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Learn how to find and contact recruiters on LinkedIn while building a stronger profile for a tech or data analyst job search. This practical career tutorial walks through setting your job preferences, choosing who can see that you’re open to work, and adding the titles, skills, experience, education, and resume details recruiters use to discover candidates. It also demonstrates how to find recruiters at a company with an open data analyst role, apply relevant LinkedIn filters, and send a brief, polite message about the position. The approach is straightforward: make your profile easier to find, reach out to a few relevant recruiters, and stay persistent without expecting every message to receive a reply. A bonus tip covers finding local technical staffing agencies through Google, while noting that LinkedIn is the more streamlined option. For anyone exploring entry-level data analytics jobs, tech careers, or a career change, this guide offers actionable job-search steps. Find LinkedIn recruiter tips, recruiter outreach message examples, data analyst job search advice, and practical networking strategies for connecting with hiring teams and technical recruiters.
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00:00What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to another video. Today, I'm going to show you
00:03how you can find and work with recruiters on LinkedIn.
00:12Working with a recruiter is one of the fastest ways to land a job in tech, and LinkedIn is a
00:16fantastic platform to work with recruiters. Now, on LinkedIn, there's two different ways that you
00:20can get connected with a recruiter. The first is that they reach out to you, and the second is you
00:24reach out to them. So let's jump over to my screen, and I'm going to show you how to do
00:27both.
00:28All right, so we are looking at my actual LinkedIn page here, and I'm going to show you the first
00:31way, which is having recruiters reach out to you. This is by far the simplest and the easiest way
00:35to work with a recruiter, where they're basically going to reach out to us. So what we're going to
00:39do is come right over here to open two. We're going to click on this, and if we scroll down,
00:44we have a few different options. We have finding a job, providing services, and hiring. Now,
00:49what we're going to be doing is trying to find a job. So let's click on that, and then it's
00:53going
00:53to ask us quite a bit of information. The first thing that you want is to add a job title.
00:57Now,
00:57for us, it'd be things like data analyst, maybe a healthcare analyst, because I work in healthcare,
01:04so I'll say healthcare analyst, and then you could add others like a business analyst,
01:08marketing analyst, financial analyst, and the list goes on. After you do that, you can select
01:12what type of location you want, whether it needs to be on-site, hybrid, or remote. Now,
01:17if you do select remote, you still need to put in a location. Now, your location actually does
01:22matter even if you are remote. The reason being is that sometimes there are laws for the state
01:26or for the country that their company can't comply with, and so they won't be able to hire
01:29in certain areas, so they need to know where you live. Or if you're on-site, like right up here,
01:34they need to know that you're actually in the location that they're hiring for.
01:37After that, we can scroll down. We're going to put our start date, whether we can start
01:40immediately, or we're just flexible and casually looking. Then we can select full-time,
01:44part-time, contract, internship, or temporary. For us, it's most likely going to be full-time
01:49or contract. And then lastly, and this is an important one, you can decide who can see this.
01:53And so you can either show everybody, which is going to include people who you work with,
01:57potentially your manager that you currently have, or you can just show recruiters. Now,
02:01for me, I've almost always done recruiters only so that people who I'm currently working with
02:06don't go and tell my boss or my manager that, hey, Alex is looking for another job.
02:10After that, all you're going to do is click save, and then you'll be good to go.
02:14Now, that is a fantastic step in the right direction, but you really still need to work
02:17on your profile just a little bit. The way that a recruiter is going to find you and reach out
02:20to you
02:21is by searching specific keywords. So maybe for me, they're looking for someone who's in the
02:25Charleston area, who is a data analyst and knows SQL. Now, when they actually find my profile,
02:29they're going to come and visit my profile before they actually send me a message.
02:33So there are a few things that I want you to have on here. You definitely need a profile picture.
02:37This one's very old. I definitely should update this. I just haven't. But there's a few other
02:42things that you need. You definitely need to have at least a few posts in here. You don't have to
02:46be
02:46a content creator or anything like that, but just have something to fill up this area with some
02:51posts with achievements or, you know, something interesting. Then you should have an about
02:56section, just a little bit about who you are and what you're looking for. And then lastly,
03:00experience and education. Now, if you don't have experience, you don't need to add it,
03:04but you definitely at least need your education in there. And probably the most important part of
03:09this entire thing is your skills section. When recruiters are hitting off those keywords,
03:12a lot of times it's for skills. And so you need to come in here and add in your skills.
03:17Now I have a bunch in here and some of them are repetitive, things like Python and Microsoft SQL
03:22server. If I scroll down, I know for a fact, I have other types of SQL in here. Here we
03:28go.
