How to get a brilliant new job in marketing this year
“Whether you’re looking for a new job or looking to make your next rock star hire, matching talent with opportunities is a time-consuming process,” reckon the folks at LinkedIn.
Late last year the professional social networking site launched a real-time job seeker application – currently in Beta. Profile Matches, aims to make it faster and easier to find jobs and candidates.
LinkedIn members will also be matched with job opportunities that they might otherwise miss, and hiring managers and recruiters will see qualified candidates immediately after posting a job.
I have to say that the feature is actually pretty good. This new feature works best when you’ve filled out the experience, summary and professional headline sections of your profile with details about your skills.
It’s been a long time coming for LinkedIn when you think about it. The site already enables users to list whether or not they are interested in job opportunities – and recruiters have long used the site as their head hunting ground.
And it’s no wonder: LinkedIn adds around 10 new members every 5 seconds, according to the company’s senior vice president of product development, Deep Nishar.
LinkedIn has around 135 million users in more than 200 countries. That’s a lot of exposure and opportunity.
Furthermore, as of September 2011, LinkedIn counts executives from all 2011 Fortune 500 companies as members; its corporate hiring solutions are used by 75 of the Fortune 100 companies.
There are 528,000,000 search results for ‘Marketing jobs UK’ when punched into Google.
Searching for a job using social media isn’t anything new. And in the field of marketing, it’s almost a given. We are a networking profession after all.
In reading through the many stories of those who managed to secure their current gig through social media, the biggest trend seemed to be that a chance tweet, Facebook post, or online connection made all the difference.
Here’s a cool one from a few years back:
