you can check your connections within the company that\u2019s posted the job, and you can also request an introduction by people in your network who currently work at the company that posted the job. All great features and options!<\/p>\n

source: <\/em>booleanblackbelt<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

click here for more salary information<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recruiters\u00a0use\u00a0LinkedIn to search for, find, and contact\u00a0potential candidates on a daily basis \u2013 in fact, there are over 1,000,000 sourcers, recruiters, and human resources professionals on Linkedin in the United States alone! While I typically write posts for sourcers and recruiters to show them how they can more effectively leverage social networking sites like LinkedIn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[281,1275,1277,1269,1272,1281,1270,1279,371,688,1276,1189,1228,1271,1278,1280,1273,1182,1274,1282],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-search-advice","tag-accountant","tag-daily-basis","tag-hiring-managers","tag-human-resources-professionals","tag-industry-job","tag-job-options","tag-job-postings","tag-job-recruiters","tag-job-search","tag-job-seekers","tag-last-job","tag-linkedin","tag-looking-for-a-job","tag-search-interface","tag-search-options","tag-search-people","tag-simplyhired","tag-social-networking-sites","tag-specific-companies","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salaryfor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}