How to Use LinkedIn to Get Calls From Recruiters - CareerEnlightenment.com

How to Find Recruiters in Your FieldI got an email from a blog reader who told me that he has IT recruiters, Medical recruiters and Science recruiters in his network, but none in PR, Communications and Marketing.How would he even begin to find the right recruiters to add? Here’s how.Open up the advanced people search feature on LinkedIn.Filter by location. This is a key variable. Make sure it’s where you want to work, not just where you live.Filter by industry, current company (if you are targeting).Add these keywords, try out “Recruiter” or “Talent Acquisition ” or “Sourcing”.Optionally, add role specific keywords like PR, or Communications and see how that affects search results.For paid LinkedIn subscribers:Filter by “Interested in…Potential Employees”.Filter by Function…Human Resources.Join groups for recruiters and then filter your advanced search to include those groups.In general, start off with as many filters and variables as you can. Then gradually l ift them to grow your list size.If nothing pops up, maybe recruiters in your industry don’t hang out on LinkedIn.Tip: you can save your searches and come back to them later!How to Add RecruitersOnce you have your list of recruiters from the previous step, connecting is really easy.As much as LinkedIn says, “You should only connect with people you know.” Their features tell us that they actually want us to connect with as many people as possible. It only helps their share price!Your second degree connections will look like this:Just click on Connect, and the invitation with the boilerplate language is sent.It will look like this:For your third degree connections, you will have to take an extra step. Those will look like this:In this case, click on the name of the person to open up their profile. Then click Connect from their profile to open up this window:Here, you might modify the message to say something like this,Hi Jean,I noticed you are a recruiter in my industry. I’m op en to new opportunities and thought it might be mutually beneficial if we connected.Thanks,Me.AlternativesAssuming that recruiters look at who’s viewed their profile on a regular basis, you can also use tools like LinkedIn Autopilot.Autopilot “views” the profiles in a saved search at a rate you determine. The people whose profile it views might see you show up in their Who’s Viewed My Profile list. If they think you would be a good candidate, they will ask you to connect.I’m curious how these techniques have worked for you. Please let me know if you tried it, and what happened in the comments below.