#66 - Mirroring Job Postings

The new Jobseeking is Hard is out now!

Congrats to the 20 winners of our LinkedIn Premium trial giveaway last weekend! That’s 220 3-month LinkedIn Premium trial memberships we’ve given out this year to help you get networking in 2024!

Thanks to all the winners who’ve emailed me to tell me how their job search has benefitted from the memberships. Networking is vital to the job search, so I’m glad the memberships are being used! Looking for info on how to leverage LinkedIn for your job search? Click on the “LinkedIn” tag on our homepage to read all of our LinkedIn advice.

If anyone has any ideas for giveaways, send an email to [email protected] and let me know what you think would be helpful! And keep an eye out here, on my LinkedIn, and my Twitter for future giveaways!

This week I'm talking about ways you can focus your resume on relevancy, including:

• Whether or not you should include a side hustle or your own company on your resume.
• What biases hiring managers or recruiters might have about your side hustle/LLC.

And for Premium Subscribers, I'm discussing:

• How to call attention to experience relevant to the job posting, when it isn’t at your current/most recent job.
• When you shouldn't include your side hustle on your resume.
• Why I don’t like the “Career Break” option on LinkedIn.
• Who can really benefit from including side hustles on the resume.
• And in “Debunking Career Clickbait,” I’m debunking advice about declaring being #OpenToWork on LinkedIn.

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Don't forget about:

• Stupid Interview Questions (treating your employees like family IS the Hunger Games).
• A jobseeking horror story about an interviewer who may or may not have had something in their eye.
• A warning about a job scam involving "ATS-compliant resumes."
• And a job board with ~2,000 HR/Recruiting roles, including 300+ remote opportunities.

Check out Issue #66 here: https://www.jobseekingishard.com/p/66-mirroring-job-postings

SHAMELESS PLUG!

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Who knows…maybe it can help you rethink your value and find confidence like it did for this person ??

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