By Jeff Lipschultz
With all the rage around social media in job searching, LinkedIn stands out as the tool of choice for many recruiters to connect with job seekers (or future job seekers).
Knowing how recruiters use the tool may shed some light on how to leverage LinkedIn in your own job search efforts. Granted, good recruiters use many social media tools to find candidates, like FaceBook and
Twitter.
However, LinkedIn.com is the largest social network for professionals. LinkedIn provides the best avenue to quickly learn enough about a person to see if they should be contacted for a particular job opening. Candidates need to leverage LinkedIn as much as possible to be included in these searches.
1. Have a Large LinkedIn Network
To be found on LinkedIn, you need to have a large network because LinkedIn search results are limited to those accounts which are the searcher's first, second, and third level connections. If you aren't connected to someone at one of those levels, you won't appear in their search
results.
Although many recruiters know how to search for candidates who are outside their own LinkedIn three degrees of connectivity or pay LinkedIn for that access, not all do. Therefore, the more people you are connected to, the more likely you may be connected to recruiters.
Recruiters love invites to your network, too. Don’t be afraid to ask them to join your network -- they may be unable to ask you to join their network because of LinkedIn’s built-in rules.
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