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5 Tips to Sourcing like a Pro
Jean O’Brien Customer Success Consultant
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Importance of Your LinkedIn Profile – Personal Branding
Under-utilised Searching Techniques
Ensure your Job is Reaching the Right People
Business Development
LinkedIn Reporting
Agenda
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Who Would You Trust? Why?
Sara L [email protected] --
Canada | Human Resources
Current: Acme
62 connections
Background
Experience
Recruiter
Acme
April 2012-Current (1 year 7 months)
Skills & Expertise
2 Talent Acquisition
1 Human Resources
1 Interviewing Skills
1 Recruiting
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Let’s Take a Closer Look
Name/
Headline
Photo
Summary:
Professional
Highlights
Rich Media
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Your background
Your company
Your passion
A call to action
Summary
As a sales professional, throughout my career I have always been passionate about building relationships
and adopting new concepts that better myself, my company and my client’s experience.
During this time, I have had the privilege of working alongside talented individuals at major companies,
such as Staples and ADP, in various offices throughout North America.
I now work at LinkedIn, as a Sales Solutions Account Executive, in New York City. As of July 2013,
LinkedIn passed the 238 million members mark, and we continue to add members at a rate of two
members every second! We continue to strive to connect the world’s professionals, making them more
productive and successful.
If you would like to learn more about how we can transform your sales organization through social selling,
please contact me via InMail!
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Ask for recommendations
Especially from satisfied clients… which adds to your credibility.
AND
OR
NOT
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financial AND analysis
“financial analysis” OR
accounting
NOT Director
“financial analyst”
“financial analyst” AND (oracle
OR SAP)
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LinkedIn Search Modifiers (Boolean)
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Refine like you have never Refined before
Years of
Experience
Company
Location
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Alternative Searching
Indirect Implicit Conceptual Natural
Language
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Strengthen Your Job by Leveraging the Algorithm
Focus on these key fields to help your job be placed in front of the right
people.
Every Job Description Should Include:
• Highlighted opportunities for growth
• Explain Company Culture
• How the role impacts the organization
• Minimal focus on a list of requirements
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Tip No. 1 On LinkedIn Recruiter – What companies are hiring?
On the recruiter homepage click “Advanced Search”
Scroll all the way down to “Years at Current Company” and tick the “Less than 1 year” box
Click on the “Company Size” and choose the ones relevant to you and press search
Use the refinement filters to cut down by Location and Industry.
On the left hand side you will see the companies who have hired in the last year
Save your Search and set up a Search Alerts
Get notified when a company starts hiring again
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Tip No. 2 On LinkedIn.com – who are the contacts in my targeted
company?
On the LinkedIn homepage, click “Companies” from the search box drop down menu
Most companies will have a LinkedIn company page.
On the right hand corner you will see how many connections you
have within the company. Click on your second degree connections
At the top of the page you will see “View results in Recruiter”
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You now want to refine this result down to the people you are targeting eg. Hiring manager, team
leader, director
On the right hand side click “Advanced Keyword”. A separate box will appear,
click on “Job Title”
Under “Job Title” enter your Boolean search string and ensure you choose
“current only”
Refine your results down to your region using the location refinement filter
Save your search and set up a search alerts – you will be notified the moment someone new
joins LinkedIn or someone updates their LinkedIn profile and they are inside this search criteria
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Measuring Your Success
Recruiter Usage
• Searches Performed
• Saved Searches and Search
Alerts
• Profiles Viewed
Job Analytics
• Number of Views
• Number of Applies
• Number of Shares
• Deeper Dive into each Job
Posted
Pipeline Analytics
• Most used status
• Sources – where are you getting
the best talent from
• Most used tags among the team
InMail Analytics
• Number Sent
• Number Accepted
• Number Declined
• Response Rate
• Percentage of Templates Used