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To find hiring managers looking to fill jobs right now, just complete the following steps:

  • Search for “I’m hiring”
  • Add any Advanced Search filters (if desired)
    • Title = Policy or
    • School = UW Madison, La Follette, etc.

Get in touch and stay in touch with anyone on LinkedIn, just follow these steps:

Find anyone:

  • Search for their company’s email domain (e.g., Wisconsin Department of Health Services) on Hunter.io
  • Use Hunter’s suggested pattern to guess their email
  • Verify the email using Hunter’s own verification tool

Stay in touch with your contact automatically:

  • In the BCC section of your email, just add every1month@followupthen.com
  • You’ll now get a reminder email in your inbox every month

Try the Who Viewed My Profile hack:

  • Run an advanced search for the kind of people you want to engage (e.g., Professionals in public policy offices)
  • View all the profiles of the people who look interesting
  • Wait a few days and then review your Who Viewed My Profile page
  • If any of your target contacts viewed your profile, send them this message: “Thanks so much for checking out my profile! I would love to chat with you about your jobs at organization name. Any chance you have 10 minutes free next week for a quick chat?”

Try LinkedIn’s Career Explorer

  • Read the introductory demo then scroll down to get to the interactive section
  • Set your location and most recent role

If you want to stay in your current role…

  • Focus on the Skills in the left-hand column – these are the most common for your field.
  • Review your LinkedIn profile and resume for these skills.
  • If there are any missing that you can take credit for, be sure to add those in (either in the Skills section or within your bullets)

If you want to explore new roles…

  • First, sort your job matches by Similarity Score (high to low). This will give you the jobs with the most skills in common with your current role – in other words, the obvious moves that will allow you to quickly transition
  • Next, sort your job matches by Popularity Score (low to high). This will give you the jobs that have lots of skills in common but that are less obvious transitions – in other words, the roles that could be perfect for you but that you’re not likely to have uncovered.
  • As you discover jobs you’re excited about, follow these three steps to explore further:
    • Click the “Find Connections on LinkedIn” button to identify people who have these roles today. Filter by 1st degree connections, 2nd degree connections, or school alumni to find friendly folks who can share their experience with you.
    • If you like what you hear, consider clicking on some of the “Skills to Build” to explore LinkedIn Learning courses on those topics
    • And when you feel ready to apply, just click the “Find Jobs on LinkedIn” button to start going after your next dream role!

If you run into LinkedIn’s paywall, here are several options to get around it:

A hack to find the most important keywords for your profile

  1. Open up your LinkedIn profile
  2. Open up Jobscan in a separate tab
  3. Copy your whole profile (click Edit -> Select All, then Edit -> Copy)
  4. Paste it into the Jobscan resume field (remove any personally identifying information – name, email, cell, etc.)
  5. Find a job on the Hub or LinkedIn that you’re excited about
  6. Copy the job description
  7. Paste it into the Jobscan job description field
  8. Click Scan 
  9. Review the Hard Skills section to identify the keywords you’re missing
  10. Add those to the About, Experience, and Skills sections on your LinkedIn profile