Linkedin by lydia habash

LinkedIn


If you are a person looking for jobs, and you are finding it difficult to pursue your career and improve it then you should try using LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a business oriented social networking site that enables you to connect with colleagues, look for a job or business relationships and get answers to industry questions. It operates as an online professional network designed to help members find jobs, people, and business opportunities. It also offers career management tools to help you manage your career. If you are looking for jobs and business opportunities then I think LinkedIn is the best place to go to.

By using this site you can maintain a list of contacts of people you know and trust in business. The people in this list are called connections. You can invite anyone you want to become your connection. Your connections would make up your contact networks. Your contact networks are made up of your direct connections and your second degree connections. This would be very helpful to you because you can use your trusted contacts to get you introduced to someone you want to know.

You can use LinkedIn in many ways. You can use it to find jobs and business opportunities that are recommended by someone from your contact network. You can also view the profiles of hiring managers and look in your contact list to find which contacts can introduce you to them. You can also follow different companies at once and get notifications about the available new offers. Employers can also list jobs and find workers on LinkedIn.

By using LinkedIn you are able to research the companies that you are interested in working with them. You can type the name of the company in the search box and the company’s statistics will be provided to you. These statistics may include the percentage of the most common positions that are held within the company, a list of the company’s employees, the ratio of male to female employees, and the location of the company’s offices and headquarters. This can make your search for companies much easier.

You can also use LinkedIn as your CV. People are starting to send links to the LinkedIn profile rather than sending their CV for jobs. After all why would you keep on updating and resending a word file continuously when by using LinkedIn, you can have all your career history in one place, and updated as you go.

LinkedIn also works on building trust among the users. If people want to contact a professional, they need to have an existing relation with them, or they need an intervention of a contact they have. This is intended to build trust between the users in LinkedIn.

Even if you do not know English you can still use LinkedIn because LinkedIn is also available in other languages. LinkedIn is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese, French, German, and Italian. Today, LinkedIn are still trying to extent their languages to as many as possible to help many professionals around the world.

I believe that LinkedIn is the perfect site for business relations. You can see the recommendations of others. You can also look for jobs and opportunities. It also gives you the ability to build your resume. LinkedIn can be also used as your CV. In the end, LinkedIn will be very helpful to you and to your business career.


Resources

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/linkedin

http://jobsearch.about.com/od/networking/a/linkedin.htm

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/linkedin.com#

http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=pop_privacy_policy