By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
I offer possible answers AND a way to actually get the answer from the recruiters.
How to Get More Interviews: Meet More People
I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. I coach people; I do career coaching, leadership coaching. I’m the head coach for jobsearchcoachinghq.com and no BS coaching advice com. What I do is work one-on-one with people or through my website jobsearchcoachinghq.com or no BS coaching advice com to help people be more effective in their careers. In my one-on-one work, I help people streamline the job search, I answer their questions, I prepare them forensic views, I help them with negotiations, I teach them what’s necessary to find work. And once they were on board, I help them be very effective. If someone asked the question, “their recruiters who are looking at my profile on LinkedIn but not contacting me, why is that?” The answer is, well, there’s no simple answer. I’m going to start with the solution and then answer your question. The solution is to reply back to them and/or message them, I should say, and say, “LinkedIn told me that you looked at my profile. Was there anything in particular you were looking for, the like at address?”
Let’s connect, and then from there, wait for their response, and then you’ll learn the specifics of their circumstances. Usually there are a couple of reasons why they decided not to connect. The most obvious thing is you didn’t fit what they were looking for. Now sometimes the issue is they didn’t structure the search properly on their side, excuse me. So for example, you’ve got a LinkedIn recruiter account and you’re looking for a permanent manager with 15 years of experience with particular technology skills, and you don’t take the time to look or to narrow this search criteria to to one of the options which might be 10 to 15 years of experience and thus you get
search results back for programmers or software developers who obviously don’t fit this job. But you know, you look at the profile, make that determination, see if they are connected to someone who might be a program manager because LinkedIn also offers the option of you know, trying to see who you’re connected with, who others have also looked at as well, in the right-hand column. And thus, they’re not really looking for you, or if they find you and determine you’re not a fit, they’re trying to bounce this someone else who might be closer to a fit. That’s one reason. The second reason is, let’s assume that they don’t have a recruiter account and all their secondary tools are not making it possible for them to message you. So they’re not taking the time to call you. They’d rather send you an in mail, and you’re not worth the effort of doing that. So recognize that if you put your email address in the summary section of your LinkedIn profile, they’re taking away that possibility. Yes, if they were connected to you, they’d have access to you, but they had not connected with you or connected to you, so they don’t have access to that. It’s a second thing. The third thing is a variation on the first: they made a mistake. They might have entered the wrong source terms, realized that, and so it goes. Those are the big ones.
But the best thing I’m offering you was the solution to this: message them. Tell them that LinkedIn told me that you looked at my profile. Let’s connect. Was there something that was missing when you were looking for that like it addressed? Hope you found this helpful. And again, if you’re interested in one-on-one coaching from me, connect with me on LinkedIn at LinkedIn.com/ai on forward slash the big game arm. And once you’re connected to me, message me and let’s set up a time to speak. Hope you have a great day.
Take care.
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