LinkedIn Tips

Everyone I talk to about job-seeking strategies hears about LinkedIn, a popular professional networking tool available on the internet. It is by far the best online tool I have seen for managing you professional contacts and utilizing them for expanding you most important resource for finding employment opportunities. Today I ran across a website which focuses on how LinkedIn users are using the LinkedIn networking tool. It is called Linked Intelligence. Of note is the page on 100+  ways to use LinkedIn. Also of note is the "Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn" by Guy Kawasaki. These are good places to get ideas on how to use LinkedIn in ways you may not have explored. 

Also, remember that any kind of online networking site is only a tool that assists with networking, and shouldn't be confused with networking itself. Networking is the art of building and maintaining alliances, or relationships. Online tools can be effective contact management and search tools. But they are limited tools for building relationships, which is best done face to face. You want people in your network to know you and what you can do. So, use LinkedIn and the other online tools to help you:

• Find new people to meet, so they can get to know you 
• Stay in contact with people you already know and help them to get to know you better 
  

Good luck and call or email me with any questions.