LinkedIn has served job seekers in numerous ways. It keeps introducing new features to help individuals with their profile and employment hunt. This time LinkedIn has unveiled five new updates to strengthen its relationship with job seekers.
The business-and-employment-based social media platform recently highlight a series of features to help you find work opportunities and be prominent to recruiters. These updates include Open-To-Work and Skills Match, aiming to equip professionals with the essential tools to browse companies and employment options, matching their requirements.
Standing out becomes necessary for job seekers in the competitive job market to boost the likelihood of getting hired. LinkedIn’s latest updates can come in handy to indicate interest to managers and recruiters as they highlight your experience and skills and leverage the network for maximum support.
LinkedIn’s new features can lead to more employment opportunities and career development. These include the following:
Skills Match
LinkedIn’s Skills Match feature enables job seekers to comprehend the skills needed for a particular job role to compare them with their profile. You can tag your skills to the relevant education, certifications, and experiences.
Open-to-Work
You can use Open-to-Work privately or share with a broader community. With this feature, you can indicate to recruiters that you are new to employment opportunities. The Open-to-Work feature allows job seekers to set up job alerts to get notifications for relevant job postings.
Sharing The Resume with Recruiters
LinkedIn lets you share your resume with all recruiters to make it easy for them to find and approach them.
Hiring in the Network with Referral
With this update, you can tap into your network to identify employment opportunities and improve your likelihood of getting hired. The business-and-employment-based social media site proactively alerts you when recruiters in your network begin hiring.
‘I am Interested’ to Indicate Your Interest
You can benefit from this feature to indicate your interest in getting hired by a company from your LinkedIn page. The feature lets you share your profile and information privately with recruiters to consider you for a role in the coming days.
The new updates let you find the most suitable employment matches, access qualifications, and get a referral from the network. As a job seeker, you can leverage these features to navigate opportunities that align with your interests and skills.
Earlier, LinkedIn revealed advanced content strategies for more sales and leads. It highlights the foundation for a strong content plan by setting aside some time to research and use competitive insights to help with your content creation. These advanced strategies include knowing your customer, checking your analytics, researching the competition, creating high-value applicable content, sharing lead magnets, and using native publishing tools.
LinkedIn advanced strategies help you share tons of your company’s content for marketing.
Likewise, you can identify how your content performs and how much it needs the change before meeting your goals. The company page analytics and creators can help you benchmark your company’s performance and highlight the best and worst-performing content.