People as Merchandise: Crack the Code to LinkedIn Recruitment

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People as Merchandise, with its no-nonsense pragmatic approach, is an indispensable tool for today's recruitment professionals and entrepreneurs.
BARBARA CORCORAN
Investor on ABC's 'Shark Tank'
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People as Merchandise excels where others fail. I highly recommend Josef's book to any HR and staffing manager.
HORST GALLO
Director HR at IBM
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I have read many HR books in my life but this one definitely steps out of the crowd. In a good way of course. To be crystal clear, Josef did an awesome job!
STEPAN MARZINI
Vice President HR at T-Mobile
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I have never realized that some of the methods are even possible. People as Merchandise is definitely a must-read for all recruiters.
MARTIN SCHNEIDER
Head of Permanent Placement at Adecco
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DANIELA SOUCKOVA
Head of HR at Barclays
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DAVID E. PERRY
Co-author of Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0

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Skills Check-up

An Assessment of Your LinkedIn and Recruitment Preparedness

Fill in this evaluation form consisting of fifteen questions to help you estimate how well you are prepared for social recruitment with LinkedIn. It will test your current LinkedIn® profile, networking development and necessary recruitment knowledge, as well. Based on this assessment you will be put into one of three groups where each group represents a different level of LinkedIn recruitment experience.

Take into account that such automatic assessment is not able to cover all aspects of your LinkedIn profile and knowledge, and is a bit sensitive to the specific region and niche you recruit in. Therefore, look at your results from a distance and do not take them as dogma.

LinkedIn Profile

1. Is your profile strength at All-Star level (or 100% profile completeness if you still have an older profile)? Yes No 2. How many LinkedIn recommendations do you have? 3. Do you use at least one rich media (e.g. video, presentation, audio, portfolio) on your LinkedIn profile? Yes No 4. Do you have at least 10 skills and expertise set up? Yes No

LinkedIn Networking

5. How many LinkedIn 1st degree connections do you have? 6. How many LinkedIn 3rd degree connections do you have? 7. Do you receive at least one invitation a day (i.e. approximately seven a week)? Yes No 8. Do you have at least 700 invitations left to send? Yes No

If you have your last 1,000 invitations or less, you are notified anytime you want to send an invitation. Otherwise, you still have more than 1,000 invitations.

9. How many LinkedIn groups are you member of? 10. How many LinkedIn groups, having 1,000 members at least, are you the owner of?

LinkedIn Recruitment

11. Do you use Boolean operators (at least two of them - AND, OR, NOT, quotes, parenthesis) in LinkedIn Advanced People Search? Yes No 12. Do you know how to display the full LinkedIn profile view of a 3rd degree, or out of network, connection without upgrading to a premium account? Yes No 13. Do you have at least one LinkedIn Saved Search Alert set up? Yes No 14. Do you know how to locate LinkedIn® users using Google or any other search engine, i.e. a so called X-ray search? Yes No 15. Do you have at least one extra LinkedIn profile to be used as a honey pot for monitoring the activity of your competitors? Yes No
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Skills Check-up

An Assessment of Your LinkedIn and Recruitment Preparedness

LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn Networking

LinkedIn Recruitment

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