Twelve Ways to Use LinkedIn
LinkedIn is one of my favorite Web 2.0 apps. It gives me a great way to keep business contacts. With the latest feature, LinkedIn Answers, it creates another dimension to receive great insights and advices from professionals. In short, it is a grown up version of Myspace.
Guy Kawasaki suggests 10 more ways (his readers contributed two more) to use LinkedIn. They give me more excuses to spend more time into LinkedIn:
- Increase your visibility
- Improve your connectability
- Improve your Google PageRank
- Enhance your search engine results
- Perform blind, “reverse,” and company reference checks
- Increase the relevancy of your job search
- Make your interview go smoother
- Gauge the health of a company
- Gauge the health of an industry
- Track startups
- Ask for advice
- Integrate into a new job
- Scope out the competition, customers, partners, etc
I want to add Use it as your online resume. I have added a profile button at my personal homepage. Good thing is that I do not have to create another page to keep my resume online. It also contains recommendations from other people who endorsed my work. With that, there are responses/queries coming on my work from both LinkedIn and email.
Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn - [How to Change the World]
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Krishna Kumar says on January 5th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Nice post. I have also outsourced my resume and profile to LinkedIn. They make the resume much more structured and provide the ability to make selected sections visible.
Jakob Thusgaard says on January 6th, 2007 at 5:28 am
Now all you need is that recruiters start asking candidates for LinkedIn profile links instead of the slightly old-fashioned word or pdf documents.
Will that finally come in 2007?
Julio Hernandez Miyares says on February 11th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Some folks already search Google for job candidate names and if they weren’t adequately prepared before the interview do it right in front of the candidate to boot!
Nevertheless, lots of old-fashioned folks still like to feel the paper in between their finger. Could it and should it be just a printout of what you have on LinkedIN , sure, why not.