Social Sites to Help with your Job Search: LinkedIn
If you have found yourself searching for a job in this economy, you may have also found yourself in a quandary. The job search has almost exclusively moved online. And online networking has become truly key in finding your Dream Job.
In this series we will highlight the best social sites for making job network connections and review the benefits of each one. The first one is the best for job connections: Linked In.
The benefits of LinkedIn are numerous and include:
Online Resume- The profile option on LinkedIn allows you add your work experience, including the employer, dates of employment and more. Anyone can go to your page and get some basic information on your past (or current) employers and you can also use the Work History option to list any volunteer positions that you hold. How much you want on your profile is up to you. Profile page example.
Recommendations- The recommendations option truly sets LinkedIn apart from many other social sites. You can recommend your connections and they can recommend you. Others can view what is written, if you choose. It’s a great way to give potential employers the ability to view positive opinions of you. And it is completely acceptable in LinkedIn land to request recommendations from your connections if they have worked with you in some way.
Pull-Ins- From your Twitter feed (we will cover Twitter in another post) to your blog, LinkedIn can pull various applications into your homepage which means that not only can your connections see your resume, but also other things that you are working on, expertise from your blog and your interaction with other people online (should you choose).
Connections- LinkedIn has sophisticated technology in place to recommend connections to you. When you are looking at job listings, for instance, it will tell you if you are connected to that employer in some way or if someone in your network is connected with them. This can give you the ability to connect with someone connected more closely (and often working for) that organization. In addition, LinkedIn also recommends people that you might know in a sidebar and lets you know when new colleagues from your listed organizations arrive on LinkedIn.
Groups- LinkedIn has many professional groups available where users post discussions and job opportunities. You can choose to receive a daily or weekly digest which includes a briefing of all the activity in that group. Sign up for groups in your area of expertise and reply within the discussions when there are subject matters that you can talk about. You can also befriend those people within those groups.
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