Check who viewed your profile and search appearances to spot companies interested in you. Search your own job title to see if you rank on page one, then copy headline language from profiles that do. Find recruiters by title in your area and message first and second connections about opportunities.
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I'd like to share with you 3 quick tips for your use of LinkedIn to get more out of LinkedIn. And the first is this: check who's looked at you. You can look at who's viewed your profile and search appearances. If you go to your profile on the dashboard, it will give you that information, and that's useful. You can't get detailed information about everyone who searched for you. But it will give you a snapshot. It will give you more detail if you're on premium, but even on the basic LinkedIn, the free LinkedIn, it gives you a lot of useful information, particularly the companies that people worked for who searched for you and the key terms that they used to find you. This is very useful and helps you to know which recruiters or which companies are looking at you. So, that's the first tip. The second is this. Pretend you're a recruiter and enter your description. So, say you're an IT manager. In finance. Search for IT manager finance in your area and see who comes up top of the list. You should appear on the first page. If you don't, that's a little bit worrying. You need to improve your profile and your searchability. So, see what other people have put, see what terms they've used, and if you find an IT manager and they've said, I'm expert in agile techniques, and you've used agile techniques but you haven't put it in your profile yet, then copy that idea, put it in if it's true. So, very often you can learn from other people with a similar profile to you who've described themselves better, used better search terms, and you can incorporate some of those into your profile. And the third tip is this: what is the title of the person who's most likely to recruit you? If you're a sales professional, it might be Sales Director or Head of Sales. If you're in marketing, it might be Chief Marketing Officer or something like that. So, you enter the job title of the person who's likely to recruit you, and you put in your area, and you search for people, and you get a whole list of people with that job title. Some of them may be first-level connections, some of them may be second-level connections. If they're second-level connections, you can ask to connect with them, and you can say, I'm interested in opportunities in your company, can we connect, please? And some of them will reply, and then you can enter into a dialogue. And you can approach them directly. So those are 3 tips. Look at who's been looking at you. Look at people who've got a similar profile to you, and look at people who might be likely to recruit you because of their job title and position. And if you use those, that will move you along in LinkedIn. You should be active on LinkedIn. You should be working on it all the time, and here are 3 tips to help you. I hope you find them useful.
