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  Original Air Date: 3/26/2009 10:00 PM UTC

  How To Be a Super Open Networker on LinkedIn

  Lean how to add thousands of connections to your LinkedIn profile without doing anything but clicking a few links and adding keywords to your profile.
  
  Being an open networker on LinkedIn is one of the most powerful strategies for adding 3,000, 6,000, even 10,000 connections in just a few months. Your first 4,000 connections can come as fast as 1 or 2 months.
  
  Remember, these are strategies for self promotion for you, your job and your business. Being an open network can accelerate your job search and help you get more leads for your products or services.
  
  These social networking strategies can be used in any social network, but in LinkedIn you will get the most results in the fastest way. Remember, LinkedIn is the social network for professionals.
  
  Don’t forget to read my book “The Unselfish Guide to Self Promotion” to learn more strategies on job hunting, sales, marketing and self promotion.
  
  
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• Original Air Date: 3/12/2009 10:00 PM UTC

  How to get a job NOW using LinkedIn Socal Network - Part 2

  Learn how to get a job NOW using the social network LinkedIn.com Learn how to treat your job or employment hunt like a sales process and get your dream job today. After you identify the perfect job for you don't forget to follow up. It is not enough to send a resume or an email. Try to find a connection in the company, follow up with a phone call, be active, and make sure your resume goes to the "A" pile and not to the "B" or "C" pile or resumes.
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• Date / Time: 3/11/2009 10:04 PM UTC

  How to get a job now using the social network LinkedIn -Part 1

  LinkedIn is one of the best places online or offline to find a new job. You just need to navigate this professional network so you don’t waste your time.

  LinkedIn is full of Hiring Managers and Head Hunters. What is the problem? Most of them don’t post jobs in the job section of LinkedIn. You have to find them and their jobs.

  
  Fill out your profile completely including
  -Photo
  -Job History
  -Education
  -Ask for Recommendations

  
  Join Groups
  -Join Local Groups
  -Join HR Groups where headhunters are
  -Join Industry Groups by Industry and Position
  –Industry like Construction, or Retail
  –Position like Architects, or Programmers, or Financial Analysts
  –Your can apply directly from LinkedIn

  
  Be an open networker
  -Put “open networker’ on your profile
  -This will allow hiring managers and recruiters to contact you

  
  Use the Job section to find jobs in your area
  -Search by location or position
  -Contact the hiring manager
  -Contact other people in your network in that company

  
  Look for job postings in Groups
  -Enter groups and click on Discussions and Jobs
  -Contact the job poster directly

  
  Contact Recruiters in your network
  -Look at your connections
  -Look at your groups
  -Look for jobs in their profile
  

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• Original Air Date: 3/5/2009 11:00 PM UTC

  How To Use LinkedIn to Get a New Job NOW

  This week our teleconference will be on how to use LinkedIn to get a new or a better job or simply network to make your information available to recruiters and hiring managers. It is not easy finding a job in a down economy. This is why you need an edge, you need visibility to the right people, as many people, in order to get the most exposure to your skills and your resume. We will go over how to use LinkedIn for Self Promotion in the job marketplace with easy usable strategies you can apply in 15 minutes after the teleconference. As you probably heard already the social network, or professional network LinkedIn.com has a very large concentration of hiring managers and headhunters. The problem is not all of them post jobs on this or other job posting networks. How can you contact them? How can they contact you? We’ll cover very active and passive approaches to finding a job NOW.
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  • employment
  • working
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