Updating Your LinkedIn Profile To Become Marketable!

1. Updating Your LinkedIn Profile To Become Marketable!

2. Agenda • Edit Overall Profile Presentation • Profile Search Engine Optimized • Contact & Website Customizations • Adding Summary • Adding Essentials to make you more Marketable

3. 1st Things 1st • Privacy/Profile Privacy/Sharing Profile Edits

4. Edit Overall Profile Presentation

5. Tips to get your profile indexed by Search Engines: Are you wanting to be found on Linked In….Company or Personal? • Put |BARS| in your profile/add location(s)/add multiple job titles • Choose "Make my public profile visible to everyone" in your public profile settings.(You must display your full last name to have a Public Profile.) • Invite and connect with at least 1 connection. • Supplement your profile with additional sections and information. • Update your profile regularly to keep it current. • 6%-12% of people that post organically that “Like” your post, comment on your post, or share your post-you get lots more exposure. (Organic reach is the total number of unique people who were shown your post through unpaid distribution.)

6. Contact Customizations • Edit Profile/Click on “gear” next to address/Change Wording

7. Website Customization • Edit Profile/Contact Info/Websites

8. Adding a Summary on Yourself • I have background in the staffing industry for the last 12 years consulting with organizations on their hiring needs and employee retention. • I work with companies to fill permanent placement professionals, temporary contractors and/or temp-to-hire placements on a part-time or full-time basis. • I offer several customized packages for placement, online advertising, payrolling and other optional add-on services to fit your needs. • I work with businesses (clients) to gather information on their employment needs, assist in writing job advertisements, utilizing targeting advertising campaigns, source and screen candidates and select the top ones to submit. This is all done along with a guarantee placement period of monthly options. • I equip business professionals (candidates) on how to better leverage themselves in the hiring market by resume writing and customization, interviewing skills, along with job and interview preparation. • I am a professional networking member of Corporate Connections Group that meets every Tuesday morning, the EJBA (East Jefferson Business Association), which meets the 2nd Tuesday of every month and I am an active member in the (NRHRA) Northshore Region Human Resource Association. • Specialties: Staffing Agency, Information Technology Recruiter, Professional Recruitment, Online Advertising for Your Job Openings, Full-time and Temporary Employment, and Payrolling

9. Adding Essentials to make you more Marketable • You Tube Video • Skill Summary of Technical Skills • Your own Website • Add PDF’s, such as your resume and/or cover letter. • Add Job Experience, Organizations, Education & Groups

10. Another Tid-Bit of Info • Profile/My Updates – There you can see how many # of connections you have in your network.