The Job Search Solution
Using LinkedIn for Your Stealth Job Search Part II
Wayne Breitbarth Interview with Wayne Breitbarth: Wayne and Tony continue discussing some stealthy ways of using LinkedIn to look for a job when you want to keep your job search confidential. For more see Wayne's Article Step-by-Step Guide to Using LinkedIn for Your Stealth Job Search.
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Secondly, my website, I mean, LinkedIn is great too. You'll find me on LinkedIn and send me a connection request and I'd be honored to have you join my network and we just start a conversation. Lots of ways to find Wayne and he's well worth the investment of the time, effort and money. Should you hire him to help you look for a job? Because some of the stuff we see on LinkedIn is just beyond the pale of valuable. We end up, I found myself yesterday helping a grown out with this LinkedIn profile. It's really not my job. I did it because I want to help him find a job and I had a client that would be interested in, but the LinkedIn profile was just terrible. Get advice, pay Wayne, ask him, what do you think of my profile? How was your rewrite it? How was your change? It's worth it because you'll never know how many people will pass you up because of a poor LinkedIn profile. The investment is worth every penny of it. Back to the stealth way of looking for a job. We didn't cover much Wayne, but what we did cover is very important. A couple of other quick ideas that we can get in for us to wrap up. In the new feature on LinkedIn where if you go to a company page, you've always been able to hit the follow button and you should. If it's a company you would like to work for, but then something you just popped in about a year and a half ago were most companies that have paid LinkedIn recruit packages, these are companies. Now, they can now put a little box on their about page where you can push a button that says you're interested to work this. And the recruiters at that company get notified that you did push that button. So really, and that doesn't show up on your profile saying that you pushed these buttons. If you hit follow, that could show up down in the bottom of your profile, but not that I'm interested button. So be sure to check out the "I'm interested" button if it isn't there because it could cause recruiters to check out your profile. I had a guy who did this very thing. I asked him if he had companies that he wanted to work for. And he said, "Of course." And I said, "What company on your list? Like 20?" I said, "Cool." I said, "Go in there for every company that has the "I'm interested" button. Hit that button. And not all the companies did pay enough for LinkedIn to get that button on the page, but he did tell me either for the back that six of those, somebody from that six of those companies, some person views his profile within the next week after he pushed the button. So, you know, he didn't get any phone calls right out of that. Those six, but he got, he did get recruiters to take a look. And that's really what it's about, right? If you get a recruiter to take a look, you got the right stuff, you're going to get a call. You know, the right stuff, they don't know that till they look, right? Right. Right. And they don't know, but at least you're open to it and you're getting eyeballs, which is what's most important. It's a numbers game when it comes to that. For sure. One other thing, yeah, another thing that really is good to do is to make sure that your titles that you're using in your experience are market value titles. And this is really interesting because LinkedIn has a list of thousands of titles that it calls market value titles. And those are the titles that come show up when you see you're in the title box. You start typing it up to human resources. It'll show you sheets of human resources, human resources manager, human resource specialist. Those titles that drop down are the ones that the recruiters are also going to be using so that there's perfect matches. So as much as you think I got director of HR, that may not be a market value title or director of human resource gives me to yourself that's the same thing which wrong. I didn't do it wrong, but yeah, you did wrong because the drop down says human resources. So market value titles are critical when there's a box that says title and that means that's in your experience section. You just won't come up as high in the searches as you think you should because LinkedIn just says, define those drop downs as just that and you need them to match. Now, let's say you had a crazy title like director of whatever something cute, something cute. What you'd want to do is you'd want to grab the market value title, put that in the title box, and then in the description for that job you'd say, my company, I was referred to this, this, this. Yes, so to your cute title in the description box, not in the title. Yes, yeah, so many people put on their resume the title that their company gives them and chief happy officer, just the dumb stuff that nobody in the whole world would ever find or read or care about or think that's stupid. And when it doesn't apply to other things, so be really careful of that. I had a guy tell me not too long ago. Well, that was my title and I said, I don't care if it was your title. Nobody else is going to recognize what it is and change it. Well, some companies, everybody's vice president, it doesn't describe what you did. You got to resumes and LinkedIn profiles, they get scanned, they don't get read, they don't get looked at, they get scanned and if people don't see something they like quickly, poof, they're on to the next one. They're looking at 40, 50, 60, 100 of them at a time. And we got one of our recruiters here was a remark and the other day that he ran a LinkedIn ad for a particular operations type person, he got 122 resumes. So you think he's sitting there reading 120 resumes, you're crazy. He isn't reading them. He's scanning them. And if you didn't see what he doesn't like, he's on to the next one. Wayne, you always make us think in the time goes by so fast and we really appreciate it. Thank you all for listening, Chrissy, and I love you. Let's all pray for a world peace, pray for the unborn, forgive and ask forgiveness, stay humble, take a moment to stay to be grateful, pray for those that are needing work, pray for our society. Join us again for the JobSearch solution.