LinkedIn has launched a series of new tools that allow users of the well-known professional social network to carry out their job search in a more effective way, which makes them more likely to be found by recruiters and human resources managers.
As the company itself has assured, the objective of these new functions is that community members can help each other in a situation as complex as the one that is currently occurring due to the coronavirus pandemic. Therefore, it is important to take into account a number of key aspects.
The new LinkedIn tools
LinkedIn has new tools to be able to enjoy greater possibilities of getting a job on the platform. Here we talk in more detail about these new tools:
New "Open to Work" frame in profile photo
LinkedIn You want it to be easier for your social network users to show other people who may know that you are looking for work or that they would be interested in receiving new job proposals. For this, it has launched the possibility of including a frame in the profile photo with a hashtag and a text that indicates that it is open to job applications. In this way, this frame can be added to the existing photograph on the social network.
The user himself has the possibility to choose whether he wants all LinkedIn members to be able to see this frame in the profile or only recruiters, that is, people who have a Premium account such as LinkedIn Recruiters.
This way works in a similar way to the one that did previously the function that made professionals could indicate in their profile that they are willing to change jobs and this will arrive as a notification to other contacts. In fact, in this case, the frame will be available to view both when you are inside the profile and when a comment is made on a content published on the professional social network.
To activate frame active job search, you just have to go to your User profile in the social network, for later, in the menu under the photograph, click on Show recruiters that you are open to work. From there you will be able to complete the preferences of place, type of employment, and so on. Then you can click on choose who can see that you are open to work and you can proceed to choose the setting to be able to enjoy it and make it much more obvious that you are actively searching for a new job.
Publications «Willing to help»
On the other hand, it has also included in the text box of the platform the possibility of enabling the option called Willing to help. By clicking on it, users can make a publication indicating that in this way that person is willing to collaborate with other members of the community.
To do this, what it does is add a hashtag to the end of the content that indicates it.
Support reaction
LinkedIn It also has its own reactions, as with other social networks such as Facebook, so that you can respond to user posts in a different way than a simple "like".
In this way, LinkedIn decided to update itself in this regard, offering other options for reactions that expand the possibilities of interaction by users.
Linked In will allow you to record the pronunciation of your name
Pronouncing a name well is not always easy, which often makes mistakes when referring to another person, especially when it is a person from another country and in whose language the name can vary much than it can. look.
For this reason, LinkedIn is introducing different enhancements, which will allow users to add a 10-second audio recording of the pronunciation of their name. In this way, other users will be able to listen to the audio clip by clicking on the button in the member's profile. In this way it is possible to clarify how the name is pronounced so that everyone knows how it is pronounced in the right way.
LinkedIn Product Manager Joseph Akoni spoke about it and the reason for implementing this new functionality: "Everyone, including myself, we make mistakes when we pronounce other people's names. This has been something personal, because of my middle name of Nigerian origin, hardly anyone pronounces it right the first time.
In order to make use of this feature, it is necessary to save the name on a mobile device, either with an Android or IOS operating system, although to be able to listen to it you can play it both from a mobile device and from the desktop version of the well-known professional social network .