How To Get a Better Job Using LinkedIn Mike Sudermann shares the details of career transition, how to optimize your LinkedIn profile, and how to "dig the well before you're thirsty" by cultivating meaningful relationships throughout your working life. Takeaway: Make sure whatever you do for the bulk of the day is something that brings you happiness and fulfillment. Chase happiness in work, not just money. Action Step: Adjust your LinkedIn profile by creating a targeted headline, and optimize the page to show your diverse skills and accomplishments in detail. Money Learnings: Mike's paper route as a child set the foundations for a dedicated, strong work ethic that's carried him forward throughout his career. He's also teaching his kids about money by teaching them to be responsible for their own mistakes, and understand the market value of labor. Bio: Mike Sudermann is a highly accomplished executive recruiter & career transition specialist who places top tier talent with companies around the world. He is the Founder and CEO of the award-winning executive search firm, Ascent Select Executive Search & Outplacement. He has personally reviewed over eighty thousand resumes, worked with thousands of executives, and made more than three hundred placements. Also, Mike founded and created Advantage Outplacement Academy a market-leading career transition program for professionals at all levels. Mike is a best-selling author of the book called The Executive Leap, is an industry speaker, and has a daily podcast called The Executive Leap where he discusses executive recruiter insider secrets to leaping into your next great job. Highlights from this episode: Show notes page

• Being raised by a single father
• Generational differences in risk tolerance
• Making relationship-building "deposits"
• Mike's journey into the recruiting business
• Challenge of the first 90 days
• How he launched his own firm
• Optimizing your LinkedIn profile
• Who is looking at your LinkedIn Profile?
• Advantage Outplacement: the 45 day career transition program
• Shooting for meaningful work, not just high income
• Mike's Profit First Story

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