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 

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.