The Secret To A Successful Online Job Search

By Jewel Bracy DeMaio / Job Search Strategist / PerfectJobSolution.com

What would work better for you? Searching for jobs online for months and months? Or minimizing the search time and maximizing your success? Would it make a difference for you if you no longer had to search endlessly and fruitlessly, but instead the right people and the right opportunities found you? Then here’s the truth on find jobs the right way.

To slash months off your job search, it’s important to get away from what I call the “push” method, of pushing your information out onto seemingly anybody and everybody. Break out of that routine and adopt the advanced strategies that will be the tipping point for you to achieve job search success.

One ideal place to not push for opportunities, but do the opposite: attract opportunities to you, is LinkedIn. LinkedIn works quite effectively for job search at the free level, so couple this with other online avenues. LinkedIn is among the key places where employers and recruiters search for professionals who offer specific areas of expertise. You have to first maximize your network to ensure your profile can be found. LinkedIn won’t be nearly as useful to you if you’re sitting on your own private networking island. The size and depth of your network directly correlates to how long your job search will take.

Profiles with more connections rank higher than others. Get connections quickly by joining LinkedIn’s LION network. LION stands for LinkedIn Open Networkers. LIONS are people with lots of connections who are open to receiving new invites, helping people connect, and paying it forward. They are the people in the LinkedIn community who know large numbers of other people and who are in the habit of making introductions. Use the search feature to find LinkedIn LIONs. Invite them to connect. Repeat.

Connecting with LIONs achieves the following for you: LIONS give you access, and will be instrumental in expanding your 2nd and 3rd degree network. An employer or recruiter searching with someone with your skills will never land on you if you’re not in his 2nd or 3rd degree network. Without connecting to LIONS, 98% of recruiters will never see you at all, regardless of what else you do on LinkedIn.