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LinkedIn Mistakes When Looking for a Job Part II
Terry Sullivan Interview with Terry Sullivan: Terry and Tony continue discussing some blatant mistakes people make on LinkedIn when looking for a job.
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I have a lot of content on my blog linked in my website that goes into a lot more depth and a lot of the topics that Tony covers here on his program. Thank you, Tony. Terry has always needed to find and believe me, it's worth the time and the money to invest in Terry to look at your LinkedIn profile and give you some tips on it because it's the kind of thing that you think it's great. Ten employers don't. They pass up interviewing you and then you get a hold of Terry and find out, "Oh, my goodness. I was doing this wrong." I interviewed a candidate yesterday and he's a good candidate and looked at his LinkedIn profile. It was so bad. I told him he needed to go a little Terry. I wasn't even giving him any tips and I gave him Terry's phone number and it's just, and he didn't even realize I gave him two or three things that were awful about it and he didn't even realize it. Well, people were passing him up because of this. He did not realize it. There was no way of him knowing and he didn't deal with it every day. Believe me, it's worth to get a review. It's worth it to get a review from Terry about what to do and how to do it because the first thing everybody does, and I do it too, when I get through looking at your resume, I look at your LinkedIn profile because I want to know how are you going to appear to a particular employer. A lot of employers don't even look at resumes anymore. They just look at your LinkedIn profile and they make a decision of whether or not they're going to interview you based on the LinkedIn profile, not anything to do with the resume anymore. Most of them will want the resume on into the interviewing process, but come on. Please get with it and don't fool around with the thing. Just because you think it's good doesn't mean that it is. You look at it once a year at the most and don't know how to compare them. Please, Terry is worth every penny of the investment to have him look at it because it can make or break you getting an interview. I don't have a problem. I don't really have a problem if a candidate goes to bat and strikes out. If you're a candidate looking for a job, your job is to get at bats. You want to get as many at bats as you can because if you get enough at bats, you're going to eventually find a job. But if you don't get the at bats, you don't really try to get the at bats at all and you lose getting the at bats, then that's a shame. You actually don't get the at bats because of your LinkedIn profile or your resume or just not trying hard enough. That's not good. I'll get off of my soapbox and get back to interviewing Terry. Terry, here's my last question. I've been dying to ask you this, that green open to work, it's called a photo frame around their profile photo. Let's recruiters know they're looking for a job. Do you think that's a good thing for candidates or a bad thing? Does it help the recruiter or does it make the candidate look desperate? No, it's good for a recruiter, but if you've got a job, I sure as heck wouldn't put it on there. We've had more than one candidate get fired because they had that on there and they think that just because they got that on there, only recruiters look at it. Well, it may have never dawned on somebody that their internal, their corporate internal recruiters look at it. And if your corporate internal as LinkedIn recruiter, they're going to see that swoosh on there and they're going to know that you're looking for a job. Now, if you're out of work, you're out of work, that's fine. I do in some cases with some particular jobs, it does make a difference. I do know that the candidate is more active. I don't have to, there's a big difference between a passive candidate and an active candidate, psychologically, philosophically, emotionally, a candidate that is actively looking for a job is a lot more prone to someone's health better. They're a lot more active in looking for a job and they've got a lot more going for them as far as a job search goes. So if you're out of work, that's definitely a good idea. If you're not out of work, but looking for a job, I wouldn't use it just because it's not worth running at risk. Well, some recruiters will say, "Well, take that off of there because it makes you look desperate." It's almost like they wanted to try to pretend like they're still employed. And I think they're going to find out that you're looking eventually. I don't think it makes any difference. It used to be years ago, up until four or five years ago, I'd hear, for 50 years, I'd hear employers say, "Send me a candidate who's pressing employee because it makes a big difference. It doesn't make a difference. Nobody cares anymore." If they've got a need, and they need to fill that need, and they need to hire somebody, and they need to hire somebody, they don't really care if you're from Mars, or whether you're an employer, or whether you're not employed. Nobody cares. They just want to fill that need, and they'll interview you. It's not that big a deal. People write our personal silly stuff about that. Nobody cares. They care about your performance, your track, your ability to do what they want done. Carrie, you always make us think, and we really appreciate it. Thank you all for listening, Chrissy. Honey, I love you. Let's all pray for real, please. Pray for the unborn. For giving us forgiveness. Stay humble. Take a moment today to be grateful. Pray for those who are needing work. Pray for our society. Join us again for the JobSearch solution. This podcast was sponsored by thejobsearchsolution.com. It's the world's most successful online job search program. 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