12 Ways LinkedIn Can Help You When You’re Looking For A New Job

12 Ways LinkedIn Can Help You When You’re Looking For A New Job

By Alan Case

If you are looking for a job or you want to change jobs; here are some ways you can use LinkedIn.

1. Identifying the right people at a potential employer (finding their profile) to talk to or to network with.

2. Receiving introductions or referrals to potential employers (via the introductions tool or outside of LinkedIn).

3. Discovering the relationships between potential employers and your own network (see the connections in their profiles).

4. Discovering information about recruiters or other people at the organization you would like to work for. This makes the conversations online and offline easier (reading their profile).

5. Maintaining relationship with recruiters or other people at the organization you would like to work for (Personal contacts, Discussions in Groups and answering questions in Answers).

6. Visibility and Personal Branding (your profile not only on LinkedIn, but also in the Search Engines like Google, contributions in Answers and in Discussions).

7. Make yourself be perceived as an expert (contributions in Answers and in Discussions and Expert points).

8. Word of mouth publicity (receiving recommendations and people telling about you in Discussions, mention you as the expert in Answers or talking about you outside of LinkedIn).

9. Getting recommendations which are visible to potential employers (recommendations written by other people which can’t be modified by you which makes them stronger).

10. Finding the right groups and organizations to be member of, both online and offline (via the profiles of people from your network).

11. Picking up trends in the marketplace (Discussions in the groups of your potential employers and in the groups of your peers).

12. Getting notifications when someone changes jobs, this is a trigger to contact them to see if you can work for them in the new organization and to get introduced to the one who will replace them in their current function (network updates).

Can you think of more? Please comment and let me know how you use LinkedIn in your job search. I know I have some more ways to use LinkedIn so stay tuned for more fun ways to use LinkedIn to find and land your next great job.

Happy Hunting to You!

Alan Case
LinkedIn Trainer

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