How to expand your alumni network through LinkedIn - Sterling Career Concepts

How to expand your alumni network through LinkedIn How to expand your alumni network through LinkedIn A fellow resume writer, Laura Smith-Proulx, CCMC, CPRW, CIC, recently shared with me how easy it is for job seekersto utilize LinkedIn to search for alums who are also hiring managers in their field and I wanted to pass it ontoall of you! Once youre logged on to LinkedIn: Perform an Advanced People Search(at the top of nearly every page). In the search criteria, add manager (or director) as a keyword. Select the desired industry from the list to the right. Scroll down a bit and addyourschool name. Leave all other fields blank unless youd like to zero in ona geographic area, which you can limit by distance around a zip code. Depending on your search parameters,your results mayincludehundreds, if not thousands, of managers names. Youcan then findcorporate mailing addressesand directcorrespondencepersonally to selectedmanagers. Happy networking!