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How to get a job to find you | Start-Up Black Ops
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How to get a job to find you. January 14, 2015. If you’ve ever read my last post. Step 1: Prepare resume(s) for job board services. For each online profile. You can have all of the mailboxes forwarded to a main address, but the point is to know where each inquiry originated from. Once you’ve uploaded your finished resume(s), let’s work on tracking the communication and opportunities. Step 2: Set up your own personal CRM. Log notes of any conversation with a recruiter about a credible opportunity. I found...
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How to get the most out of conferences and networking events, Part 2 | Start-Up Black Ops
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How to get the most out of conferences and networking events, Part 2. April 4, 2014. Let’s shift gears from Part 1. Make your own booth. If you don’t have a complex set up, what you can do is basically partner with another exhibitor and share their space (and also the cost). I would first go through your warm network and find your other start-up friends and pitch them on this mutual cooperation. If the prospect of that isn’t likely, then you will have to approach people cold. The point is, there are plen...
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How to grow your LinkedIn network rapidly in a few months | Start-Up Black Ops
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How to grow your LinkedIn network rapidly in a few months. June 15, 2014. LinkedIn favors the well-connected. Although you could theoretically power through the creative phases. In one sitting, this part you will have to exercise patience and consistency. Depending on how many connections you start with, this may not take a lot of time at all, but if you are completely new with 0 connections, prepare for a timeline of at least a few months. Outbound method to kickstart building your LinkedIn network.
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Inbound method to passively grow your LinkedIn network | Start-Up Black Ops
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Inbound method to passively grow your LinkedIn network. June 15, 2014. The first rule of thumb for inbound is to accept any connection request, and try your best to avoid connecting with bots or spammers (you may get more annoying marketing messages than usual, but their connections are still useful). Max out your groups. Please subscribe to stay connected. The following two tabs change content below. Latest posts by Jonathan Wang ( see all. How to get a job to find you. January 14, 2015. June 15, 2014.
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Outbound method to kickstart building your LinkedIn network | Start-Up Black Ops
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Outbound method to kickstart building your LinkedIn network. June 15, 2014. If you’ve ever tried LinkedIn’s suggestion of allowing them to import and invite your email contacts to no avail, then this method is for you. This is the safest and most reliable way to kickstart the network building process to 500 quickly without jeopardizing your account and having LinkedIn annoy all of your contacts with unwanted invite spam. You can also buy lists off of Fiverr.com, for as many as 10K at $5 each. 8211; Go to...
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How to improve your connection success rates on LinkedIn | Start-Up Black Ops
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How to improve your connection success rates on LinkedIn. June 15, 2014. Now that you have a working profile. Reusable Templates are Key. Invite to Connect, Same Industry. I found your profile intriguing and would like to connect on our common industry interests. At your convenience, it would be great to learn more about your work and experience. If my expertise or network can be of value to you in any way, don’t hesitate to let me know. Invite to Connect, Recruiter/Headhunter. 8211; I’d like to ad...
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A Winning Mentality for Prospecting | Start-Up Black Ops
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A Winning Mentality for Prospecting. March 14, 2014. Now, the first thing to realize is that prospecting is a numbers game. You must come to terms with the simple fact that the vast majority of people you contact (even if you have the right target market) WILL NOT want to talk to you. Once you’ve realized and embraced this, you can set your expectations and take a more thoughtful, scientific approach. I’m so and so. My company makes this and that. 8230;and I’d love to talk to you to discuss such and such.
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How to optimize your LinkedIn profile | Start-Up Black Ops
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How to optimize your LinkedIn profile. June 15, 2014. Now that you know what can be achieved. With LinkedIn, lets start at the top and work our way down, starting with profile optimization. Filling out every section and painstaking detail as LinkedIn suggests won’t be entirely necessary (its actually better to make minor adjustments over time) but the goal here is to increase the odds of showing up in the search results of the people you want to do . Are you trying to get a job? Make it easier for people...
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How to get the most out of conferences and networking events, Part 1 | Start-Up Black Ops
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How to get the most out of conferences and networking events, Part 1. March 14, 2014. Make a list of people you want to meet beforehand. Make a reference sheet. Rehearse your story forwards and backwards. Only after you’ve prepared the package that is yourself, your story, and your targets does it make sense to work on optimizing the actual event experience. Stay tuned for the next post, Part 2. Where I will reveal these tactics in-depth. Image: Greg Baker/Associated Press. How to get a job to find you.
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What Reid Hoffman does NOT want you to know about LinkedIn | Start-Up Black Ops
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What Reid Hoffman does NOT want you to know about LinkedIn. June 15, 2014. We do the opposite of what Reid Hoffman says. But with LinkedIn’s glaring business model of making money through job postings, I’m not surprised. LinkedIn is just not set up to work for you. What can I really get out of LinkedIn? You can make LinkedIn work for you, and here are some of the things you can accomplish:. Find any professional, get their contact information and reach out to them for any business purpose. Assuming I sti...
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