Job-Hunt Intelligence - Increase LinkedIn Profile Power & Resumes for Career Change

Published: Wed, 03/20/19

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7 ways to have a more powerful LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn offers many opportunities to include appropriate keywords for your job search and career. It is smart to take advantage of those opportunities, given LinkedIn's popularity among recruiters.

Review job descriptions for the job you want from the employers you would be happy to work for (your "target" employers). What job titles do those employers use for the job you want? Which of your qualifications do they specify most often in their descriptions? Where are they located?

Your job is to place the appropriate keywords in your LinkedIn profile. Certain parts of the profile carry more weight than others. This article will show you how to make sure that you show up in the searches relevant to your job search.

Creating Your Career Change Resume in 5 Steps

by Randi Bussin

A career change (change in job function, change in industry, or both) is one of the biggest challenges. After you figure out what you want to do, the next big challenge is presenting and marketing yourself for this new role.

Think about it. The hiring manager needs to believe you can do the job. You need to highlight your experience and qualifications for the new career, even if that includes volunteering or other related work done outside of your official job.

You have to translate what you have done in your past roles in such a way that a potential hiring manager immediately understands its relevancy to the position for which you are applying.

Understand that the vast majority of recruiters will Google you, and your online visibility (e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.) will need to be "in sync" with the content of your resume.

Follow the 5 steps in this article to update your resume for your new career and then update your online visibility to match.

How to Navigate Career Change at a Crossroads

by Virginia Franco

For most, the notion of a career change comes when people arrive at a "crossroads" -- personally, professionally, or both.

While the circumstances that trigger each person’s crossroads may be different, the roadmap to figuring out if career change is right for you is often eerily similar.

Like many, my own career path was anything but a straight path – which can make career change even more daunting. My own crossroads came during the 2008 economic downturn.

My husband’s income was reduced drastically, his job was at risk, and my family expanded (we went for 3 kids and got 4!). I needed to bring in more income – and was struggling to do so in a way that didn’t mean losing half of my salary on childcare.

Learn how I did it and how you can do it, too, in 4 steps to navigating career change.

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