Can LinkedIn get you a job?
By: Sandhya Gupta
Tags: Networking, Recruiting, Jobs, Placement, LinkedIn

A big YES!!

LinkedIn is like a gold mine for those searching for job opportunities. According to the Jobvite survey, social media is used by 92% professionals in their work today and LinkedIn is the favourite place of 87% recuriters for searching candidates. It provides an overview of the candidate’s experience, education and other activities.

How to search jobs on LinkedIn ?

There are many ways to search for jobs on LinkedIn. Personally I have got best results from below methods —

Use Hashtags (#)

You can search using with relevant hashtags on the search bar. And apply the filter “content”, you will get all posts with your hashtag.

Example — If you want to search for Android Developer role, you can use #AndroidDeveloper, #recruitment, #job, #developer, etc. for your search. This will give you different posts and people who have written the post. You can apply and if required have conversation with recruiter as well.

Connect with recruiters

You have got to connect with recruiters/hiring managers of your desired company. You can ask them if there is any vacancy/job opening they can consider you for. This is a great way to know about the company and job openings both.

Job ID and Referral

You can visit the company page to get any job openings and if you get one, you can ask for referral on LinkedIn. Remember whenever you ask for referral, go with your job id for which you need referral.

Connect with college alumni

Your college alumni can help you in a lot of ways. If they are in a good company you can ask for referral or other connections who can help you get one. Your 1st degree networks are always going to work in one way or the other so keep networking !

How to optimize your LinkedIn profile ?

You can hunt for job on LinkedIn only if you have an appealing and expressive profile. Here are a few tips to optimize the profile that will definitely help you get more job opportunities.

Profile picture

Profile picture is one of the most important things on LinkedIn. It increases your profile views chances by 11X. The picture needs to be professional. Gresham say LinkedIn prefers complete profile for searches much more than incomplete profile.

Be active and make quality connections

You need to be active on LinkedIn. Surf the feed at least once a day to know what is going on. Also, Quality connections are very important, for that you have to know people and then send them connection request.

Experiences and achievements

It’s important to add your previous experiences and whatever achievements you have had. This gives recruiters an insight of your work and increases your chances of being selected.

Resume

If you are applying to any job, always edit your resume according to job description. This is the biggest mistake that people do. Recruiters spend 10–20 seconds on each resume. If you can highlight yourself within that time through your resume, then only you’ll be selected !

Conclusion

LinkedIn can be used by job seekers to get a job, recruiters to get employees and businesses to get leads. It’s the budding social media with 700 million users. Recruiters, CEOs, hiring managers, company pages all are present at the same platform. If used properly, it can help anyone to get their desired results !