We asked Chris Sanford, job search specialist in Oak Brook, Illinois about Linkedin profiles. Whether you are a seasoned veteran or a new graduate you need a professional LinkedIn profile to showcase your skills, abilities and professional history. Users of Facebook for their personal lives should have a Linkedin profile for their work life.
The ever-evolving social media world can be tough to keep up with, particularly when it comes to job hunting, networking and work relationships. There are numerous online platforms with countless tools and applications designed to connect individuals
with job opportunities. In this digital age, recruiter and employers seek out any and all information that they can find about a potential candidate via internet searches and social media sites. You need to be in control of what they are going to find because LinkedIn profiles typically rank high in Google searches. This is exactly why a professionally developed LinkedIn profile is a critical part of not only your job search but also your online reputation management.
A professional LinkedIn profile developer has the ability to utilize your personal and professional data to make your profile more visible to potential employers. They know how to manipulate the program to take your profile from average to All Star. When this happens you will attract more recruiters and HR professionals to your profile. However if your profile is messy, incomplete, has grammatical errors or is just non existent what will that say to them? Make no mistake we have entered the time when recruiters can and will ask you for access to your profile. When it was built by a professional you can feel comfortable and proud with sharing this information.
What you may not realize is that LinkedIn also doubles up as an intelligent jobs board. Professional recruiters and companies pay to access LinkedIn Recruiter, a back-end service which allows those who use it to search precisely for the candidates they require.
Once a professional has developed your profile then you can begin to utilize the site an all of its options including strategic job searches and networking abilities. LinkedIn is a great way to organize and manage professional relationships. Contacts you make during the job hunt and throughout your career can be potential gold mines for information regarding open positions.
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