Job search isn’t getting any easier. In fact, the saying that finding a job is a full time job has never been truer. The average job posting receives 50-100 resumes and companies are relying more on technology and their networks to find and filter candidates. Learn more about the top three things you can do to stand out from the competition. 1) Finding and Asking for Referrals 2) Leveraging LinkedIn 3) Get Your Foot in the Door

1. 3 Ways to
Update Your Job Search

2. Remember This?

3. Know This?

4. Ever Seen One of These?

5. Good Luck Finding This!

6. 1. Finding & Asking for Referrals
2. Leveraging LinkedIn
3. Getting Your Foot in the Door

7. 1,591 recruiters
185,450 jobs filled
CareerXroads 2013 Study

8. 66% of External Hires from 3 Sources
66%

9. Job Boards = 18.1% of hires

11. Referrals = 24.5% of hires

12. Which Odds Are Better?
1 out of 10
1 out of 74

13. ALWAYS Do the 2-Step

14. Where To Find Referrals

15. LinkedIn Relationships
1st
Degree
connection
You
You
You
2nd
Degree
connection
Members are like
1st
Degree
connections

16. 1st
Degree: What Do You Say….
Hi Sally! Hey, I need your help…
Hi Sally! What’s new? What do you
know about the new job posted…
Hi Sally, I see there’s an opening at
your company…

17. Hello Sally,
Hope you are doing well! We’ve got to get together soon!
Maybe you could help me. I see there is an opening at your
company for a [job] and I was wondering what you could tell me
about it?
Do you think I would be a good fit?
Does your company have an employee referral program?
Do you know the name of the person doing the hiring?
I am eager to apply to this position and I look forward to hearing
from you soon. If there is an employee referral program, I would
be happy to use your name!

18. To reach a 2nd
Degree connection….
Hi Sally! Hey, I need your help, can you
introduce me to Bill…
Hi Sally! I believe you know Bill over at …
Hi Sally! There’s an opening at
[company] do you know someone over
there named…

19. Hello Sally,
Hope you are doing well! I need your help with
something!
There is a job I think is a great fit for me at [company].
As I was searching LinkedIn, it appears you know Bill
Smith. I think you both worked together at ABC
company in the 90s. I was wondering if you could either
introduce us or provide me his email so I can reach out
to him.

21. Career Site = 23.4% of hires
Careers Jobs Employment

22. Current employees fill 42% of all the openings
The #1 Source of Hire is…

23. What does this mean?

24. A Few other points:
 Hiring in 2013 projected to increase 17.5%
Large, highly competitive US-based
employers with full time recruiting staff vs.
small to medium employers
Social Media (especially LinkedIn) not
tracked consistently

25. What Will You Do Differently?

26. LinkedIn www.LinkedIn.com/in/Hannah Morgan
Twitter @careersherpa
Facebook Career Sherpa
Google+ +Hannah Morgan
Email hmorgan@careersherpa.net
To Your Success!