LinkedIn Company Pages - Relationships that Drive Results
Partner - Maximising your Presence on LinkedIn
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2. How to Improve your LinkedIn Presence
As a Company and as a Professional
6. Managing your LinkedIn Profile:
Get endorsed and recommended by candidates you have
placed
They will be able to speak first hand of how you supported
their job search
You only need a few to establish credibility
It is best to get a variety and make sure they address
different points
15. Use LinkedIn to research your competitors and
find potential clients
16. Take advantage of our mobile platforms
Information and business contacts at your finger tips on the go
17. Take Away Points
As a professional As a company
Manage your personal brand Manage your company’s
Build your network profile
thoughtfully Leverage your recruiters
Be active in the network Listen to the network and get
Allow yourself to be found insights
Add value to your clients Get mobile
Make sure that your information is correct and you have a professional pictureName, company, title, and contact infoUpdates – relevant to your network – LinkedIn Today
Again, think about your audience and ask for recommendations from the right people (satisfied clients and successfully placed candidates)My advice if you are a recruiter is to ask candidates that you have placed to give you a recommendation. This is a far more powerful message than the guy who hired you 10 years ago !You may also want to include recommendations from line managers within your business if you are trying to build internal relationships again it goes back to your target audience.
Is there any screening question you ask on the phone that you could post to your network to engage them and sift through potential candidates before reaching out directly.For example, if you are looking for a type of engineers, post a problem as a question. If you get someone coming back with the correct answer, you could say…”well if you enjoy working on problems like the one I sent you I think you may be interested in a position with company XYZ I am working with.”
[InMap labels build]This slide shows an InMap, which is a visual representation of your connections and how they’re all connected to each other. As you can see, there are clusters for this person’s current company, past company, school, and so on. We’ll share a link at the end of the webcast so you can create your own InMap—but we shared it here to demonstrate how powerful your network of connections can be.So let’s talk about your connections.First of all, with whom should you connect?Connect with…- People at your company Your peers at other companies People you’ve worked with or gone to school with in the past Qualified individuals in your candidate pipeline with whom you’d like to keep in touch, whether or not they’re ready for a new opportunityThe more people you’re connected to, the further your network reaches. Your connections allow you to gain valuable access to THEIR connections, and you can ask your connections to “warm up” your leads with an introduction to their connections. Try browsing through the connections of superstar engineers at your company, for example—odds are they know other superstar engineers and can introduce you!HOWEVER—that doesn’t mean you should connect with just anyone. Having people you don’t know, haven’t worked with, and can’t vouch for can dilute your network’s value. Also, as a word of warning—if you invite strangers to join your network too many times and people respond that they do not know you, you will not be allowed to use this invite mechanism in the future. So choose your connections wisely!
Reverse job titles and company filters. Filter time in current position Put Your Professional Network at your FingertipsWalk into any interview or client meeting with the ability to look up the details and connect with over 100 million professionals worldwide, in real-time.Works with BlackBerry Contacts, Calendar and MessagingInstant access to the professional identity of anyone you know, meet or email.Spark a ConversationGet the latest updates from your contacts, send the info they need, congratulate them on a recent promotion, and more.
So we’ve talked about what the individual can do to ensure that the best foot is forward at all times; we’ve also now laid a foundation for your organisation to build a strong brand within the LinkedIn environment.Consider your company page on LinkedIn the hub of all activity. This is where your organisation can assert it self as an agency of choice, an employer of choice, and ensure that your corporate vision is represented effectively within the LinkedIn environment. We say this is your hub of all activity because anytime someone, whether it’s a possible client or candidate, needs to learn something about your organisation, this is where they will find it. It’s important for the LinkedIn environment to understand what your company does, why it’s great to do business with you, why it’s great to work for you, and why I can trust to my career with you. • Follow your company to stay in the loop on keydevelopments, including job openings and otherupdates.• Read through a high-level overview of your company.• See who in their network is employed by yourcompany.• Access the latest news about your company throughyour blog posts and Twitter feeds.• Visit the “Employee Statistics” section to get ananalytical perspective on your employees. Forexample, they can see what percentage of yourcompany’s employees are in engineering, sales ormarketing. Or how your company’s employee basehas grown over time, as reected by your employees’LinkedIn proles.• Get a quick summary of other key company datathat you choose to provide.Organization specific information is important to driving candidate response from passive candidatesImportant to note that anyone can change the content – many companies are appointing stewards of their LinkedIn brand and aligning content with business and marketing/communications departments/strategies Ensures a consistent and positive user experience with your brand
There are parts of the LinkedIn profile that your entire team of recruiters should be leveraging to build your employment brand and talk about the opportunities at your company. Three things Harry does well here: First, he links to LinkedIn’s company website, career site, blog, AND Twitter feed. As a recruiter, you should link to every place a candidate can go to find out more about your company and careers there. Second, Harry uses his Summary section like an elevator pitch for any would-be-candidate. And finally, Lindsat takes advantage of the applications you can add to your LinkedIn profile. You’ll see that she’s incorporated LinkedIn’s corporate blog via our WordPress app. We’ve seen other recruiters embed presentations, polls, Twitter feeds, and sponsored events to provide more color around what it’s like to work at their companies.
Use your LinkedIn status update as you would a targeted, business edition of Twitter. You can even selectively synchronize the two from LinkedIn.com or from Twitter.com. Your status updates are a fantastic opportunity to share information virally. You can:- Advertise open jobs at your company and ask your network to pass on leads- Share tips on job seeking to position yourself as an expertPost exciting updates about your company and highlight what it’s like to work there(as you’ll see on the slide, here’s Brendan again, sharing news and updates about LinkedIn, as well as jobs we have open right now.)
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As recruitment agencies pop up all the time, it is important to know who is recruiting in your space. You can also use linkedIn to search for potential clients that have open positions.
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