Job hunting on LinkedIn just got a lot more discreet with Open
Candidates, allowing people to seek new employment without tipping off their
current employer.
Ideally, one would
feel comfortable leaving their current place of employment after they have
already secured another position at a different company. However, searching for
a job while still employed elsewhere is not always easy and some employers may
not take it too well to find out from a third party such as LinkedIn that one
of their employees is actively looking for another job.
With this in mind,
LinkedIn is now making it easier to look for a job on the down low, without
your current employer finding out.
Ironically, the
initiative is called Open Candidates and allows users to privately let
headhunters and recruiters know that they're looking for new career
opportunities.
How To Use LinkedIn Open Candidates
To take advantage of
this new feature, just go to your LinkedIn Jobs home page and access
"Preferences" to toggle on the feature. From there, add relevant
information about what kind of companies you're interested in and what
positions you'd be willing to take. Once you've provided that information, just
sit back and wait for the offers to start piling up.
Moreover, because
the whole point is not tipping off your current employer that you're looking
for new career opportunities, LinkedIn will hide your own company's recruiters
and any headhunters affiliated with it.
Job hunters can take
advantage of the Open Candidates service completely free of charge, but
employers who want to find prospective candidates through this option will have
to pay for LinkedIn's premium service.
"Open Candidates is a new feature that makes it easier to
connect with your dream job by privately signaling to recruiters that you're
open to new job opportunities," says LinkedIn. "You can specify the
types of companies and roles you are most interested in and be easily found by
the hundreds of thousands of recruiters who use LinkedIn to find great
professional talent."
The new LinkedIn
Open Candidates service is initially rolling out in the United States, the UK,
Australia and Canada, both on mobile and on desktop. A wider global roll-out
will follow "soon”.
Open Candidates is just the latest effort LinkedIn is making to
enhance its services and offer better assistance to professionals. Just
recently, LinkedIn rolled out a cleaner desktop interface, messaging bots and a
new LinkedIn Learning service, which offers
more than 9,000 courses.
Source: Tech Times
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