Excited to Share: Job Search Focus, Data-Mining Tips, AI Skills & More 📩

🎉 Welcome to the inaugural edition of Get Her Hired's Excited to Share Newsletter! We're thrilled to bring you weekly job search strategies, data-driven tips, must-have skills, and advice to help you land your dream job. Let's get started!

🔥This Week’s Sizzling Job Search Strategy: Be a LinkedIn Looky-Loo

Are you thinking about a new job title? An easy way to test the waters: get nosy on LinkedIn.

Try This: Search for the job title you want in the search bar on LinkedIn. At the top, select PEOPLE. You will see a list of people who have the job title you want. Click on 1 of their profiles. What skills do they feature? What do they post? Who do they follow? What groups do they belong to? What awards do they have? If they’re profile is as dry as the Sahara, keep looking. Review a total of 11 profiles this week and to get some fresh ideas!

🔢This Week’s Data-Diva Tip:  Ask WHAT + WHY to Uncover Metrics

A client of mine shared that she couldn’t quantify her biggest project, the one she most wanted to brag about in her resume.  So, I asked some questions:

Why was the project prioritized? What was the goal of the project?  What was the outcome of your work?  She shared that all agile coaches had been laid off.  The company needed to develop standard practices and resources so that people could continue working in an agile manner without an agile coach. I asked: what did agile coaches do? She shared: they kept work flowing, resolved team communication issues, helped prioritize builds, collaborated between business teams and tech teams; essentially they kept product development on track. (Side-exasperation - then why the heck were they all laid off?!!!) Then I asked her what kinds of practices and resources she built. Her answer: “work flows, operations, reporting, escalation processes, communication templates, stuff like that”.

Through this questioning, she was able to quantify that she had directed the build of 100+ tools and resources, kept product development 84% on schedule, retained 87% of employees, and reduced operational expenses by 15% within 3 months.

Now those are some metrics! How did we get there? By asking WHAT and WHY.

🍳This Week’s Killer Skill: Artificial Intelligence

AI Productivity Hacks for Work (27 minutes) AI Trends (90 minutes) AI for Finance, Accounting & Auditing (5 hours) AI & Machine Learning for Business (5.5 Hours) AI Practical Essentials for Managers (3.5 Hours)

Pro Tip: Update your LinkedIn and Resume with this new skill!

🤩This Week’s “Girl, thanks for telling me!” Topic: FOCUS your search

Do you have 20 different job titles in mind? 10 industries you are open to working in? Want to work in a start-up AND a Fortune 500? Many smart, highly capable job seekers do not want to “inadvertently” limit new job opportunities by being too specific. And yet, NOT focusing can be a HUGE barrier in a job search. Focus matters. Why? Because narrowing down our efforts gives us real information, not hypotheticals.

Try This: Pick one area of expertise. Dial your resume into this topic. Adjust your strategies for networking, searching, posting, commenting to zero-in on this one area. Do this for 6-8 weeks without FOMO! Let me know what happens!

📆 Upcoming Events:

Kate is partnering with Gurpreet Mann (LinkedIn Expert), Luki Danukarjanto (Mindset Expert), and Yauhan Mehta (Personal  Branding Expert)  to deliver a Free LinkedIn Audio Event:  “Secrets of Landing Job Offers”.

⏲ April 17 @ 2 PM EST

 Join us inside our LinkedIn Audio Room 

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 This Week’s Featured Partners

Coach of the Week: Gurpreet Mann, Miss LinkedIn - Named Top 15 LinkedIn Expert, Top Job Search Coach, 6-Figure Career Expert, Queen of Hidden Job Market

Recruiter of the Week: Chelle Johnson, Executive Recruiter & Coach for High Impact Companies & People

Thought Leader to Follow: Luki Danukarjanto, helping young professionals and students be more confident in creating their purpose-filled career.

This Week’s Organization we Love: First Women’s Bank, on a mission to grow the economy and elevate the role of women within it.

This Week’s Client Spotlight: Zoe Zela, Creative and Art Director, NYC. Zoe is a visionary leader who creates influential visual narratives in fashion, advertising, and editorial storytelling. An award-winning photographer and innovative art director, she’s cultivated a portfolio of impactful campaigns for top-tier brands and publications.

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Thanks for reading! Kate Wade + Ann Marie Schofield

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