Maximize Recruitment On Linkedin

Maximize Recruitment on

Fred HinesleyPrincipal -H3 Professional Resources, LLC

Hosted by JobScience

“Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer”

Rick Patino

Introduction

Who am I: www.linkedin.com/in/fhinesley www.h3pr.com fhinesley@h3pr.com Panelist – Kim Peterson Host/Moderator - Mike Vicchitto SalesForce/JobScience Generalizations-Recommendations Disclosures

“Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible” Alvin Toffler

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Let’s Maximize!

Nearly 20% of recruiters use no social networking sites at all.

LinkedIn 67% Facebook 8% MySpace 1.5% Twitter 1%

Web 2.0 – What is it

“Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time” Ross Perot

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Let’s Maximize!

LinkedIn – Recruiters Dream

Your Profile and how to Advertise it

Growing Your Network

Avoiding Common Pitfalls

“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”

Albert Einstein 4

Your Profile – Advertise It!

Complete it

Your name/title – advertise

What are you doing – hyperlink!

Summary – be a HUMAN…have feelings

“Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire” Arnold H. Glasow

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Your Profile – Advertise It!

Applications – be careful

Recommendations – only a few ...make them work for you!

Websites – be specific – not generic

Interest –keyword central

“In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited”

Herbert Hoover 6

Growing Your Network

Be specific/Have a niche – LION can be detrimental to recruiters.

Watch who you connect with…you do have competitors

Groups – Most Important tool on LinkedIn!!!!! Contacts – private info…sweet! Use the Jobscience contact quick add and the create a candidate

“If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm” Vince Lombardi 7

Avoiding Common Pitfalls

LinkedIn – Recruiters Dream – But!

Adding to your network...be careful

Overexposure

Good at many …… Great at none!

“Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships”

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Helpful Hints

Present your profile to right audience In your Marketing/Communications

make LinkedIn profile prominentGet recommended by experts in your

nicheTrack traffic to measure success

Google AnalyticsOur WebsiteCritique other profiles 9

Resources Scott Love – www.greatrecruitertraining.com

Books: I'm on LinkedIn--Now What??? (2nd Edition) by Jason Alba Happy About LinkedIn for Recruiting (2nd Edition) by Bill Vick The LinkedIn Personal Trainer by Steven Tylock

Online: www.linkedintelligence.com/smart-ways-to-use-linkedin/ http://www.google.com/analytics/

Thanks – Jobscience, Panelist, you

“The most fundamental way of finding people online is to help them find you” Phil Agre 10

Questions/Comments/Advice?

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