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Social Media and Your Career: How to use Linkedin to be seen!
Helpful advice from DBS Careers Service

LinkedIn enables you to create an online advertisement for yourself. Your 'Professional Headline' is the text space next to your name. You have 120 characters to relate your skills and career goals to your online identity. Recruiters and Hiring Managers search for specific terms such as skills and qualifications online on a daily basis. They are using a combination of google search and LinkedIn search functions.

A common question DBS Careers Services get asked is "How do I make my profile more likely to appear higher in the rankings by LinkedIn’s search engine?" 

 


To help you focus on optimizing your search-ability in the online marketplace, consider opening your mind to the notion that as a job seeker, you are a product that is 'for sale'.  The following Top 5 LinkedIn Tips will help you enhance your online career identity:

1.    Answer the “WIIFM” question. The person reading your profile will want to know “What’s in it for me?” Use your headline to clearly show how your expertise benefits the employer.


2. Incorporate the job title you are hoping to get hired for next. Determine what you want to be found for, and emphasize those terms. Your headline should be future-focused, which will allow you to move toward your career goal.


3.  If you are looking while unemployed, touch on that lightly in your headline. (But, only if you want to!) If you’re not comfortable with that, don’t. Don’t make that  you are currently a job seeker the sole focus of your headline or waste too many precious characters on it. Touch on it, then move on to emphasizing brand elements or keywords that will help you to be found.


4.    Include different words that mean the same thing. The same job can have a different title at different companies and recruiters may search for either. 


5.    Don’t waste space with overused buzzwords. Before you include a word in your headline, ask yourself whether it will hold meaning for the reader. Starting with skills and qualification related terms is a good place to start. Steer clear of personal attributes such as 'innovative' or 'determined'. Skills and qualifications will get you the job, personal attributes will help you excel at the job once you are in. 
 
100 jobs to be created in Dublin by Aztec Money
Get your career moving with a DBS professional qualification

A FINANCE firm Aztec Money is setting up its global headquarters in George’s Quay in Dublin and plans to create 100 jobs. 


The jobs will come on stream in the next two years. It is also looking for graduates to take up intern roles at the firm. The company helps small and medium businesses get better access to finance without having to go through their banks. It serves global markets including Africa, Asia and the Americas. This is the first of two jobs boosts for the city planned in the near future.

If you are considering a career within a multinational finance company, DBS offers a wide range of  Evening Diploma courses to help you take the first step towards your new job.
We offer Professional Diploma courses in the following areas:


We are currently accepting application for all Diploma courses, application can be submitted ONLINE

Apply NOW and kick-start your finance career with DBS!



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