how to source profiles using linkedin
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Social Networking in Recruitment
Social networking sites have a key role to play in recruitmentSocial networking sites have a key role to play in recruitment
industry. They are well regarded as effective recruitment tools
for they have changed the way recruitment takes place.
Linkedin is one such site which has made the lives of recruiters
easier.
Linkedin is a professional networking site that connects
What is Linkedin?
Linkedin is a professional networking site that connects
professionals from around the world, representing 170 industries
and 200 countries, and where they can find, be introduced to, and
collaborate with other qualified professionals that they need to
work with to accomplish their professional goals.
According to Linkedin,
•When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your
professional expertise and accomplishments
How does Linkedin work?
professional expertise and accomplishments
• You can then form enduring connections by inviting trusted
contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you
• Your network consists of your connections, your connections’
connections, and the people they know, linking you to a vast
number of qualified professionals and experts
Through your network you can:
•Manage the information that’s publicly available about you as
professional
How does LinkedIn work?
professional
•Find and be introduced to potential clients, service providers,
and subject experts who come recommended
•Create and collaborate on projects, gather data, share files and
solve problems
•Be found for business opportunities and find potential partners
•Gain new insights from discussions with likeminded professionals
in private group settings
How does LinkedIn work?
in private group settings
•Discover inside connections that can help you land jobs and close
deals
•Post and distribute job listings to find the best talent for your
company
How do you get started?
•Creating a good Profile•Creating a good Profile
•Building Contacts
•Getting Recommended
How do you get started?
Creating a good Profile
•Make sure that you include who you are and what you do, your•Make sure that you include who you are and what you do, your
education background and professional experience in your Linkedin
profile
•Update the kind of position that you work as and the type of companies
that you represent
•Share your contact details including your mail id and contact number so
that people can easily approach you
How do you get started?
Building Contacts
•Import your address book from your internet mail accounts or your•Import your address book from your internet mail accounts or your
outlook ,find who all are there and invite them
•If you have a database of candidates or clients with their mail ids, make
sure that you upload it on your Linkedin account to add them as your
Linkedin connections
•Keep adding every candidate, whom you get to know constantly on
Linkedin. This will help you in continuous increase of your connections
How do you get started?
Getting Recommended
•Once your profile is ready and contacts lists have started building up,
you need to make sure that your peers at work, your candidates and your
clients recommend you
•Linkedin also provides a link to ask them for recommendations.
•Don’t forget or be reluctant to use the feature.
How to source the Profiles?
Having done the necessary groundwork, you are now all set
to utilize Linkedin to its maximum potential. So, let us move
onto the guidelines for using the free tools available on
Linkedin to source profilesLinkedin to source profiles
•Keep updating
•Search for Linkedin groups
•Questions and Answers
•Searching People
How to source the Profiles?
Keep updating
•Keep updating your status with the hottest requirement that
you have. This allows people in your network to know the
requirements that you have at present
•You never know that the right candidate might be someone
you already know or someone who is in your network
How to source the Profiles?
Search for Linkedin groups
•Search for groups which are relevant to what and whom you•Search for groups which are relevant to what and whom you
are looking for
•Identify them by company name, industry etc.
•There are two important things that you can do with these
groups
How to source the Profiles?
•You can post jobs in these groups and directly mail to each
of the group membersof the group members
•Do not choose groups by size, but by your needs at present
•Make sure that you remove groups or leave groups which
are not of your use, since Linkedin limits you to only 50
communities
How to source the Profiles?
Question and Answers
•Keep asking questions to all your connections•Keep asking questions to all your connections
•It is a good practice as the questions are widely read by their
connections
•You can ask questions anytime
How to source the Profiles?
•You can ask questions like:
a ) “I am looking for a Java developer from Internet domain,a ) “I am looking for a Java developer from Internet domain,
can you refer me anyone?”
b ) “I am hiring Java developers, can you help me in finding
one?”
c) “Can you suggest me companies where I can get java
developers from banking domain?”
•You can certainly get a good candidate or a matching profile
from the responses you get for these questions
How to source the Profiles?
Searching People
•Focus on simple keywords like company name or
designation or say, Java if you are looking for Java developerdesignation or say, Java if you are looking for Java developer
•The result might be wide but are useful. To filter the results,
you can use location criteria
•Once you know that you have found the right profile, you
can directly connect with the person if he/she is in your first
level of connections
How to source the Profiles?
•For those profiles in the second and third level the best
thing that you can do is to get the contact details from your
first level connectionsfirst level connections
•When all of these do not work, look for what groups is the
person, you want to contact, member of.
•You can also mail him if you belong to the same community
How to source the Profiles?
•Another effective way to do this is to search their names on
job portals using previous companies name as combination
•By doing so, you might get his email id or contact number•By doing so, you might get his email id or contact number
and bring them in
•If you still don’t find a way to reach the person, better call
his company board line and ask to connect
•Using all of these features regularly pays you in dividends
by generating lots of passive candidates.
The Outlook
•With my experience in using Linkedin, I have found that
most of the profiles which I usually get are unique, passive
and are definitely the perfect fit for me
•I was even approached by some people, who incidentally
saw my Linkedin profile and who needed my services to get
them the right job.
•There are many talented recruiters out there, but it’s a
matter of your importance and credibility that people start
knowing you as a right person to approach, when they hunt
jobs.
A word of advice
•Maintain strict formal relationships
•Use words carefully and judiciously
•Make people feel that their privacies are duly respected
All of these would make your networking effects last long.
Thank You!
I hope that you find the knowledge, that I shared, useful. Iam sure that there might be many more ways to useLinkedin as well. But I leave that for you to find them.
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