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Maximizing LinkedIn

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LinkedIn is the most popular professional network for connecting with colleagues, advertising yourself as a candidate, and sharing content applicable to your trade. With so many people joining LinkedIn daily, it’s important to differentiate yourself with a well-organized and informative profile. The best LinkedIn profiles effectively summarize the key aspects of a user’s career and are interesting to read without providing unnecessary details. As LinkedIn becomes increasingly more important in the professional world, here are some of the most important ways you can maximize your LinkedIn profile.

Personalization

While populating your account with pertinent career information should be your primary goal when editing your LinkedIn account, select personal details make all the difference in making yourself appear more personable and interesting. For example, adding a few personal interests in your summary can serve as an easy ice-breaker for new connections eager to learn more about you.

  • A background photo to replace the dull blue stock background that we all started with can inform viewers of your current city if you post a skyline or your favorite sports team if you choose an applicable background.
  • Many companies provide free headshots to staff specifically for LinkedIn, but even if that’s not your circumstance, a headshot is worth the investment to land your profile more attention.
  • Another key detail on LinkedIn is the personal URL. On your personal page under your picture, name, and education there should be a small bar that allows you to change your stock URL to something more personable for a business card or email signature.

It’s All About The Details

In your summary, you should give an overview of your professional career complete with what you do at your current position, career ambitions, any pertinent skills, and as mentioned previously a few personal details to liven up your profile.

  • For experience, you should summarize your current position and past positions with important accomplishments, an overview of tasks performed, and whenever possible a record of quantifiable achievements (ex. annual sales total). There’s even a section for volunteer activities, which can allow you to connect with other volunteers at organizations all over the world.
  • The Education section on LinkedIn is pertinent especially to college students or recent graduates but visitors to your account will certainly pay attention to important details like your Alma Mater, activities you took part in at school, pertinent courses you took, and your GPA.

Posting and Interacting

A personalized LinkedIn account isn’t complete without regular interactions with connections.

  • Posting regularly puts your profile at the forefront of your connections’ minds and allows you to show some of your personal interests. Liking and sharing connections’ posts also shows them that you’re interested in their content.
  • You can post articles associated with your industry or you could even post open positions from Reflik, if a connection applies to the position from your link and is hired, you’ll be sent the referral reward for the hire.
  • Endorsing a connection’s skills similarly demonstrates interest and encourages them to in turn endorse you for a skill.
  • Make sure to join groups that have to do with your interests or career on LinkedIn. Type a few key words into LinkedIn search to see what’s out there and check out what your colleagues or college friends belong to on LinkedIn. Groups are a great way to show off your interests as well as find valuable new connections.

Leveraging LinkedIn

After following some of our tips for maximizing your LinkedIn, you can get started making the most of your newly edited profiled! Here are a few ways you can leverage LinkedIn to your benefit.

  • With an edited profile it will be far easier for connections to find you online or recruiters to reach out to you with new job opportunities.
  • Export your LinkedIn information into resume format or at the very least utilize it as a resource when editing your resume.
  • Post open positions from Reflik on LinkedIn and earn money when candidates that use your links are hired!
  • Advertise your business or work by posting content on LinkedIn.

Why Networkers Will Always Win in Professional Recruiting

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Recruiting is a tough business, particularly in a tight job market. The economy is improving and hiring is on the increase, meaning that companies are in need of high quality candidates for their openings. In response, professional recruiters are tasked with the tremendous task of filling corporate and technical positions. To fill these positions, professional recruiters must network effectively with decision makers and qualified candidates.

Take Advantage of Social Media Connections

Luckily for professional recruiters, sites like LinkedIn and the rise of online networking have provided incredible outlets to maximize candidate placement. Unfortunately for most people in the professional world that aren’t full-time recruiters, very few outlets allow regular people to monetize their professional and social networks. The introduction of Reflik to the world of recruiting allows everyone to take advantage of their vast networks of connections by offering great monetary rewards to those who successfully refer candidates to open positions. Reflik’s visionary service allows recruiters and individuals alike to benefit from networking well!

Without social networking, recruiters wouldn’t be able to recruit effectively and individuals wouldn’t have access to crowdsourcing technology like Reflik. Despite the outstanding convenience of most social networks, some issues do arise when recruiting via sites like LinkedIn. For example, manual messaging or posts can be tedious and ineffective. With Reflik, an automated matching algorithm matches qualified candidates with open positions, streamlining the recruiting process. Reflik’s groundbreaking technology makes recruiting more lucrative, simple, and enjoyable by simplifying the most frustrating aspects of a recruiter’s job. For example, Reflik helps recruiters by:

  • Granting access to more job postings
  • Automatically matching open jobs to database profiles and contacts
  • Generating intuitive referral posts and messages
  • Tracking applicants
  • Tracking Payments

Mobile-Ready Recruiting to Reach More Candidates

Professional recruiters and individuals can sign up and start using Reflik for free.  If a successful match is made, the employer will pay the recruiter or individual a predetermined referral reward and all of the tracking is done by Reflik.  It makes recruiting more efficient and  allows recruiting to be done as a “side” business or as a source of  full-time income.

In addition, Reflik is “mobile” ready – meaning it can be done “on-the-fly”.  Recruiters can access more candidates who spend most of their internet time on a mobile device.  Reflik also helps recruiters to reach more of those “passive” candidates – who are often hard to reach but may provide the best match.

In today’s world of social media – with over 70 percent of adults on social media –recruiters’ jobs have never been easier with such a wide array of networks.   Reflik automates much of the process, giving the professional recruiter a whole box of tools that were unavailable before. Check out how Reflik works and become one of our successful Independent Recruiters.

by Ash Geria

Pew Research Center, (09 January 2015), Social Media Update 2014, Pew Research Center, retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/01/09/social-media-update-2014/

How Reflik is Disrupting the Recruiting Industry

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Since the dawn of the 21st century, technology has drastically improved healthcare, transportation, and communication but certain industries like recruiting have remained relatively untouched. Mobile connectivity and more accessible job boards have certainly helped but they haven’t opened up recruiting fully to the general public. With the introduction of Reflik to the recruiting world, anyone now has the ability to refer qualified candidates to exciting positions in exchange for referral rewards. Reflik’s disruption of recruiting benefits employers, recruiters, job seekers, and the general public!

For Employers

Most employers know that the best new hires come through referrals.  The problem is that there aren’t enough referrals from in-house recruiting programs.  A company’s employees can refer their friends but they may not know about many of the jobs that are open in the company – particularly in different departments or at different locations.  Company referral programs often don’t offer enough incentive for their employees to “look” very hard for new candidates.  Reflik disrupts the process – providing employees greater incentive and opening up the process to our members – giving the employer an exponential increase in potential candidates for less than the cost of using a recruiter.

For Recruiters

Recruiters are great at recruiting – but they are often limited by the need to manually find job listings – some of which they may not have access to.  Sorting through candidate lists to match known job openings to candidate lists takes time, contacting potential applicants takes time, and tracking the process and progress of the applicant’s progress takes time.  Reflik disrupts the process – providing the recruiter with more job listings and automating the process through our matching algorithm and contact system and by tracking the progress of the applicant at every step of the way.  Recruiters can save time, find more jobs and focus on what they do best – recruiting more applicants.

For Job Seekers and Members

Our members have access to potentially hundreds of job seekers in their social networks.  Reflik is where social media meets recruiting. Some of these are “active” job seekers – but some are “passive” job seekers who might take a better job if they were referred to it.  Our automatic matching algorithm compares social media profiles to our job listings – and identifies matches which can be referred by our members.  The members who refer successful candidates are rewarded with a substantial referral fee.  We are disruptive because our referral reward is “real money” with an average of $5000, and matching and referring is easy.

Reflik is “disrupting” the traditional job search and recruiting industry with new, revolutionary ideas.  The job market will never be the same.

Another incredible perk of Reflik is that it is open to everyone regardless of experience in the recruiting world! Reflik is free for members, job seekers, recruiters, and  employers to sign up and use.  The only time money exchanges hands is when a successful candidate is found and the referral fee is paid.  Employers win by gaining access to exponentially more candidates at a much lower cost than recruiting services or multiple job board postings.  The recruiter wins by gaining access to more job listings and automated time-saving systems.  The job seekers and members win by easily finding jobs and getting paid for referring their friends and contacts.

