This document discusses how networking and using LinkedIn can help one market themselves as a candidate of choice in a competitive job market. It provides tips on how to build and leverage connections through professional associations, alumni groups, recommendations, and content sharing on LinkedIn and SlideShare. The key is to build relationships, join groups, be discoverable online, and use social media to promote one's skills and what they are currently working on.
2. “ One lesson stands out: Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, whether you make it onto the Fortune 500, and whether you stay there, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you” Jim Collins Fortune , May 5, 2008
3. How to get a job When there are more candidates than openings? Copyright 2009 by Lynn Hazan & Associates - www.lhazan.com
4. YOU get very creative And apply your smarts to market yourself as a Candidate of Choice
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12. Spheres of Influence -- Individual Contacts YOU Arts/Culture Listservs Professional Associations Social Clubs Places of Worship Universities Attended Sports and Clubs Community Organizations Fill in your own group Fill in your own group
26. After posting a presentation, LH&A was featured on SlideShare’s Career frontpage: An endorsement from SlideShare
27. An underutilized resource Promote yourself with your resume and portfolio Add the SlideShare app to your LinkedIn page and get more usage from your content
33. The Empowered Job Seeker 1 to 1 consultation to help candidates re-position themselves for a changing job market. For details, contact lynn@lhazan.com Includes work on resume, interviews, networking, LinkedIn, job searching and negotiating with Lynn Hazan, a 25-year veteran of the recruiting business.
34. Here’s to a year for connections! May the force be with you! Lynn Hazan [email_address] www.lhazan.com 312.863.5401
35. Thanks to: Michael Walters Advertising for hosting James Heckman, AMA MeetUp Chair