759: How to Make the Most of LinkedIn and Get Hired with Jeremy Schifeling
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Jeremy Schifeling walks you through the ins and outs of LinkedIn and how you can make it work for you and your career.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The top thing on your profile that you need to focus on
2) How to get a ton of LinkedIn connections fast
3) The simple thing that boosts your odds of getting hired by 10x
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— ABOUT JEREMY —
Jeremy Schifeling has devoted his career to helping students succeed in theirs. From recruiting top students at Teach For America to leading student marketing for LinkedIn, he’s touched the lives of millions of people just starting their journeys. Along the way, he’s published a top-selling book on job applications, served as the University of Michigan’s tech career coach, and produced the most-viewed video in LinkedIn’s history. He currently leads teacher outreach efforts at Khan Academy and shares his thoughts on Break into Tech, a site for anyone who wants to launch a tech career.
• Book: Linked: Conquer LinkedIn. Get Your Dream Job. Own Your Future.
• Website: LinkedInGuys.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: The 2-Hour Job Search: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster by Steve Dalton
• LinkedIn video: Your Career Starts Here
• Tool: Jobscan
• Tool: FollowUpThen
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.5 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.1 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdest. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 759 with Jeremy Sheepling. |
| 0:23.8 | Jeremy worked in LinkedIn and now is outside of LinkedIn but he continues to share a boatload |
| 0:29.0 | of LinkedIn wisdom. |
| 0:30.0 | So you'll learn how to make the most of the platform to get hired, get opportunities |
| 0:36.5 | flowing your way, be seen, all that good stuff. |
| 0:39.1 | So you'll learn one, the top thing on your profile that you need to focus on. |
| 0:42.7 | Two, how to get a ton of LinkedIn connections fast. |
| 0:45.5 | And three, the simple thing that boosts your odds of getting hired by 10X. |
| 0:50.8 | That's 10 times, if you will. |
| 0:52.9 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that |
| 0:55.8 | we mentioned here, you can find it over at awesome at your job.com slash EP 759. |
| 1:01.9 | And if you're at awesome at your job.com, check out some goodies such as our Golden |
| 1:05.8 | Nugget email list, which provides actionable write up of the summary wisdom that Jeremy |
| 1:11.6 | shares as well as unlocks the vault of all 759 of those such summaries. |
| 1:16.4 | That's called the Golden Nuggets at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:19.2 | Now here's Jeremy's story. |
| 1:20.5 | Jeremy has devoted his career to helping students succeed in theirs from recruiting top students |
| 1:24.5 | at Teach for America, to leading student marketing for LinkedIn. |
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