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COMPLETE◦ What you do.◦ Where you’ve worked.◦ What others think of you◦ What you care about◦ What you look like
Your linked in presence.◦ Edit your name, location and industry.◦ Your professional headline is not just your job title◦ Personalize your URL◦ Your Photo — make it professional or close to it.
Your peopleConnections◦ Connect with a minimum of 50-100 people.
Endorsements◦ LI encourages colleagues to endorse you for your skills◦ LI will prompt you to endorse connections◦ Endorse a few to get a few endorsements◦ Skills rank highly in searches
Be a joiner◦ Recruiters look at this◦ Show how engaged you are. ◦ Join prominent groups in your industry◦ Show where you are keeping up on the news – listening to voices◦ Share interesting articles or news. ◦ Connect with the others in your industry.
Recommendations◦ Ask a former manager or direct supervisor◦ Tell them what you’d like to highlight◦ Be specific. ◦ Relate it to projects or events.◦ One recommendation for each job you have held.
More about recommendations◦ HR people will often send the hiring execs to look at the recommendations. ◦ Whether or not you get hired can often depend on the quality of
recommendations you have on your profile. ◦ A good recommendation should define your role on a project, reference the
skills used, and include a date.
Customize
Your name is your URL
Choose jobs
Books◦ The Brand called You, Tom Peters (Fast Company 1997)◦ Career Distinction, William Arruda, Kirsten Dixson (2007)◦ Build your own Life Brand, Stedman Graham (2002)◦ Promote yourself: the new rules for career success, Dan Schawbel
(Author), Marcus Buckingham (2013)
Other resources ◦ Rankings of hospitals from US News◦ Look for the hospitals on LinkedIn
◦ Health Ecareers
◦ Healthcare Job Site a place to manage your career, search for new opportunities and connect with top Healthcare employers and professionals.
◦ Snagajob Healthcare Jobs. Do you like to help people? Do you look good in scrubs? The largest part-time and full-time hourly healthcare job resource.
◦ Indeed Health Care jobs is the #1 job site worldwide with over 140 million unique visitors each month. More people find healthcare jobs on Indeed than anywhere else.
Other sites◦ CareerBuilder helps match the right healthcare talent with the right opportunity more often
than any other site. ◦ Monster provides career advice, job-seeking tips and more. The global leader in connecting
people to healthcare job opportunities. ◦ Craigslist is a local classified and forum for jobs, resumes, etc with a dedicated section for
healthcare jobs.◦ About.com on health care careers
Links to reading◦ How recruiters creepily troll social media (Entrepreneur 1/24/15)◦ The Importance of social media to your job search (infographic)◦ The most important LinkedIn Page you will never see (Wired 04/15/13)◦ Why I do my recruiting through LinkedIn (NYT blogs insight into recruiters
perspective)
