7 mistakes job seekers make online

7 mistakes job seekers make online

and how you can avoid them...

{Not Again!}

“No one else can control your career as well as you can”

6 months of no luckUsed my suggestions

17 inquiries next week

Recently laid offActively used

LinkedIn6 months later, 2

raises

so what’s different withtodays

jobsearch?

hiring practices have

chang

ed

here are some factshere are some facts

only 3.5% of jobs make it toonly 3.5% of jobs make it to3%3%

jojobb boards andboards and 300:1

people to jobs

LinkedIn

134 M 134 M professionalsprofessionals

95%

Personal

branding

LinkedIn

mastery

#FAIL

= the the maybemaybe

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mistake 1:not having

a brand

Who You AreWho You Are What They What They NeedNeed

mistake 2:your headline

is not just your job title

mistake 3:a rambling profile

summary

hello, my name is...

I’m a...

specializing in...

1. who are you?

what problem do you solve?

2. what do you DO?

try naming one of your biggest successes

3. why are YOU the best?

what kind of job are you looking for?

4. what do you want?

1. Who Are You?

2. What Do You Do?

3. Why You’re the Best?

4. What Do YOU Want?

mistake 4:not getting to

100%complete

ii ’’m tall, m tall, dark and dark and

handsomehandsome

yea! yea! right!right!

mistake 5:looking like an axe

murderer

mistake 6:not using a

reading list to show motivation

eek! networking!eek! networking!

“I’d like to take this off line and find out if I’d be a

fit for the company or not so that I am not wasting your time or mine. What day next week will you have 30 minutes to chat?”

mistake 7:leaving your

online relationships online

positioning

polish your profiles

polish your profiles

take it offline!

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