How to Use LinkedIn to Land an Engineering Job (Step-by-Step)

Finding a job is like trying to sell your mixtape. But by far the best way to get a job or an internship…especially for an engineering role is to reach out to recruiters, engineers, or hiring managers on LinkedIn. However, the process of reaching out to recruiters is a little different than reaching out to engineers, so I’ll share a step-by-step breakdown of how to contact each.
Timestamps are as follows:

00:00 Intro
00:18 Why Use LinkedIn?
00:55 How to Reach Out to Recruiters
03:56 How to Reach Out to Engineers/Hiring Managers
07:48 LinkedIn vs Email
08:24 Direct Messaging Recruiters vs Engineers

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ABOUT ME:
My name is Tamer Shaheen and I am a recent mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo, currently working as a Mechanical Design Engineer. I like to make videos about university/college, engineering, and personal development. Thank you so much for watching!!

[kianakamrani]

Tamer, you have no idea how much influence you have in here. I watched your video last night, texted a hiring manager this morning, and scheduled a 0.5 hr video call for next week!! I'd never done it before. I was always anxious to text people on LinkedIn, thinking who would take the time to talk with a stranger, blah blah but it worked. Now I am not thinking they are gonna offer me a job next week but who knows what's gonna happen?! Thank you and we appreciate your work and effort.

[luissato]

Wow man, hope somebody started this yt channel on 2018, when I iniciated my Industrial Engineering degree. Keep doing this valuable work!

[nishantmalik]

I have changed 5 message templates over the last year, but was always confused what and how should i approach people. This video was beyond helpful. Thank you.

[murjoshua]

Hey man, just want you to know how much I never regret having subscribed to this channel. Always insightful. ❤From Kigali, Rwanda (ML Eng).

[mohamadkhalil]

Thank you, Tamer! Your topics are really interesting and they're helpful to many. Keep it up.

[walter]

Update: I did what you said and well I landed an offer thanks bro for looking out for us!

[BrunoSilva-ursb]

Thank you for the tips! I'm a mechanical engineer from Chile looking for a job opportunity and I will definitely apply some of these tips. Great video as always!

[georgiacatton]

your work on youtube is so so helpful to baby engineers like me, ur videos help me a lot, half way through first year, and beginning to feel like its possible to land jobs and internships in the near future! will be sharing with my classmates!! GOAT

[mattdrabant]

I have not finished the video at the moment that I am commenting but this video is definitely giving me a lot to think about as a first-year Mec Eng Student at PSU. I am looking for a summer '23 internship which is proving to be very difficult with no industry experience, thanks for the outreach tips!!!

[SA-jowd]

I literally started using LinkedIn couple of days ago. It's like you read my mind 😁

[hijay]

Hey bro! Your videos are amazing! I have a suggestion: could you please do a Labtop Guide for engineering students? I know you briefly mentioned a laptop buying guide in a back to school video, but I think an updated and longer version would be helpful! Does anyone else agree?

[fozanshaque]

Keep going bro, great information very valuable, Appreciate it!

[sophiathephirst]

this is going to be really helpful in a couple of years! Ty!

[wisdomkhan]

Wow, superb content and how beautifully videographed.

[neveroddnoreven]

Just took notes. If I get a job, I'll be sure to message you.
Let's grab an ee grad role boys

[strikerx]

Literally was thinking about how to do this today

[Sophia-mnil]

Education system is suck when students forces to study a lot but can’t find a job after graduation. It took about 2 years for my brother to find a job .

[gurucharan]

Bro could you please make videos for fresher also... Skills to be acquired and how to make LinkedIn profile attractive.

[denaldfurtado]

Sir, make some videos related to FMEA, GD&T, ROOT CAUSE ANANLYSIS (8D), PDM or Entire process in product manufacturing . Waiting from you Sir.

[oooowawooooo]

damn. just started doing this with hopes that this might help, but linkedin has a monthly limit of like 5 personalized connection notes. idk if there's any way to bypass or if this method is just impossible without paying for premium :(