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LinkedIn has become an important tool for job hunters which is why we've included it. In this section, you'll find information to help you improve your career, network, and get and keep the job you want.


Enhancing Your LinkedIn Profile II: 7 More Tasks and 21 Tips

 By Courtney Shelton Hunt - Building on an earlier post - 7 Simple To Dos for LinkedIn Rookies to Enhance Their Profiles – this piece offers additional guidance to help professionals upgrade their LI profiles incrementally. It describes seven tasks that can be tackled in one sitting or over several sessions. These tasks include adding digital links, creating a summary and adding specialties, selecting representative skills and expertise, and customizing one’s public profile. Each task includes specific tips that reflect best practices and/or maximize the profile’s potential effectiveness. new (Added: 13-Mar-2012 Hits: 63 )

7 Simple To Dos for LinkedIn Rookies to Enhance Their Profiles

 By na - This post provides seven basic recommendations that can help LinkedIn (LI) rookies upgrade their profiles from anemic to respectable. These tasks can be tackled in as little as an hour (and no more than a half-day session) and will produce a solid basic presence that also lays a foundation for future development. new (Added: 7-Mar-2012 Hits: 86 )

Job Seekers - LinkedIn Learning Center

 By LinkedIn - Some excellent tips and advice on how to use LinkedIn if you are looking for a job. From LinkedIn Learning Center (Added: 28-Nov-2011 Hits: 88 )

How to Use LinkedIn in Your Job Search

 By na - Recruiters use LinkedIn to search for, find, and contact potential candidates on a daily basis – in fact, there are over 1,000,000 sourcers, recruiters, and human resources professionals on Linkedin in the United States alone! While I typically write posts for sourcers and recruiters to show them how they can more effectively leverage social networking sites like LinkedIn to find candidates, in this post, I am going to show job seekers how they can use the exact same techniques and strategies to find jobs, perform company research, and how to find and contact recruiters and hiring managers – even if you only have 5 connections! First we’ll start with the basics. (Added: 28-Nov-2011 Hits: 76 )

Build a Robust Profile - LinkedIn Career Services

 By LinkedIn - Straight from LinkedIn this articles explains how to craft your profile, inf you are interested in career advancement and job searches. new (Added: 7-Mar-2012 Hits: 66 )

LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman: Careers in the Networked Economy | Business(Video)

 By Reid Hoffman - (Video) Reid Hoffman knows a thing or two about networking. Not only did he launch one of the most successful Internet companies of the past decade, LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, but he’s developed a formidable network of his own, one that’s given him the opportunity to invest such high-flying Internet start-ups as Facebook and Zynga. Hoffman stopped by TIME’s office in New York City to discuss his new book, The Start-Up of You, which offers insight into how to further your career in the digital, networked economy. new (Added: 7-Mar-2012 Hits: 78 )

How LinkedIn will fire up your career

 By na - Facebook is for fun. Tweets have a short shelf life. If you're serious about managing your career, the only social site that really matters is LinkedIn. In today's job market an invitation to "join my professional network" has become more obligatory -- and more useful -- than swapping business cards and churning out résumés. new (Added: 7-Mar-2012 Hits: 93 )

Finding People on LinkedIn | Career Seeker's Guide

 By Career Search and Career Management Information - How do you find people on LinkedIn To network with related to your career, and job seeking? Here's an excellent article on just that topic. new (Added: 7-Mar-2012 Hits: 76 )

LinkedIn for Executive Job Search

 By na - If you're an executive and you don't have a presence on Google, recruiters and employers are likely to dismiss you as a lightweight. Increasingly, if you're not on LinkedIn, the same thing happens. LinkedIn, a so-called "social networking" site, is really a business networking powerhouse that is a fertile sourcing device for recruiters, a solid business-to-business connector, and a showcase for your career, brand, and value. Yet the majority of executives a) haven't heard of LinkedIn, b) have heard of it but don't use it, or c) have built a sketchy profile, connected with a few people, and then forgotten about it. If this is you, prepare to lose opportunities. (Added: 28-Nov-2011 Hits: 84 )

How to Change the World: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Find a Job

 By Guy Kawasaki - Searching for a job can suck if you constrain yourself to the typical tools such as online jobs boards, trade publications, CraigsList, and networking with only your close friends. In these kinds of times, you need to use all the weapons that you can, and one that many people don’t—or at least don’t use to the fullest extent, is LinkedIn. LinkedIn has over thirty-five million members in over 140 industries. Most of them are adults, employed, and not looking to post something on your Wall or date you. Executives from all the Fortune 500 companies are on LinkedIn. Here are ten tips to help use LinkedIn to find a job. (Added: 28-Nov-2011 Hits: 96 )

Your Essential LinkedIn Guide: Harness the Awesomeness

 By Jenny Yerrick Martin - A good primer on how LinkedIn can be used, not only for job seeking, but also for online reputation management. Some good tips here (Added: 28-Nov-2011 Hits: 153 )

LinkedIn Strategies That Keep You Unemployed

 By JESSICA SIMKO - Mingling around in the hundreds of LinkedIn groups is a great way to network, get yourself noticed, and increase your chances of finding a job or getting a new job. Without a doubt, LinkedIn is a huge resource for job seekers. However, there are wrong ways to use LinkedIn. Ways that, without a doubt, will cause more damage to your personal brand then you might ever imagine. new (Added: 13-Mar-2012 Hits: 75 )

5 Reasons Your LinkedIn Profile isn't Working

 By Laura Smith-Proulx - You can't just throw together a LinkedIn profile and expect it to boost your career. It takes time and skill. This article outlines how to fix five of the most common problems. (Added: 28-Nov-2011 Hits: 121 )

LinkedIn and Your Job Search

 By Allison Doyle - What do Microsoft, Ebay, Netflix, and Target have in common? All these companies (and many more) have used LinkedIn to recruit candidates for employment. Kay Luo, Director of Corporate Communications at LinkedIn, explains why, "The main reason that companies are using LinkedIn is to find passive job candidates. Another reason why companies are using LinkedIn, is because referrals from their employees are highly valued because they typically have a higher success rate (hence the popular "employee referral bonuses"). LinkedIn helps companies leverage the networks of their employees." (Added: 28-Nov-2011 Hits: 89 )

Contacting LinkedIn Members | Career Seeker's Guide

 By Career Search and Career Management Information - Once you've identified people on LinkedIn with whom you'd like to interact, how do you contact them? LinkedIn has strict rules to follow. Learn about the process now. new (Added: 7-Mar-2012 Hits: 66 )

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