{Hummed to the tune "The 12 Days of Xmas}
On the 10th day of Christmas - Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0 revealed to me -
Of all the things
you can do with LinkedIn -- and there are hundreds -- 10 are critical if you
want to connect with an employer faster.
If you donβt have a LinkedIn profile already,
go to LinkedIn.com and create it now. Follow the online instructions and just get a
basic profile done today -- you can always add to it later.
If youβre really stuck, search LinkedIn
for well-connected people in your profession, look closely at their profiles,
and find inspiration for what to include in yours.
When your basic
profile is done, here are 10 βmust doβ items, listed by priority:
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Youβll get access to my network of
more than 16M. My contacts which are βTwo degrees awayβ will become your third-level contacts instantly! Thatβs a million plus people
instantly. Thatβs a good start.
When asked how you know me, choose the option that says we
have done business together. www.linkedin.com/in/davidperry
My LinkedIn statistics:


Bonus: Being in a group lets you contact
other group members directly; you can also post and read discussions that may
be read by people you want to meet. Finally, make sure you join the Guerrilla
Job Search group. (www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/1189487/).
Bonus: When you write recommendations
for other LinkedIn members you accomplish two things:
Β·
You ingratiate yourself to the person you wrote the
testimonial for and they will very likely return the favor; and
Β·
You didnβt hear this from me
but.. As you might imagine, recruiters
regularly read testimonials. When
LinkedIn first started it was an easy way to separate the men from the boys,
so-to-speak. But a bunch of us quickly
recognized that by clicking on the name of the person who wrote the testimonial
we could often find another well qualified, if not better candidate. So writing testimonials for other people can
be a good strategy for being found. But I didnβt tell you that...
Finally, just as you
can connect your blog or website to LinkedIn, you should connect your Facebook,
Twitter, and other online profiles to your LinkedIn profile. This article from the Washington Post describes
how to do it quickly. To read
it Google the full title or copy and paste this URL into your web browser: http://tinyurl.com/m37l9v