Boost Your Career and Income Prospects with Expert LinkedIn Tips

NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast

NerdWallet Personal Finance

Business, Education, Investing, How To

4.2 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Learn how to optimize your LinkedIn profile to enhance your job and income prospects with tips from LinkedIn’s Andrew McCaskill. What are recruiters looking for on LinkedIn? What’s the best way to optimize your LinkedIn profile? Hosts Sean Pyles and Alana Benson discuss LinkedIn optimization and professional growth to help you understand how to leverage the platform for career success. They begin with a discussion of LinkedIn optimization, with tips and tricks on highlighting essential skills, sharing engaging content, and maintaining regular engagement on the platform. Then, Andrew McCaskill, a senior director and career expert at LinkedIn, joins the show to discuss maximizing job opportunities on LinkedIn. He discusses the surprising benefits of setting up job alerts, nurturing professional connections, and using relevant keywords to enhance visibility in recruiters' searches. In their conversation, they also delve into crucial aspects of career growth and safety on LinkedIn, including how to identify red flags for job scams, understand companies' commitments to diversity and inclusion, and have open conversations about salary transparency. In their conversation, the Nerds discuss: LinkedIn optimization, job search, professional networking, income boost, career growth, LinkedIn profile, job alerts, recruiter tips, LinkedIn insights, skills summary, career advancement, professional connections, salary transparency, job scams, LinkedIn features, profile keywords, hard skills, soft skills, diversity and inclusion, resume optimization, salary negotiation, Glassdoor, Elpha, job applications, AI tools, cover letters, LinkedIn engagement, professional visibility, career potential, job referrals, LinkedIn safety, LinkedIn content, wage estimates, LinkedIn job hunting, LinkedIn networking, career decisions, compensation conversation, job market, and LinkedIn profile photos. To send the Nerds your money questions, call or text the Nerd hotline at 901-730-6373 or email [email protected]. Like what you hear? Please leave us a review and tell a friend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.5	Spending a few hours on LinkedIn isn't many people's idea of a good time.
0:35.1	But if you use the networking site effectively, it can pay off.
0:38.6	Optimizing your profile is one of the ways to work toward boosting your income by making
0:42.5	you an attractive candidate for a new job. I think that the number one thing that I would say to
0:47.1	folks, if you're trying to make your profile more visible and more searchable, is over 40%
0:53.1	of recruiters say that they are searching for talent
0:56.9	based on skills. And so you really have to put your skills in your summary and use skills and
1:03.6	skills language. Welcome to NerdWallets Smart Money Podcast. I'm Sean Piles. And I'm Alana Benson.
1:12.4	This is episode two of our nerdy deep dive into what we're calling investing in your income.
1:17.5	This is a series about the different ways that you can look at boosting your bottom line by bringing in more money, instead of trying to do that only by cutting your spending.
1:25.5	So, Sean, in our last episode, we outlined why this is important.
1:29.5	Cutting your expenses can only get you so far.
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