Job Hunting Like A Boss!!

These days, Job Hunting has become an inevitable part in most people's career at various stages. Job seekers and Recruiters often use LinkedIn as one of the platforms for Job Hunt/Search. Often you would have seen in LinkedIn that some of the Job Seekers have the headline as "Actively looking out for New Opportunities". One should be cautious while putting such statement as it is visible to all the connected people in the network and if anyone in the network is from the same organisation, it will become evident, which may not be good.

How about Job Seeker indicating that he/she is "Actively looking out for New Opportunities" which should only be visible to Recruiters and not visible to your connected people in the network? Lovely isn't it? Yes Linked has the below privacy setting which allows the same.

Navigate to Your Profile --> Settings & Privacy --> Privacy --> Job seeking -->Let recruiters know you're open to opportunities, click it & turn it on to"Yes"

This will be on for a period of 90 days and it will get turned off automatically after 90 days. Again one can turn it on for another 90 days. After turned on, it also displays for how many days it has been turned on!

Clicking on "Update career interests" link, one can indicate the below:-

• Note to Recruiters (for up to 300 characters)
• What Job Titles are they considering?
• Which Job Locations?
• What type of jobs: Full-time or Part-time or Contract or Freelance etc
• Which industries are preferred - Computer Software, Financial Services etc
• Size (headcount) of the company

Once all these have been set, Job Seeker's Profile will be ready to appear in the search results of Recruiters (who are using LinkedIn's Recruiter Product Subscription) based on the matching career interests.

Also, the LinkedIn feed will start showing up Jobs matching the career interests.

Update the Current Company correctly in your profile so that LinkedIn doesn't show up (of course with a disclaimer) your Profile if any of your Current Company's Recruiters are searching and it matches your career interests!!!

All the Best in case You are Job Hunting! Feel free to Comment!