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Using LinkedIn for Job Searching and Alerts

Ma Thiri has been at a local trading company in Yangon for two years, earning 400,000 MMK per month as an admin assistant. She checks Facebook job groups every night, scrolling past dozens of posts with no salary listed and no company name -- just a Viber number. One evening, a colleague who just landed a coordinator role at an INGO paying 800,000 MMK tells her: 'I did not find it on Facebook. The recruiter found me on LinkedIn.' Ma Thiri has a LinkedIn account she created during university. She has never opened it since. That is about to change.

Key Takeaway

LinkedIn is not a place you visit -- it is a radar system you configure once and let work for you daily. The 20 minutes you spend setting up precise job alerts and the Open to Work signal will surface more quality opportunities than months of scrolling Facebook job groups.

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Set up targeted LinkedIn job search alerts that surface relevant roles daily without overwhelming notifications

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Understand which Myanmar employer types actively recruit through LinkedIn versus other channels

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Configure the Open to Work feature with correct privacy settings so recruiters find you without alerting your current employer

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