The Undercover Recruiter

5 Tips to Make Your LinkedIn Profile Irresistible [INFOGRAPHIC]

Our friends down at Ogilvy Social have taken a look at what makes your LinkedIn profile irresistible to visitors.

They came up with 5 key points:

Keywords in your profile – if recruiters can’t find you, they won’t hire you!
Who do you want to be seen as? People will sum up your personal brand in seconds
Tell us your story – story telling is story selling as we all know
Peek-a-boo, we see you – people are visual and will definitely judge you by your picture
Your LinkedIn URL, this will take you seconds to optimise and will look great in your email signature

Jorgen Sundberg

The original Undercover Recruiter, after 7 years in tech recruiting Jorgen now runs Link Humans, a social media marketing agency in London.

Filed Under: Infographic, LinkedIn Tagged With: Infographic, keywords, link, LinkedIn, linkedin profile, professional, Profile

Recruitment Profiling: The Hogwarts Way

(Warning: to anyone who has never read or watched the Harry Potter series, this post may not make much sense. Go and have a biscuit instead.)

Everyone who knows the Harry Potter series knows the Sorting Ceremony, where first year students are sorted into their school houses by the Sorting Hat, an ancient and powerful magical artifact. When placed on your head, it reads your mind and decides which of the four houses you would best belong to. There are numerous ‘sorting hat’ widgets online that tend to ask you a few questions and then assign you a house, but can this be turned into a viable typology for recruitment profiling? Let’s find out! [Read more...]

Andrew Fairley

Andrew Fairley has spent the last 2 years as a Recruitment Consultant, working with clients from SMEs to blue-chips, sourcing IT staff. He is currently taking an MA in Management at the University of York. You can find him on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Filed Under: Creative, Hiring, Humor, Job Search, Personal Branding, Psychology, Quote, Recruitment, Screening Tagged With: Conformity, Fun, Harry Potter, Hiring, Identity, personality, Profile, Profiling, Psychometric, recruitment, Role Expectations, Sourcing, Typology

Where Do People Look First on Your LinkedIn Profile? [VIDEO]

A heat map reveals where your visitors’ eyeballs go first when clicking on your LinkedIn profile, is it the picture, the headline, summary or experience? This video explains all. Make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel to get these videos first!

photo by: TheSeafarer

Jorgen Sundberg

The original Undercover Recruiter, after 7 years in tech recruiting Jorgen now runs Link Humans, a social media marketing agency in London.

Filed Under: LinkedIn, Video Tagged With: Headline, LinkedIn, Profile, video

How To Create a Brilliant Personal Brand on LinkedIn

Whether we are walking through town late at night, catching a train or queuing at the supermarket checkout, we make assumptions about people we don’t know: sometimes positive, sometimes negative.

When delivering my employability seminars, I often show a number of images of me. I ask the audience to shout out words they would associate with each picture. I never have to wait longer than a few seconds before people start throwing all kinds of descriptions at me. [Read more...]

Aimee Bateman

Aimee Bateman worked for some of the world's largest recruitment companies, before setting up her own consultancy. She has helped thousands of people get their dream jobs and has appeared in a number of TV programmes as the 'Recruitment Expert' on BBC 1 and BBC 3. Aimee is also the founder of Careercake.TV which is designed to help people thrive in their careers. Follow Aimee on Twitter @CareercakeTV.

Filed Under: LinkedIn, Personal Branding, Picture Tagged With: brand, LinkedIn, personal, Personal Branding, picture, Profile