3 Ways to Use LinkedIn to Advance Your Career Change - CareerEnlightenment.com

Use the location where you want to workIf youre willing to move to where the jobs are, then update your LinkedIn profile to the address or zip code of the place you want to be. Economists say  that most of todays unemployment would go away if people werent tied down to where they live. Sure, its underwater mortgages, but its also an  unwillingness to go where the jobs are. If you can cut the rope, your chances of getting hired to do what you love increase quite a bit.Think about how you use a job board. You enter two pieces of data: job title and location. Recruiters do the same thing. So if you want an accounting job  in San Francisco, your profile is more likely to show up on a search-results page if your location matches that of the recruiter.Add recruiters to your networkRecruiters want you in their network because they may want to pitch you for a position. So when you add recruiters whom youve never even met before,  theyre very likely to accept your connection invite.Furthermor e, external recruiters work with companies in contracts. So when you add a recruiter as a primary contact, youre very likely going to pick up a  collection of people working at the companies you are targeting in your second degree network.Therefore, the more recruiters you have in your network, the greater your chance of 1) showing up in targeted search results and 2) having an effective  second-degree network.