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Get the Best Out of LinkedIn for Your Personal Brand, Networking, and Executive Job Search
By Meg Guiseppi | October 29, 2008
Over the past several months, I’ve been compiling some hefty blog posts on how to become a savvy LinkedIn user. With the overwhelming amount of information out there about LinkedIn, these are just a few posts that warrant your attention.
Did you know that Jason Alba, author of I’m On LinkedIn, Now What???, and a very soon to be published second edition of same, also has an entire blog devoted to LinkedIn?
You’ll find plenty of advice there on taking advantage of all that LinkedIn has to offer. The blog has 50 posts in the category “Using LinkedIn” alone!
Jason also blogs frequently about LinkedIn on his JibberJobber blog. I want to pass along one of his important quick tips – download and export your LinkedIn profile as a PDF so you can back it up. You never know what may happen. Jason explains how in LinkedIn Maintenance: Do This Right Now (or else?).
LinkedIn does a really nice job creating a stand-alone PDF of your profile that you can use for various purposes.
Chris Muccio at CFO Strategist includes the following in his 101 Tips to Enhance Your Use of LinkedIn:
- 5 Tips to Increase the Number of Your Contacts
- 5 Tips to Increase Your Chances of Being “Found”
- 5 Tips to Enhance Your Business Development Efforts
- 5 Tips to Use Linkedin to Enhance the Job Search Process
In Gigantic Tips Guide for Finding Jobs With LinkedIn, Jacob Share at JobMob includes a quick glossary, then many pointers within each of the following:
- Make the right choices first
- Develop a LinkedIn strategy
- Supercharge your LinkedIn profile
- Multiply recommendations, yours and theirs
- Maximize your connections: Get the best, and reach the best
Laura Schneider at about.com covers the following in How to use LinkedIn for Job Searching:
- LinkedIn Offers Five Tips to Jumpstart Your Career in 2008
- Build your online brand
- Be at the forefront of people’s minds
- Make smarter decisions
- Prioritize how you spend your time
- Stay on top of what’s going on in your world
In LinkedIn Tips and Tweaks: Do More with your LinkedIn Account, Amit Agarwal at Digital Inspiration shares some lesser known features of LinkedIn to help you improve your profile.
My related posts:
More Tips to Brand Up Your Flat LinkedIn Profile and Get More Attention In Your Executive Job Search
LinkedIn and Blogging: Cohorts in Personal Branding and Executive Job Search
Topics: Career Management Best Practices, Entrepreneurial Blogging Scene, LinkedIn, Networking, Online Identity, Personal/Leadership Branding, Social Media, The Executive Job Search |
October 29th, 2008 at 8:26 am
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October 29th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Linkedin was included into the About.com Top 10 employment site list…linkedin is still the only social network on the list though…..the newest 3 on the list are-
http://www.linkedin.com (professional networking)
http://www.indeed.com (aggregated listings)
http://www.realmatch.com (matches you to the perfect job)
Good luck to those searching for candidates or jobs!
October 29th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Great collection Meg, thanks for putting this together (and thanks for the plug :)).
Jason Alba
CEO - JibberJobber.com
Author - I’m on LinkedIn — Now What???
October 29th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Hey Jason,
You’re so much at the heart of things LinkedIn, how could I not include you?
Thanks for all the valuable information and advice you always provide on your blogs, publications, webinars, presentations, etc.
-Meg
November 1st, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Meg, it’s not easy to make a readable list of lists but you’ve done a great job.
Stumbled this for you:
http://jobmob.stumbleupon.com/review/27048617/
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:26 am
Hi Jacob,
Thanks for your very kind comments and for stumbling the post.
I know how much I appreciate lists that are compelling and have substance. Hopefully this one I’ve put together will be useful to job seekers.
-Meg
February 6th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Hi Meg,
Just became aware of your post. Really like it! It is a great list that provides actionable guidance in this very challenging economic environment. Thank you for including our CFO Strategist post in yours!
We recently released our book - 42 Rules for 24 Hour Success on LinkedIn, and were pleasantly surprised when it hit the Amazon Best Seller list. So the interest level is clearly growing on this topic.
As you do follow up posts, please feel free to reach out to us & let us know how we can best share additional tips with you and your audience. Currently on our site, we offer a free e.course and a couple of free presentations related to the book too.
Great Job! Look forward to reading more on your blog!
Chris
Chief Technopologist - http://www.LinkToProsper.com
Author – 42 Rules to 24 Hour Success on LinkedIn
February 6th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Thanks for the kind words, Chris.
I’m always drawn to a great “Top 100″ list and hope that yours, along with the other lists in my post, offer the kind of value to my readers that they did to me.
I hope you visit here regularly and chime in from time to time.
-Meg
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