I still remember creating my curriculum vitae as a student and posting it in job portals like dice.com,monster.com,careerbuilder.com and regularly checking my mail inbox for job enquiry mails from recruiters. Times changes ever since linkedin.com came into existence around 2008. I still remember creating my first personal linkedin.com profile account around 2008.
I am very happy to see linkedin.com growing real good all these years. They have always been a class apart as compared to other job portals owing to fact that this gives more credibility. In addition to this you can get reviews, recommendations from colleagues, co-workers , add more skills to your profile, be in touch with recruiter directly using linkedin.com inBox email.
With linkedin.com Premium features you get even more. You can get list of people looking at your profile anonymously, get to mail people via inMail and establish network connections with lots of professionals in your domain
As such these days I see linkedin.com emerging as all round professional portal as they offer blogposting, Education corner, Q&A corner and what more can a learner and job seeker expect from professional portal?
As such yo can share your knowledge , skills , expertise by posting in linkedin.com. This automatically gets published to all your connections. This gives more visibility among the connections who are prospective managers, recruiters, employers. Even if you are learning a skill and creating post on your knowledge this progression will help you land in your target job
Here is a simple tip to crack the job of your choice. When we mean job of our choice it includes jobrole, location, career level and many other factors. Linkedin.com offers opportunity to pick such jobs. Interestingly many of them have recruiter detail in right hand side. Try to establish connection with recruiter directly and send them message and note on why you show interest in this job. This will help you grab your next job.
Also, we can include our past projects, current projects, publications, e-Book detail, presentation slideshares and more to our profile. Make it a habit to update your profile as soon as you develop a skill. Even in case of selecting all the languages you know, it is interesting to note that you can choose level of proficiency. This helps
I've given this post title linkedin.com for career progression - Here the catchy word is progression. Yes we develop and progress professionally and can update our progress in linkedin profile. This may not be possible in job portals. Try to create a free linkedin.com professional profile, network with people, join appropriate groups, progress professionally
Entrepreneur Career Progression Using Linkedin.com
So far we have been talking about typical job seeker, fulltime job seeker looking to grow professionally leveraging linkedin.com features. As such this blog is more of entrepreneurship and startup and I see that an entrepreneur can grow his business better using linkedin.com as compared to facebook.com. Primary reason being professional network has real serious leads looking for business partnership, tie-ups, interested in your product, member of groups that are governed by this professional networking company. All these help you develop a discipline when you spend time on linkedin.com as well as grow your business
I am very happy to see linkedin.com growing real good all these years. They have always been a class apart as compared to other job portals owing to fact that this gives more credibility. In addition to this you can get reviews, recommendations from colleagues, co-workers , add more skills to your profile, be in touch with recruiter directly using linkedin.com inBox email.
With linkedin.com Premium features you get even more. You can get list of people looking at your profile anonymously, get to mail people via inMail and establish network connections with lots of professionals in your domain
As such these days I see linkedin.com emerging as all round professional portal as they offer blogposting, Education corner, Q&A corner and what more can a learner and job seeker expect from professional portal?
As such yo can share your knowledge , skills , expertise by posting in linkedin.com. This automatically gets published to all your connections. This gives more visibility among the connections who are prospective managers, recruiters, employers. Even if you are learning a skill and creating post on your knowledge this progression will help you land in your target job
Here is a simple tip to crack the job of your choice. When we mean job of our choice it includes jobrole, location, career level and many other factors. Linkedin.com offers opportunity to pick such jobs. Interestingly many of them have recruiter detail in right hand side. Try to establish connection with recruiter directly and send them message and note on why you show interest in this job. This will help you grab your next job.
Also, we can include our past projects, current projects, publications, e-Book detail, presentation slideshares and more to our profile. Make it a habit to update your profile as soon as you develop a skill. Even in case of selecting all the languages you know, it is interesting to note that you can choose level of proficiency. This helps
I've given this post title linkedin.com for career progression - Here the catchy word is progression. Yes we develop and progress professionally and can update our progress in linkedin profile. This may not be possible in job portals. Try to create a free linkedin.com professional profile, network with people, join appropriate groups, progress professionally
Entrepreneur Career Progression Using Linkedin.com
So far we have been talking about typical job seeker, fulltime job seeker looking to grow professionally leveraging linkedin.com features. As such this blog is more of entrepreneurship and startup and I see that an entrepreneur can grow his business better using linkedin.com as compared to facebook.com. Primary reason being professional network has real serious leads looking for business partnership, tie-ups, interested in your product, member of groups that are governed by this professional networking company. All these help you develop a discipline when you spend time on linkedin.com as well as grow your business
