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Get the Best Out of LinkedIn for Your Personal Brand, Networking, and Executive Job Search

 

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

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  1. Meg Guiseppi says

    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

  2. Chris Muccio CFO Strategist says

    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

  3. Meg Guiseppi says

    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

  5. Meg Guiseppi says

    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