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LinkedIn:15 Must Haves for the Job Seeker

A How To Guide

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LinkedIn Job Seeker

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LinkedIn Settings

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LinkedIn Settings

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Add a Profile Picture

Do Not Use The LinkedIn Default setting for your profile picture!

 

LinkedIn: (1) Profile Picture

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LinkedIn Complete Profile/w Picture

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Show Your “UVP” Unique Value Position

Area to differentiate yourself,Your Headline Show your “UVP” Unique Value Position how you solve problemsA headline reinforces your professional position.

 

LinkedIn: (2) Profile Headline

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Marketing 3 Headline w/Keywords Your Headline should include your Unique Value Proposition !

1A. Public Relations1B. B2B Sales

1C. Marketing Manager

2A. Resourceful Public Relations Expert2B. Bilingual B2B Sales Professional2C. Successful Marketing Manager of Products/Brands

3A. I use every tool in the public relations toolbox to make our clients the heroes in their own stories

3B. Experienced Bilingual B2B Sales Professional Helping French and American Companies expand their International Presence

3C. Internet Marketing Expert | Looking For New Business Partnerships That Need Help With Marketing... Lets Connect!

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Personalize your URL

Personalize your profile URL for Google SEO

 

LinkedIn: 4 Your Profile URL

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bruce-bixler/16/171/493

http/www.linkedin.com/in/brucebixler49

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LinkedIn: (5) Keywords

People search for you by keywords

On LinkedIn, to make sure your profile shows up you must strategically place keywords in your profile.

To get to the top of search results do a search, check other profiles for placement and frequency of keywords.

It is important to know that when recruiters are searching for prospects, only people in their network (1st, 2nd and 3rd level connections as well as members of the same group) will show up in their results. If you have a small network, you will have limited results. The same applies to anyone searching for the product or services that you offer. If you are not a part of their network, you will not show up. Adding new connections is an important part of an effective LinkedIn marketing campaign.

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LinkedIn Keywords

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Did you know about Keywords• Where keywords are located

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LinkedIn: Complete Profile

First job position   20%Confirm first job position   5%

Describe your current position   5% Industry and postal code   5%

Second job position   20%Add 5 Skills   5%

Add your education   25%Add a picture   5%

Add at least 50 connections   10%

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How recruiter searches by GoogleHow recruiters search on Google for LinkedIn Profiles using keywords

Incomplete profiles on LinkedIn are ____ (Times) less likely to be viewed

Profiles without pictures are ____ (Times) less Likely to be viewed

Twenty five per cent of searches on LinkedIn are done by __% of the population

Keyword search with 100 connections will result in your profile showing up in 2 -3 % of keyword searches

Keyword search with 500 connections will result in your profile showing up in 85 -90 % of keyword searches

site:linkedin.com (inurl:pub OR inurl:in) -intitle:directory “current * Process Engineer” “location * Minneapolis”

site:LinkedIn.com/in OR site:LinkedIn.com/pub "current * Mktg MGR" –inurl:dir

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LinkedIn: 6 Current Job Titles

Current position IF you are “In Transition”

• Marketing Manager at Marketing Resource• Marketing Mgr & Group Owner at (Group Name)• Marketing Manager at Self Employed• Marketing Manager at Entrepreneur• Marketing Manager at Marketing Consulting• Marketing Manager at Independent Contractor• Marketing Manager at Additional Marketing resource• Marketing Mgr &Volunteer at Red Cross• Marketing Mgr & Networking Facilitator at Harper College• Marketing Mgr & Group Facilitator at Job Search Circle• Marketing Mgr & Accountability Group Manager at St. Hubert’s

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LinkedIn: (7) Two Past Position

• Add at least two past positions

– You can have two different positions at one company

– Two companies and different titles

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LinkedIn: (9) Two Past Position job descriptions

• Step 1) go to job listing and copy job requirements and responsibilities

• Step 2) paste that copy onto a Word document and edit

• Step 3) copy finished listing onto your LinkedIn profile position

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LinkedIn: 2 Past positions

Job Listing • Hands on development of online, email, and text-

based marketing strategies and campaigns to achieve planned organic growth, client retention, and cross sales goals.

• Working with the line of business managers, evolve the overall content of firstmidwest.com to ensure that it is dynamic, constantly updated, and consistent with other communications.

• Create and execute a strategic plan to expand the Bank's email marketing capabilities and effectiveness.

• Help define social media strategy to meet the bank's objectives. Execute on that strategy over time.

• Optimize page design using A-B testing.• Plan for internal advertising rotation to ensure

optimization of ad space within our site.• Assist in the development of online advertising to

promote brand and product/service awareness and drive traffic to our website.

• Provide guidance to agency recommendations on search engine marketing.

• Serves as a thought leader for the bank in the online marketing space by researching and analyzing relevant market trends and makes recommendations to executive management.

Your Profile• Led development of online, email, and text-based

marketing strategies and campaigns to achieve planned organic growth, client retention, and cross sales goals.

• Working with the line of business managers, evolve the overall content of firstmidwest.com to ensure that it is dynamic, constantly updated, and consistent with other communications.

• Created and executed a strategic plan to expand the company’s email marketing capabilities and effectiveness.

• Helped define social media strategy to meet the company’s objectives. Execute on that strategy over time.

• Optimized page design using A-B testing.• Planed for internal advertising rotation to ensure

optimization of ad space within our site.• Assisted in the development of online advertising to

promote brand and product/service awareness and drive traffic to our website.

• Provided guidance to agency recommendations on search engine marketing.

• Served as a thought leader for the company in the online marketing space by researching and analyzing relevant market trends and makes recommendations to executive management

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(8) Social Proof

©Bruce Bixler [email protected]

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Social Proof

©Bruce Bixler [email protected]

• Give and get recommendations• Optimum 5 -10 recommendations

• Give and get endorsements• The larger your network the more

endorsements you will have

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LinkedIn: (10) Summary KEYWORDS

• Add descriptions to your LinkedIn Profile Summary Section

– Summary should start with your email address at top

– Summary paragraph one should be about what you do your job use keywords

– Summary paragraph two should show how you have added value to a previous employer tell a story (SAR) Keywords

– Summary paragraph three how you will solve a companies problems use a story (SAR) Keywords

• Add keywords to your LinkedIn Summary Section

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LinkedIn: (11) Optimizations

• You If your profile is the same as your resume you are being redundant!!!

• Your profile has to have different and additional information than your resume

• This will give you two opportunities to give an employer information about yourself, don’t waste that second opportunity.

• You need a “UVP” (unique value position) to be different and better than your peers or others

• You must have a call to action on your profile! Call or contact me now to see how your company

can benefit from my experience.

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LinkedIn: (12) Skills add KEYWORDS

• Add Keywords to your LinkedIn Profile Skills section

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Just LinkedIn: (13) Join Groups

• Choose 45 groups where your target people or companies are

Your Specialty – 10 to 15 groups

HR – 10 to 15 Group

Local Groups – 10 to 15 groupsAlumni groups

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Did you Join 45 Groups?

• Join groups to connect with others in your industry

• Join groups to send messages

• Join groups to follow (stalk) others who will not connect

• Join groups to SEARCH MEMBERS!

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Just LinkedIn: (15) Company Follow

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LinkedIn: Company Follow

1. Check company page “more insights”

2. Now view the most common skills at Baxter Healthcare.

2. Make sure to add those skills to your LinkedIn profile if they fit you.

3. Next, view the most recommended people at Baxter.

4. Review their recommendations of others as well as why people recommend them

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THANK YOUContact Information

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/brucebixler49

@BruceBixler49

Bruce Bixler