Episode 59: How To Get Started with LinkedIn For Your Job Search

Episode 59: How To Get Started with LinkedIn For Your Job Search

On Episode 59, find out how to get started with using LinkedIn: one of your BEST friends during the job search 

59. How To Get Started with LinkedIn For Your Job Search

One of the biggest mistakes that people make during their job search is NOT leveraging technology during their career exploration and job search through LinkedIn. LinkedIn lands thousands of people jobs on a daily basis, so why would you lose out on money and potential new opportunities by not using it?

What’s your relationship with LinkedIn? Love it? Hate it?

Regardless of how you feel about LinkedIn, you can’t afford to NOT use it during your job search. Period.

 

Y’all, the modern job search is broken. BROKEN. We no longer live in the old days where employers would advertise a job in a local newspaper, and candidates would CALL the hiring manager or MAIL in their application. In those days, employers received a manageable number of applications and the hiring manager ACTUALLY READ all of the apps!

In today’s world? We have the internet, and companies post their jobs EVERYWHERE, meaning that ANYONE IN THE WORLD can submit an application online. This results in one job posting receiving hundreds of applications and most of them never get read (sad but true).

How do you stick out? How can you make it to the top of the pile? 2 big strategies:

1) Networking: connecting with people who can HELP you, refer you, talk to you, open doors for you

2) Optimizing your LinkedIn: when you optimize your LinkedIn, you attract hidden opportunities and recruiters come to you with opportunities

On this episode, I tackle #1 and how to do this via LinkedIn (the easiest way to manage and engage with your network). I’ll teach you how to get started with LinkedIn, the 8 steps you need to take to get to a “basic” level, how to start building your network and begin to connect with relevant alumni.

Episode 59: How To Get Started with LinkedIn For Your Job Search

Episode 58: How The Career Triad Impacts Your Job Search Effort & Timeline

On Episode 58, learn about the Career Triad: Function, Industry and Geography, and how it impacts your job search!

58. How The Career Triad Impacts Your Job Search Effort & Timeline

When you start to do more targeted career exploration, it’s time to introduce the CAREER TRIAD: Industry, Function & Geography.  The Career Triad is an invaluable tool that will help you get clear on the type of industry, function & geography that is important to you in your next career move.

On this solo episode, Priscilla explains how the Career Triad can help you do targeted research & career exploration while also helping you make a decision on the type of career transition you’re going to make!

What you’ll learn from this episode:

  • How to research and decide on the kind of industry that you want to work in – it’s a BIG decision that sets the whole vibe for your day to day job

  • The difference between a Functional Department (Ex: Marketing) versus Functional Roles

  • The role that geography plays in your job search opportunities and networking

  • How to factor in your timeline and level of effort that you want to apply into your job search – what it means for the type of career change you want to make!

Episode 57: What It’s Like To Get a Ph.D. and Become a Business Professor, with Sekou Bermiss

Episode 57: What It’s Like To Get a Ph.D. and Become a Business Professor, with Sekou Bermiss

On Episode 57, hear from a Human Capital expert about the Great Resignation and the impact of remote work on BIPOC folks!

On this episode, Sekou Bermiss, Ph.D., opens up about his early career pivot when he decided to leave the traditional business path in consulting to pursue a long journey to become a business professor!

What you’ll learn from this episode:

  • What it’s like to go through a Ph.D program and the challenge of achieving tenure

  • Why Sekou decided to get his Ph.D. – and how he came to that decision

  • The ups and downs of being an academic and professor

  • The Great Resignation, how it might end, and the impact of remote work on BIPOC folks

    Ready to make a career change?

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Episode 56: How To Figure Out Your Next Career Move, Pt. 3 (Career Portfolio & Prototypes)

Episode 56: How To Figure Out Your Next Career Move, Pt. 3 (Career Portfolio & Prototypes)

On Episode 56, find out why it’s SO important that you create our Career Portfolio (inventory of your skills, strengths and greatest hits) before your job search!

56. How To Figure Out Your Next Career Move, Pt. 3: (Prototypes & Career Portfolio)

Welcome back to the Career Exploration Series that began on Episode 46, 49 and 52! On this episode, Priscilla dives into 2 critical topics: 1) Building your career portfolio, and 2) Protoyping – AKA running career experiments before committing to a path.  Your career portfolio takes stock of your strengths, transferable skills and “Greatest Hits”.

On this solo episode, Priscilla shares 2 strategies that you need to do as you begin to narrow in on your career exploration: the Career Portfolio and Protoyping.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

  • Why you can’t approach your career exploration as if you were on “Married at First Sight” TV Show and should absolutely first date and get to know your career options (via Prototypes)

  • How to conduct a thorough review of your top skills, strengths and “Greatest Hits” so that you can build your Career Portfolio 

  • The types of Career Experiments that you can run depending on your runway (how long you have in terms of time / your resources before your next career move)

  • Ready to make a career change?

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Episode 55: Why I Left a 16-Year Education Career to Break Into Tech, with Bonnie Dilber

Episode 55: Why I Left a 16-Year Education Career to Break Into Tech, with Bonnie Dilber

On Episode 55, you’ll get some actionable tips on how to break into the tech industry from a different industry!

55. Why I Left My 16-Year Career in Education To Break Into Tech, with Bonnie Dilber

Think that it’s too late for you to transition into a brand new industry? Think again. Today, we hear from Zapier recruiter Bonnie Dilber as she shares her story of how she transitioned into tech after spending 16 years in the education nonprofit world.

On this episode, Bonnie Dilber shares how you can break into tech from a completely different background, especially after many years of working in an “unrelated” field.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

  • Why Bonnie decided to leave the education/nonprofit sector after 16 years

  • How the pandemic and becoming a mom shifted Bonnie’s priorities, and how it showed up in her job search criteria

  • The steps that Bonnie took to connect and network with people on LinkedIn that could help her accelerate the job search process 

  • Concrete tips for how to approach your own job search if you’re trying to transition into tech 

    Ready to make a career change?

I got you! Download our 20-page FREE guide to get career clarity on where you want to go next.

Full Episode Transcript:

 

Outro:

Hey, are you thinking about changing careers? Then you need to head over to my website, ecmpodcast.com, and sign up to get your free 20 page guide that I wrote with YOU in mind. I wrote this guide to help you change careers and get really clear on what it is that you want to do next. Career clarity is key to a career transition journey. All right, can’t wait to hear what you think about it. Have a great week.