03:28Like transact SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL. And so whichever one they're searching for,
03:32I should come up in the results. So it's just a friendly tip. You definitely want to have your
03:35whole profile set up. My very last tip for your profile is that you can come over here to this
03:40more and you're going to click on it and you can build a resume here. You can actually upload
03:45your resume that recruiters can see before they actually ask you to send it to them. So like I
03:49said, that's kind of the more passive way. You're just going to wait for recruiters to reach out to
03:53you. But if you want to actively be applying, you want to actively be reaching out to recruiters.
03:57I'm going to show you how to do that as well. So let's go over to this job section and
04:01let's see
04:01what we can find. So let's go to data analyst and let's scroll down and see what we find. It
04:07could be
04:07any company. Never heard of this one, but this is a senior data analyst role at Jobot. Never heard of
04:15it, but let's go ahead and click on it. And let's say this was a job I wanted to apply
04:19for. So they
04:19have this data analyst job. I'm going to apply for it, but then I'm going to go one step further.
04:23I'm going to reach out to a recruiter who works at the company. So all we have to do to
04:27find a
04:28recruiter that works at Jobot, which maybe you've heard of it. I have not. We're going to go over to
04:33people. And then what we can do is we can actually filter on these employees so we can choose where
04:38they live. And let's say I want to reach out to someone who lives in the U.S. like me,
04:41and then
04:42I can scroll over and we can choose recruiting. So we have right here. So what are they skilled at?
04:49And here we have recruiting. So I'm going to select recruiting and you can filter by a bunch of other
04:54things. Maybe you want to find somebody who may have gone to the same college as you and have that
04:57personal connection. So there's a bunch of other filters that you can look at, but then we scroll
05:03down and all of these people are going to be recruiters at this company. So what I would do
05:08if I was really serious about this position is I would reach out to two or maybe three of them
05:11and send them a message. So what we're going to do, so we're just going to come right over here.
05:15Here's Denise. We're going to shoot her a message. And our message is basically going to be,
05:19Hey, I saw this position open at your company. I'm extremely interested. I love what your company does.
05:24I'd love to learn more about the position and your company. In the description,
05:27I'll put something that you can just copy and paste for these types of messages.
05:30They'll be really short and to the point as well as very polite. So we're not going to actually
05:34message Denise, but this is exactly how you can find them. And again, you can filter this down
05:38even further. You can message a lot of recruiters or just one recruiter. Now here's what I will say
05:42about reaching out to recruiters is that typically you're only going to get about a 10 to 20% response
05:47rate on all of the messages that you send. This is kind of a numbers game. So it's kind of
05:51a game
05:51of persistence. This is something that I have a lot of personal experience with. I've done this for many
05:55years and it really works, but just don't expect every single recruiter that you reach out to to
06:00actually message you back. Now that's how you can work with a recruiter on LinkedIn, but I'm going
06:04to show you just one kind of bonus tip, which is how you can find a recruiter in your area
06:08and reach
06:08out to them. So I'm going to come up here to Google and all I'm going to type is I'm
06:12looking for a
06:13certain area and I'm looking for technical recruiters. Now I don't live in a huge metropolitan
06:17area anymore, but before I used to live in Dallas, I lived there for over five years and that's where
06:21I got
06:22my first data analyst job. So I'm going to search there for technical recruiters. I'm going to say
06:26data analyst, technical recruiters, Dallas, Texas. And what I'm going to do is I'm not going to go up
06:32here to the jobs. I'm going to go down to the businesses. And it looks like we have a few
06:37here
06:37and I'm going to check out this GTN technical staffing and I'm going to click on their website.
06:42Now, as you can see, just at a glance, these are technical recruiters and I'm going to go ahead
06:46and contact them. You can kind of do some more research, see what jobs they have open,
06:50but I'm just going to send them my name, my email, my phone number that I'm a candidate
06:55and then my resume right here so that they can then see if I'm a good fit for them.
07:00You may even go as far as reaching out to them by calling their office number and just saying,
07:04Hey, my name is Alex. I'm a data analyst. I'm looking for a job. You know, here are my credentials
07:09and then see if you can work with a recruiter at this company. This is what's called cold emailing
07:13or cold calling. This is not the most optimal way to do it. Although this is an avenue that you
07:18can go
07:18down, I just found that LinkedIn works a lot better. It's a lot more streamlined process.
07:22And so that's typically what I stay with. So those are the exact steps that I take to work
07:26with recruiters on LinkedIn. I wish you the absolute best of luck in your job hunt.
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