Communication Workshop Technology Exploring Career Prospects in Your Field With Linkedin Where are the obs? The good news is that although competi tive, the job market is promising and haring is up. How can you Study the opening page. The interface is clean and unclot find open positions) As many as 80 percent of candidates smag tered. If you have previously joined Linkedin, your search job through old-fashioned networking with people they know results will be relevant to your profile However, Linkedin teaching and networking online, where Select keyword, category, city, and state Decide whether the employers are in a recent poll, nearly 95 percent of recrut you want to search by a job title such as nurse accountant ing and staffing professional stated that they used Linkedin as Dropct manager or a category such as Accounting/Finance a recruiting tool Administrative Clerical Adverting Marketing Enter your key Linkedin is the place to find and be found, especially for new word job title or select a category-ordo both Entera city state or region. Click Search. gradsit lists well over a million and a half student jobs and inter- ships in addition to millions of full time jobs. Other social media Study the job listings. Click the links to read more about the platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Glassdoor job opening as well as popular jobboards, are additional job search tools Explore popular job boards. Try Indeed, the No. 1 job site you can literally manage in the palm of your hand. Linkedin is an offering milions of job listings aggregated from thousands excellent place for any job seeker to learn what is available what of websites. Indeed accounts for more hires than all the other qualifications are necessary and what salaries are being offered job boards combined. Other big boards are CareerBuilder If you haven't done so readyyou will need to develop anette Monster, and College Grad. These sites allow you to search tive, professional Linkedin profile sooner or later by location and type of job Become familiar with the sites search tools and look for jobs in your field CAREER APPLICATION. Assume that you are about to finish Select the best ads in your career and geographical your degree or certification program and you are now looking select the three best ads and print them. If you cannot print for a job. At the direction of your instructor conduct a survey of take notes on what you find. online job advertisements in your field. What's available How Analyze the skills required. How often to the ads you much is the salary? What are the requirements printed mention communication, teamwork, computer skills, or professionism? What tasks do the ads mention? What YOUR TASK is the salary range identified in these ads for the positions Visit Linkedin. If you haven't signed up for an account yet. they featurel Tip: Glassdoor offers an insider's look at look for the Browse Linkedin heading on the home page and many companies and positions. Because posts are anony click the jobs link below it. If you have a profile already, go to mous, you will find confidential salary data. Your instruc your home page and click Jobs in the black and on top of for may ask you to submit your findings and/or report to the class the page Communication Workshops such as the one on the pogul provide insight into special business communication topics and skills not discussed in the chapters. Toples include ethics, technology, career skills, and collaboration. Each work shop Indudes a career application to extend your learning and help you develop skills relevant to the workshop topic. 33