you can do that with linkedin?!?!

Matt LeBlanc

www.linkedin.com/in/mattleblanc

www.twitter.com/matthewjleblanc

You Can Do THAT With LinkedIn?!You Can Do THAT With LinkedIn?!You Can Do THAT With LinkedIn?!You Can Do THAT With LinkedIn?!(why yes, yes you can)(why yes, yes you can)(why yes, yes you can)(why yes, yes you can)

two truths about social media

the social media version of all of us the real life version of all of us

the basics

What is LinkedIn?

What is LinkedIn not?

know what linkedin is and isn’t

knowing what your profile is

Résumé LinkedIn profile

maximizing your profile

You can have the best LinkedIn profile

in the whole wide world but if

someone cannot contact you does it

really matter?

don’t advertise being unemployed

what does it take to be successful?

Evangelist

Ninja

Expert

Jedi

Guru

FUTURIST

Visionary

Thought Leader

you can show your resume off

connecting to slideshare

connecting to visualcv (or your own website)

you can show up in every search

relevant to your job-search in 3 steps

(almost)

….but before we get there

keywords, keywords, keywords

grow your recruiter network

connect with every recruiter locally (both corporate and 3rd party)

connect with every recruiter who works for companies on your target list

connect with every recruiter nationally who recruits people just like you

grow your relevant network

connect with everyone who does what you do / what you want to do

connect with everyone who manages the people who do what you do

connect with everyone who supports the people who do what you do

you can track your progress

staying on point

staying on point

you can get street cred on linkedin

linkedin answers

sharing relevant content

google alerts

subscriptions

easy sharing on linkedin

1/3 industry relevant info

1/3 articles / info

1/3 questions

linkedin sharing formula

you can find anyone you want to

civil

(MUST)

engineer

(MUST)

AND

civil AND engineer

civil

(MIGHT)

engineer

(MIGHT)

civil OR engineer

OR

NOT (-)

civil

(MUST)

engineer

(NOT)

civil NOT engineer

“ ” (exact match)

engineer

(NOT)

civil

(NOT)

“civil engineer”

engineer (MUST)

civil(MIGHT)

mechanical (MIGHT)

(…) forcing the order

engineer AND

(civil OR mechanical)

boolean

the kitchen sink approach

java -recruiter -manager -director -vp -vice (j2ee OR jee5 OR jee6) -java -recruiter -

manager -director -vp -vice

(jee5 OR jee6 OR j2ee OR Java) AND (hibernate OR struts

OR spring) -recruiter -manager -director -vp -vice

CURRENT JOB TITLE SEARCH: "sw" OR

"s/w" OR "swe" OR "swd" OR "sde" OR

"developer" OR "programmer" OR

"software engineer" OR "applications

engineer"

signal search

site:

– Limits results to certain keywords

within a specific site or domain

– There can be no space between

site: and the search phrase

site:dell.com AND (director OR vp)

site: operator

site:linkedin.com AND “current * sales" AND

(“Canon” OR “IKON” OR “pitney bowes” OR

“ricoh”) AND "greater atlanta area“ -director -

"sales manager" -"v.p." -"vp" -"vice president“ -

inurl:dir

site:linkedin.com AND "Microsoft Dynamics AX

Professionals [2000+]" AND "greater chicago

area"

x-ray searches

site:linkedin.com AND ("websites * my

resume" OR "websites * my profile") AND

"java" AND "greater seattle area" inurl:pub -

inurl:dir -inurl:jobs

site:linkedin.com AND ("@comcast.net" OR

"@gmail.com" OR "@yahoo.com" OR

"hotmail.com") AND "java" AND "j2ee" AND

"greater seattle area" inurl:pub -inurl:dir -

inurl:jobs

external profile & email addresses

you can find your connections anywhere

finding your linkedin connections elsewhere

one last nugget for you

LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattleblanc

Twitter @matthewjleblanc

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Recruiting Blog http://www.12recruiters.wordpress.com

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Quora http://www.quora.com/Matthew-LeBlanc

About.Me http://about.me/mattleblanc

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