Many job seekers have heard that 80% of potential employers will look you up on LinkedIn. You might have a LinkedIn profile. And now you’re asking, “What do I do now”.
A Webinar with Joshua Waldman & JT O’Donnell helps job seekers create a strategy to get noticed by employers on LinkedIn.
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About Joshua Waldman
Joshua has worked with both businesses and individuals on a variety of Internet marketing and branding issues. He has helped them develop strategic marketing plans, scripts and powerful profiles that get them noticed. He began teaching social media to job seekers in 2006 when he realized that the internet marketing skills he had acquired from running his own business and career are directly transferable to the job search.
Joshua’s company, Career Enlightenment, specializes in helping MBAs who are frustrated with the job search to learn new ways of applying their business savvy through exciting social media tools they didn’t learn in school. With Career Enlightenment the job seeker will learn a 5-step process for identifying, repairing, and growing your online reputation so that you get unsolicited calls from hiring managers.
A frequent ” Resume Writing Tip ” for jobseekers is to judiciously incorporate in their resumes, keywords relevant to their knowledge / skills.
No justification required for this.
But how can jobseekers get the HR Managers to ” notice ” those keywords as soon as they open the resume ? Each resume will likely get no more than 5 seconds to make a first good impression.
Of course, if HR Managers are using ” Resume Rater ” recruitment software to ‘ rate ‘ all incoming resumes then there is no problem.
Not only will keywords get highlighted automatically, but even the resumes will get ranked in the descending order of ” relevance “, with the best resumes topping the list !
I would not be surprised if many jobseekers are themselves rating their own resumes before sending to recruiters !
After all , ” Resume Rater ” can be freely downloaded from nearly all websites listed on first page of Google search results.
Regards
hemen parekh
Hemen,
Fewer employers use resume filtering software than you think. If you look at the actual statistics.
Many hiring managers are using LinkedIn to find candidates. Which means they will use a keyword, and look at the first 2-3 pages of LinkedIn’s results. According to CareerBuilder.com, this happens about 70-80% of the time.
Having a good keyword strategy for your online profile is not magic, it’s just good common sense.
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