Reap all the benefits from career network LinkedIn
MBA News Barbara Barkhausen / 02-07-2012
LinkedIn is not even ten years old. The networking site was launched in 2003 and by now has more than 135 million members in more than 200 countries. According to the company, there were nearly two billion people searches on LinkedIn in 2010 and about double the amount only a year later. Especially for recruiters, LinkedIn is a valuable tool that allows them to find job-seekers, headhunt employees and see who is connected to whom. To make a LinkedIn profile strong enough for recruiters and companies to become aware of it, there are a few tips to be followed.
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1. Upload a business picture of yourself – this makes you more real and people get a feel for the person behind the profile.
2. Complete your profile 100 per cent to make yourself more searchable and indexable.
3. Update your information, skills and news.
4. Don’t just connect with everyone. Think about who you really want to be connected to and why. How you can add value to them or they to you.
5. Use LinkedIn, but don’t entirely rely on it. A personal conversation weighs much more.
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