Tom H. C. Anderson - Next Gen Market Research™

Get a LinkedIn Profile!

Though we often do hire, especially graduate students, regardless of whether or not they have any real world working experience they usually come to us via a word of mouth referral.

Of course quite frequently we do also get emails sent to the ‘careers’ email at Anderson Analytics even though they are not in application for the positions listed on our site (currently only a developer position is listed). While we make no promises of responding to any inquiries (as there’s simply too many these days), I’d like to give university undergraduate and graduate students a little free tip.

Though I can’t speak for everyone, if we take the time to look at you, the first place I personally check is on LinkedIn. I don’t care how little experience you have, or whether or not you are connected to 10 or 100 people. But a LinkedIn profile with at minimum your educational background and location helps me feel like you are a real person vs. some kind of spammer. You see everyone else I know in the professional world is on there!

If I can’t find you on LinkedIn within 30 seconds, then with very few exceptions I’ll just delete the email and forget about you.

So a free tip, and please don’t look at this as an invitation for resumes, but when you send an email about a job inquiry it could be a good idea to have at least a simple LinkedIn profile and to provide the URL to that profile within the email.

It takes but a few minutes to set up, and helps build a little trust and makes us think you might have a clue

@TomHCAnderson
PS. Forget what your University Career Office told you. A picture on your profile helps me know you’re a real person. Will extensively Google you anyway before ever hiring you, and if nothing comes up that’s a lot more worrisome to me than a picture on Facebook of you having a beer with your friends on the weekend.