Check out how Reflik works!

by Ash Geria

How Referring Jobs to Friends Can Make you Real Money

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It’s always great referring jobs to good friends.  While the appreciation of your friend is welcome, it’s even better if you can get paid for doing it.

At Reflik, we give you a way to do both at the same time – help your friends find great new jobs and put some real cash in your pocket through our referral program.  Our rewards are real cash – an average of $7,000.

Many companies have in-house referral programs where employees can earn a referral fee when they help the company find a new employee.  These programs are great but they are very limited because:

– They only work for employees – you have to work at the company to use them

– They only work for the company’s openings – they have to be for a job at your company

– You may not know about a lot of open jobs outside of your department – you may know about the open desk next to you but may not even know about the open desks across the hall

– You may not know about open jobs at other locations – most of the time, hiring managers are focused on one location – yours, but there may be jobs at other company offices that don’t get your attention

– Referral fees usually aren’t very big – most company referral fees are less than $500, sometimes a lot less.

Reflik gives you the opportunity to make real cash and it works for all of your social connections, in all of your networks, at any of the companies that have jobs listed with us.  Reflik can make you real money through our:

Automatic Matching Algorithm

After you become a Reflik member, our matching algorithm will compare your social media connections to our job listings.  When a match is made, Reflik can send an email with a unique link directly to your connection (with your permission of course).  If your connection clicks on the link and gets a new job – you get the referral reward.

Send Direct Messages

Rather than using our automated email, you can use our algorithm to identify your connections that match a particular job and capture the link yourself.  You can send the job posting to your friends through direct messaging on your social media networks or you can post it to their page.  If they click and get hired – you get the referral reward.  If they pass it on to another connection, you still get a share of the referral reward.

Leverage your Social Media

You can also search through the job listings yourself and have a link generated for posting on your social networks – through Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or LinkedIn.  Anyone who uses your link to apply for a job and gets hired is credited to you – and you still get the referral reward. Here is how to get the most out of your social media profiles.

The average referral reward is $5000, which is real money.  Imagine what you could do with an extra $5000 – imagine double, triple or even ten times that!

You have lots of connections – and they have lots of connections – and they have lots of connections and each time your link is used to help someone get a job, you get paid.  Capitalize on your connections, find jobs for your friends and make money – all at the same time.

Start earning REAL cash by signing up for free!

By Ashish Vachhani

Where Social Media Meets the Future of Recruitment

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Because of corporate belt-tightening, many companies have been forced to cut back on external hiring resources.  This means their internal resources are stretched thin, stressed out, and may be falling short on finding enough of the right candidates.  The good news is that employers now have access to an efficient way to find the best employees in a cost effective manner – Reflik, the future of recruitment.

While most employers agree that referrals are the best source of qualified candidates, internal referral programs may not be as effective as companies need.  A company’s employees may only know a few people looking or even willing to consider a job move.

They may also not be aware of jobs in other company locations and many company recruiting programs don’t have a comprehensive referral program that makes it easy for employees to learn about job openings and they may be limited to knowledge about openings in their department or at their location.  In addition, many internal recruiting programs just don’t offer enough incentive.

Maximize Investment & Capitalize on High-Quality Candidates

Reflik is the best way for company recruiting managers to maximize their investment – and capitalize on the high quality of candidates identified through referrals at the same time – garnering the benefits of:

  • Employees who have a better “fit” with the company culture
  • Shorter “time-to-hire”
  • Employees who are more likely to stay longer

Reflik works through social networking with no risk to the employer.  The employer posts a job opening with a prospective referral reward and our members can refer that job to their social connections on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or even through email.  The job can also be referred to connections of connections in an exponential fashion.  This mean the employer has access to a much larger candidate pool, a state-of-the-art applicant tracking system, and only when a hire is made through Reflik, does the employer pay the fee.

Access to Many Professional Recruiters

Employers also have access to a number of professional recruiters who use the Reflik platform – with the same posted reward fee which even at the average reward of $10,000, is still substantially lower than traditional professional recruiting services.  Employers also find that the savings in job board posting fees, internal recruiting hours and candidate tracking makes Reflik efficient and cost-effective.

