Sharing Your Profile When You Apply
Going back to your Privacy settings, click on the fourth heading under Job seeking preferences, as illustrated in the next screenshot.
As with the previous section, your options are a simple Yes or No. Click either on the heading or the word Change and toggle the radio button to Yes.
Managing Your Saved Job Application Information
Third-party job applicant accounts may be stored on LinkedIn after being created or added by you while applying to jobs through LinkedIn. You would have elected to activate this feature when you modified your Job application settings, as described at the beginning of this guide. The following screenshot is a reminder of where you made this change:
To view and manage your stored job applicant accounts, go back to your Privacy settings and click on the fifth heading under Job seeking preferences, as illustrated in the next screenshot.
By saving your application when applying to a company, you can reuse your uploaded resumes and other job application information for future applications to that company. Saved answers can only be used when applying via the Apply with LinkedIn on partner sites.
You can delete the history of the account creation from LinkedIn under Settings & Privacy. Once a stored job applicant account is removed, LinkedIn won’t auto-populate or recognize that you have an account if you apply to a job within that third-party job applicant account in the future.
To fully remove your information from the third-party job applicant account owner, you will need to contact the third party directly.
Important: This information is only stored for third-party applications that require a created account.
Letting Recruiters Know Your Career Interests
You can share your career goals — including the types of companies and roles you are most interested in — with recruiters on LinkedIn who may have opportunities that match your interests and background. Once you opt to share your career goals with recruiters, users of LinkedIn’s Recruiter product will be able to find you based on your shared career interests when they are searching for profiles.
This is an extremely valuable section to complete, whether you are an active or passive jobseeker. Remember, to protect your privacy, LinkedIn has taken steps to keep LinkedIn Recruiter users who work at your company, as well as related companies, from seeing the career interests you share. (However, remember that LinkedIn says this is not a foolproof method, so consider that before proceeding.)
Note: You can share your career interests with recruiters for a period of six months (180 days), after which it will automatically be turned off. You will receive an email notifying you that you’re no longer sharing your career interests. However, you can continue sharing by manually changing the settings.
From the Home screen of your profile, click on Jobs and then on Career Interests, as illustrated in the next screenshot.
When you toggle On the setting to Let recruiters know you’re open, it will automatically turn off after 90 days. You will need to turn it back on if you are still searching.
The Note to recruiters text box is where you can key in something specific about your search, such as your willingness to travel, that you are changing careers, or that you are in the market because of a company-wide downsizing. You are limited to 300 characters.
In the next two text boxes, choose from the drop-down arrow options to specify your Status and your Start date.
Below that, you can enter a number of job titles for which you’d like to be considered.
Note: When you start typing, a job title that is in LinkedIn’s database will pop up and you can click on it to add it. If you try to add a title that is not in the database, an error message that reads Invalid input will appear.
Next, you can indicate where you would like your next job to be located, if you are open to working remotely, and what types of jobs you are open to.
In the final two settings you can let the recruiter know what industries you prefer and the size of the company you would like to work for.
Note: As with job titles, you must choose from the list of 148 industries that are included in LinkedIn’s database. There is no limit to how many industries you can add. The complete list of Profile Industry Choices will be provided on the next blog post
The next few screenshots illustrate the various settings.
When you toggle Onthe setting to Let recruiters know you’re open,it will automatically turn off after 90 days. You will need to turn it back on if you are still searching.
The Note to recruiterstext box is where you can key in something specific about your search, such as your willingness to travel, that you are changing careers, or that you are in the market because of a company-wide downsizing. You are limited to 300 characters.
In the next two text boxes, choose from the drop-down arrow options to specify your Statusand your Start date.
Below that, you can enter a number of job titles for which you’d like to be considered.
Note:When you start typing, a job title that is in LinkedIn’s database will pop up and you can click on it to add it. If you try to add a title that is not in the database, an error message that reads Invalid inputwill appear.
Next, you can indicate where you would like your next job to be located, if you are open to working remotely, and what types of jobs you are open to.
In the final two settings you can let the recruiter know what industries you prefer and the size of the company you would like to work for.
Note:As with job titles, you must choose from the list of 148 industries that are included in LinkedIn’s database. There is no limit to how many industries you can add. Refer to the Profile Industry Choicestable that is included with this guide.
