Shelley Bond! Alright, many people are posting on LinkedIn
they are looking for jobs as well as updating their LinkedIn profile to say
looking for opportunities thoughts on that I do never do that ever ever never
ever no circumstance could you ever give me or lay out for me that I would tell
you to put seeking new opportunity looking for new opportunities open to
this open to that none of it don't put those words anywhere nowhere
visible on your LinkedIn profile ever why so first thing is if you're putting
that where a lot of people put it is in the headline or in their title up at the
top or in their descriptor or in their summary what happens nobody and I mean
nobody goes to LinkedIn and searches for keywords that say seeking new
opportunities they don't they don't search like that recruiters HR people
other professionals hiring officials if they're looking on LinkedIn they're
looking for a particular keyword or descriptor type for what they need
they're looking for a project manager business analyst chief operating on
whatever ok they're not looking for seeking new opportunities so you are
wasting the most prime real estate where most people put that where you don't
need to do that ok and and if I happen to type in the word project manager and
you come up and the first thing I see well first thing I'm gonna see no matter
what you have is your picture have one it should look good it doesn't have to
be professionally taken and you don't need to airbrush it but don't be wearing
sunglasses unless you work for you know you're targeting sunglass hut twofer job
don't have your pet in the picture unless you're going on work for a pet
store but like it should just look good dead-on straight face look at mine it's
you know it's just your face that's it just so that they can see it that's good
and then they look to the right of that and then there's gonna be your title
your descriptor your headline or whatever and they're gonna see
seeking new opportunities it's not what they want to see now if you're one of
those oh hey I want people to know I'm actually looking you want people to know
that you're actually looking I'm gonna tell you two things number one there is
a listen if you're willing to put seeking new opportunities on your
headline then you are you are gonna be smart enough to go into the recruiter
settings and let them know that you are searching and you are open to new
opportunities and you could even put inside the private area they're seeking
new opportunities that's okay all right every recruiter worth their
salt that has a LinkedIn account has a LinkedIn package called LinkedIn
recruiter they go out and they search for people like project managers or
whatever in geographical locations or whatever with certain maybe who've
worked for certain types of companies or whatever and then they can see you've
checked the box yes all that does is it makes these recruiters nowadays they go
after all the people who are open to new opportunities why number one they're
lazy number two that path of least resistance they know you're gonna get
back to them if they contact you okay instead of the recruiters work they're
solved who will go after anybody and try to convince them that whatever their
their pitching or their company or their their client company or whoever has a
better opportunity all right so they'll find you they will believe me and you
just you don't you don't want to you know you just you don't want to put that
in public and the other the second point that I wanted to make I told you there'd
be two is we gather data the executive search firm I'll walk that I run that
I've been running since 2004 every year since we gather statistics on everybody
that we we recruit and we ask them how did you find your most recent position
how did you find the one before that and how did you find the one before that not
not walk me through your resume I just want to know can you tell me the medium
you used were you recruited was there you know did you apply online did you
get a referral did your old boss call you I just want to know and 11 percent
is our eight percent so like 1100 of the 12,000 that we had gathered
the data for what we were really capturing it those people said I got one
of those three most recent jobs on LinkedIn unsolicited from somebody who
emailed me meaning I wasn't even looking for a job and somebody emailed me
through LinkedIn or via email said I saw your profile LinkedIn and I ultimately
took the job don't you imagine that so this was back in the days and up until
recently where they didn't even have those kind of settings you couldn't even
do something like that so 8% you have you have less than a 3%
chance of being seen by putting your resume into an applicant tracking system
which means you've got less than a 1% chance for aggregated positions that you
would get your job by putting your resume into an applicant tracking system
when you have an 8% chance statistically I'm telling you that you have an 8%
chance of finding your job through LinkedIn by not even looking on LinkedIn
but just being there with a good profile so I wouldn't waste my headline or my
summary or my anything with seeking new opportunities open for new positions
looking for new positions looking for a new job none of that don't put any of
that on there trust me on this one folks it does not do you well all right you
want to shine put what you are and not not what you're doing I mean it put tell
them what you got going on all right hope that helps Shelley
you