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From: "Alex Freund" <alex@landingexpert.com >
Date: Jun 22, 2010 4:09 PM
Subject: [TheBreakfastClubNJ] Using LinkedIn to Recruit - article
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I found this current article via Twitter and thought that there is good information here for peopl...I have just interviewed Rachel Newell, Managing Director of Max Resourcing, a successful recruitment consultancy specialising in placing professionals and senior managers within the clinical, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries across Europe. -
Rachel was happy to share her expertise with me on how her team at Max Resourcing have had a great deal of success using LinkedIn to source candidates. She also provided some advice to help you optimise your chances of being found by relevant recruiters. Rachel started by sharing some very interesting and bang up to date LinkedIn statistics with me :-
Rachel: There are currently 66,000 recruiters using LinkedIn in the UK alone and LinkedIn has 70 m...
Job title – some companies use unusual job titles which will not be easy to find in a key word sea...- Join Groups – If you join several groups within you area of expertise and get involved in discussions, it will increase your profile and again you'll be more likely to come up in a recruiters' search, it will optimise your chances.
Career history – you only need to show your relevant career history, usually showing your last thre...
Judith: What other advice would you give to someone who is seeking a job in this time of online ne...Rachel: Start thinking about your own network and make sure that you regularly update your contacts, very often people find that the key influencers and decision makers are within their own network. I would also urge people to realise that HR Directors will often do a search online before inviting a candidate for interview – 80% are using social media to support their recruitment process of which over 95% are using LinkedIn and many of them will use facebook as a back up. Remember, 'what goes on in Vegas does not stay in Vegas anymore.'-
Many thanks to Rachel for sharing her expertise with us and for being as helpful and informative a...
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