 What's going on everybody? Welcome back to another video. Today I'm going to show you how you can find and work with recruiters on LinkedIn. Working with recruiters is one of the fastest ways to land a job in tech and LinkedIn is a fantastic platform to work with recruiters. Now in LinkedIn there's two different ways that you can get connected with a recruiter. The first is that they reach out to you and the second is you reach out to them. So let's jump over to my screen and I'm going to show you how to do both. All right so we are looking at my actual LinkedIn page here and I'm going to show you the first way which is having recruiters reach out to you. This is by far the simplest and the easiest way to work with a recruiter where they're basically going to reach out to us. So what we're going to do is come right over here to open two. We're going to click on this and if we scroll down we have a few different options. We have finding a job, providing services, and hiring. Now what we're going to be doing is trying to find a job. So let's click on that and then it's going to ask us quite a bit of information. The first thing that you want is to add a job title. Now for us it'd be things like data analyst, maybe a healthcare analyst because I work in healthcare so I'll say healthcare analyst and then you could add others like a business analyst, marketing analyst, financial analyst and the list goes on. After you do that you can select what type of location you want whether it needs to be on site, hybrid, or remote. Now if you do select remote you still need to put in a location. Now your location actually does matter even if you are remote. The reason being is that sometimes there are laws for the state or for the country that their company can't comply with and so they won't be able to hire in certain areas so they need to know where you live or if you're on site like right up here they need to know that you're actually in the location that they're hiring for. After that we can scroll down. We're going to put our start date whether we can start immediately or we're just flexible and casually looking. Then we can select full-time, part-time, contract, internship, or temporary. For us it's most likely going to be full-time or contract and then lastly and this is an important one you can decide who can see this and so you can either show everybody which is going to include people who you work with potentially your manager that you currently have or you can just show recruiters. Now for me I've almost always done recruiters only so that people who I'm currently working with don't go and tell my boss or my manager that hey Alex is looking for another job. After that all you're going to do is click save and then you'll be good to go. Now that is a fantastic step in the right direction but you really still need to work on your profile just a little bit. The way that a recruiter is going to find you and reach out to you is by searching specific keywords. So maybe for me they're looking for someone who's in the Charleston area who is a data analyst and no sequel. Now when they actually find my profile they're going to come and visit my profile before they actually send me a message. So there are a few things that I want you to have on here. You definitely need a profile picture. This one's very old I definitely should update this I just haven't but there's a few other things that you need. You definitely need to have at least a few posts in here. You don't have to be a content creator or anything like that but just have something to fill up this area with some posts that with achievements or you know something interesting. Then you should have an about section just a little bit about who you are and what you're looking for and then lastly experience and education. Now if you don't have experience you don't need to add it but you definitely at least need your education in there and probably the most important part of this entire thing is your skills section. When recruiters are hitting off those keywords a lot of times it's for skills and so you need to come in here and add in your skills. Now I have a bunch in here and some of them are repetitive things like Python and Microsoft SQL Server. If I scroll down I know for a fact I have other types of SQL in here. Here we go like Transac SQL PostgreSQL MySQL and so whichever one they're searching for I should come up in the results. So it's just a friendly tip you definitely want to have your whole profile set up. My very last tip for your profile is I can come over here to this more and you're going to click on it and you can build a resume. Here you can actually upload your resume that recruiters can see before they actually ask you to send it to them. So like I said it's kind of the more passive way you're just going to wait for recruiters to reach out to you but if you want to actively be applying you want to actively be reaching out to recruiters I'm going to show you how to do that as well. So let's go over to this job section and let's see what we can find. So let's go to data analyst and let's scroll down and see what we find. It could be any company never heard of this one but this is a senior data analyst role at JoBot. Never heard of it but let's go ahead and click on it and let's say this was a job I wanted to apply for. So they have this data analyst job I'm going to apply for it but then I'm going to go one step further and I'm going to reach out to a recruiter who works at the company. So all we have to do to find a recruiter that works at JoBot which maybe you've heard of it I have not. We're going to go over to people and then what we can do is we can actually filter on these employees so we can choose where they live and let's say I want to reach out to someone who lives in the US like me and then I can scroll over and we can choose recruiting so we have right here. So what are they skilled at and here we have recruiting so I'm going to select recruiting and you can filter by a bunch of other things maybe you want to find somebody who may have gone to the same college as you and have that personal connection. So there's a bunch of other filters that you can look at but then we scroll down and all of these people are going to be recruiters at this company so what I would do if I was really serious about this position is I would reach out to two or maybe three of them and send them a message so what we're going to do so we're just going to come right over here here's Denise we're going to shoot her a message and our message is basically going to be hey I saw this position open at your company I'm extremely interested I love what your company does I'd love to learn more about the position and your company. In the description I'll put something that you can just copy and paste for these types of messages they'll be really short and to the point as well as very polite so we're not going to actually message Denise but this is exactly how you can find them and again you can filter this down even further you can message a lot of recruiters or just one recruiter. Now here's what I will say about reaching out to recruiters is that typically you're only going to get about a 10 to 20 percent response rate on all the messages that you send. This is kind of a numbers game so it's kind of a game of persistence this is something that I have a lot of personal experience with I've done this for many years and it really works but just don't expect every single recruiter that you reach out to to actually message you back. Now that's how you can work with a recruiter on LinkedIn but I'm going to show you just one kind of bonus tip which is how you can find a recruiter in your area and reach out to them. So I'm going to come here to Google and all I'm going to type is I'm looking for a certain area and I'm looking for technical recruiters. Now I don't live in a huge metropolitan area anymore but before I used to live in Dallas I lived there for over five years and that's where I got my first data analyst job so I'm going to search there for technical recruiters. I'm going to say data analyst technical recruiters Dallas Texas and what I'm going to do is I'm not going to go up here to the jobs I'm going to go down to the businesses and it looks like we have a few here and I'm going to check out this GTN technical staffing and I click on their website. Now as you can see just at a glance these are technical recruiters and I'm going to go ahead and contact them you can kind of do some more research see what jobs they have open but I'm just going to send them my name my email my phone number that I'm a candidate and then my resume right here so that they can then see if I'm a good fit for them. You may even go as far as reaching out to them by calling their office number and just saying hey my name is Alex I'm a data analyst I'm looking for a job you know here are my credentials and then see if you can work with a recruiter at this company. This is what's called cold emailing or cold calling this is not the most optimal way to do it although this is an avenue that you can go down I just found that LinkedIn works a lot better it's a lot more streamlined process and so that's typically what I stay with. So those are the exact steps that I take to work with recruiters on LinkedIn. I wish you the absolute best of luck in your job hunt if you like this video be sure to like and subscribe below and I'll see you in the next video