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The Top 5 Ways to Use Linkedin To Your Advantage

MAKING CONTACT- This is perhaps the single most important reason to use LinkedIn. Making connections on LinkedIn is important, but once a connection is made then what? If you have made a connection with someone then there is a great chance that there is an mutually beneficial opportunity to be explored. PICK UP THE PHONE and call your new connection and begin a dialogue about how you might both benefit from being connected. If someone has requested to be LinkedIn with you then you are being seen as having some type of value.

The Money Question

There is an old axiom that says “whoever brings up money first on a job interview, generally loses.”

Candidly, the money question (or even the conversation about money) can be very awkward on a job interview for both an employer or a job candidate.

For the purpose of this article, the money question is that part of the interview when salary and benefits are discussed.

Who brings it up first? Why is it so often an anxiety provoking “make or break” discussion?

There are many obvious and not so obvious reasons.

If you are the candidate, you obviously want to get hired at the highest salary possible.

If you are the employer, you obviously want to hire the very best candidate at a salary that best fits your organization and cash flow.

Are You Willing To Fail?

Ask for what you truly want. What legitimate risk do you take when you communicate your need? When you ask for what you need. Maybe you will hear “no”, but you’ll never hear YES unless you ask. Is hearing NO a failure? Maybe hearing “no” just means that we have to strengthen our resolve to one day hear YES. But why not ask?

2. Believe that you are deserving of what you want. The mind is a powerful tool but sometimes we allow our minds to talk us out of what we want or need. Maybe we can use our mind to talk us into what we need or want?

Recruiters: Not Finding Jobs For People

A successful placement is when our client- the hiring employer- makes an offer to a candidate (that we present) and the offer is accepted with a start date provided.

In the end result, when a recruiter’s candidate is placed then it might be inferred that a recruiter has assisted someone in finding a job. However that wasn’t the intent.

In fact, if a candidate presented to an employer is not placed, then the search continues to fill the position, but not to help that same candidate find another job.

Professional recruiters are trained experts in the search process and all the nuances involved in human behavior. Years ago, recruiters were known as counselors.