In addition, a company’s own employees can still use the Reflik platform – just the same as any user but the employee will be able to see all of a company’s job openings and use our automatic matching algorithm to identify their social connections that may qualify as a referral, and that’s not the only perk of Reflik’s talent crowdsourcing platform.

Reflik is set to revolutionize the recruiting field – and with at least three-fourths of all Americans already on social media, it is the future of recruitment. Both employers and recruiters benefit tremendously by leveraging social media contacts and social media recruiting!  Reflik isn’t taking the people out of recruiting but we are dramatically increasing the effectiveness of those people and finding better candidates, faster and more efficiently.

Join the Reflik revolution by posting a job for free today!

Five Ways for Recruiters to Quickly Earn More Money

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Recruiting can be a lucrative profession – but it can also be a hassle.  You have a resume database full of current and past contacts, you have your LinkedIn network and all of your other social media contacts.  You have job boards, company notifications and professional groups that may post jobs.  Up until now, you have had to go through your lists and match those jobs you know about with your own contacts.

Some of those contacts may be active job seekers who have reached out to you recently.  Others have used you as a recruiter in the past but a lot of your work is cold-calling and tedious matching.  You have to manually compare job listings to your database and contact lists – and you have to spend a lot of time getting new contacts, trying to get referrals or cold-contacting, hoping for a magical match.  In addition, even though you may have a few direct avenues or exclusive relationships, a lot of job listings are unavailable to you.

Just like everyone else, you are in business to make money. Here are five ways to earn more money quickly, making your job easier with Reflik.

Gain Access to More Job Listings

You haven’t always been able to get to all the job listings out there.  With Reflik, you have access to all of our jobs and can use your contacts for more of those listings.  It doesn’t take as much time and you don’t have to go through your database or contact list manually.  When you have access to more jobs and matching is faster – you earn your referral reward quicker.  In addition, you don’t even have to generate the contact letter if you don’t want.  Reflik can contact the potential candidate and track the process for you.

Tap into Resume Database Matching

Reflik operates on a game-changing algorithm which matches candidates in your database to Reflik’s job listings.  Our algorithm works to increase your efficiency by doing your matching automatically, without a lot of tedious searching and comparing, that you have previously had to do with your own eyes.  It can save you a lot of time and energy – to match current job-seekers and those passive job-seekers that can be so hard to reach.

Leverage LinkedIn Contacts

Reflik can do the same with your LinkedIn contacts and give you an advantage that you didn’t have before.  You can offer referrals though direct messaging and when you find potential new matches, you can send the job referral through In Mail.  You can also post a job directly to members of any of the groups you belong to.  Any way you look at it, Reflik can help you utilize LinkedIn in a more efficient and more lucrative manner.

Utilize Your Other Social Media Accounts

As a recruiter, you may reserve certain social media sites for personal use.  But even if you do, there are probably a few business associates out there – and you use others.  Reflik works through all the social media sites you may be using – Facebook, Google+ and Twitter.  On any of these sites, you can refer a job directly to one of your contacts or you can get a lot of traction with an open post on Google+, Facebook and Twitter.  You may even find that you want to ramp up your activity on those sites – just because of the opportunities that Reflik offers.

List the Jobs you Know About

If you do have some of those  direct avenues which have given you an advantage in the past over other recruiters, you can still use those on Reflik.  In addition to using Reflik as an independent recruiter, you can sign up (still free) as an “employer” and offer any direct-line jobs that you know about to Reflik members.  You decide the reward you want to offer for our members and if one of their referrals gets the job, you pay the reward – but you collect your direct reward from the employer same as always.  Essentially, you are splitting your payment – but you have exponentially widened your audience and can work faster and better – which makes you a recruiting star for that business and makes you likely to get more “exclusive” listings.

No matter how you look at it, using Reflik is a win for you.  There is no cost, no downside and the average reward is $10,000+.  You can find more candidate matches to more jobs, faster.  Isn’t that what you want – to make fast cash? Signup takes only a few minutes and is FREE!