There’s more to job seeking on LinkedIn than adding the Open To Work banner to your LinkedIn Profile. There are specific and essential settings that will improve your reach.
Introduction Job Seeking Preferences on LinkedIn
Did you know that there’s a specific type of premium LinkedIn account for recruiters? Some are the in-house recruiter for a large company while others are recruiters working for multiple companies. It provides them with many advanced features that you can tap into by getting your job seeking settings right on your own LinkedIn profile.
There are of course plenty of recruiters for small and medium sized businesses that just use regular LinkedIn to post the occasional job on LinkedIn. They have access to fewer of the same tools.
Where to find the ‘Job Seeking Preferences’ settings on LinkedIn
Settings > Data Privacy
1. The Job Application Settings
1.1. Save resumes and application data
Setting: On or Off
This allows LinkedIn to save your resumes and answers to application questions. You can change your answers with each application.
2. Share your profile when you click Apply for a job
Shares your LinkedIn profile with the job poster when you click Apply on a job that redirects you outside of LinkedIn.
Setting: On or Off
This setting may increase your chances of being viewed by the job poster.
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3. Signal interest to recruiters at companies you’ve created job alerts for.
Use your job alerts to signal interest to recruiters working at the companies.
Setting: On or Off
You’ll be alerted whenever a new job is posted. This also puts you on the radar of the recruiter. They may view your profile or contact you directly.
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