Train the Trainer: LinkedIn for the Job Search

Career Level: Basic-, intermediate-, and advanced-level career services, university relations and recruiting, and business affiliate professionals
Competency: Web/social media design and management
Fee: $49 (member); $69 (nonmember);

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Summary
Chaim Shapiro, director of the Office for Student Success at Touro College, will introduce you to the new features on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is an invaluable component of the modern-day job search. LinkedIn keeps changing, and the recent changes to the LinkedIn User Interface can be confusing. Learn how to create a winning LinkedIn profile that gets you noticed. Career centers: Develop the skills you need to teach your students to successfully use these new features, identify and engage the “right” people, and employ LinkedIn’s new features as part of a well-designed job search strategy. Employers: Don’t miss this opportunity to learn LinkedIn best practices to inform your recruitment efforts!

Following this program, you will be able to:
- Participants will demonstrate proficiency in use of the new LinkedIn;
- Participants will create a LinkedIn profile that stands out; and
- Participants will learn how to teach their students how to maximize their use of LinkedIn for the job search.
Presenters

Chaim Shapiro, Executive Director: Undergraduate Career Services, Touro University
Chaim Shapiro, M.Ed., is the director of the Office for Student Success at Touro College and a freelance writer, public speaker, and social media consultant specializing in LinkedIn. He earned a master’s degree in college student personnel from Loyola University, Chicago, and studied in the institutional leadership and policy studies Ph.D. program at the University of California, Riverside Graduate School of Education. He has more than 17 years of experience working in college administration.