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Brand yourself like a pro on LinkedIn  LinkedIn multiplies what you know by the power of who you know to deliver the number one social platform for business professionals and new job seekers. 
 shows LinkedIn newcomers the best ways to discover new opportunities, enhance their personal brand, network with other professionals, and give an exponential boost to their career. Consider this book a passport to help you connect more successfully with many of LinkedIn’s 660+ million members in over 200 countries, as well as an expert guide to the platform’s tools and features and the proven tactics that get you noticed. 
In this friendly, all-access introduction to the LinkedIn scene, entrepreneurship guru Joel Elad clues you in on the essentials. Get the latest insight on how to create an attractive profile that will make employers give you a second glance as well as techniques for making useful connections across the globe. In no time at all you’ll also be right at home with the profile user interface and getting busy with adding content, searching for career opportunities, and, if you’re looking to hire for your company, recruiting top candidates. 
Build your personal brand and market it Sell yourself by highlighting skills, awards, and endorsements Get connected with LinkedIn groups Manage and make introductions via InMail Relationships matter: 
 gives you the online social skills to turn six degrees of separation into the colleagues, mentors, and friends who will transform your career—and your life.

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I’ve been asked many times whether it’s okay to be a LION and whether there is any meaning or benefit to having so many connections. My answer is that I don’t endorse being a LION at all! Although some people feel that they can find some quality hidden in the quantity, LinkedIn is designed to cultivate quality connections. Not only does LinkedIn heavily discourage users being a LION to the point of almost banning them, but also the random connections make it next to impossible to tap the real power and potential of LinkedIn.

Discovering What You Can Do with LinkedIn

Time to find out what kinds of things you can do on LinkedIn. The following sections introduce you to the topics you need to know to get your foot in the LinkedIn door and really make the site start working for you.

Building your brand and profile

On LinkedIn, you can build your own brand. Your name, your identity, is a brand — just like Ford or Facebook — in terms of what people think of when they think of you. It’s your professional reputation. Companies spend billions to ensure that you have a certain opinion of their products, and that opinion, that perception, is their brand image. You have your own brand image in your professional life, and it’s up to you to own, define, and push your brand.

Most people today have different online representations of their personal brand. Some people have their own websites, some create and write blogs, and some create profile pages on sites such as Facebook. LinkedIn allows you to define a profile and build your own brand based on your professional and educational background. I use my profile as an example in Figure 1-3.

FIGURE 13Create a unified profile page to showcase your professional history - фото 12

FIGURE 1-3:Create a unified profile page to showcase your professional history.

Your LinkedIn profile can become a jumping-off point, where any visitor can get a rich and detailed idea of all the skills, experiences, and interests you bring to the table. Unlike a resume, where you have to worry about page length and formatting, you can provide substance and detail on your LinkedIn profile, including any part-time, contract, nonprofit, and consulting work in addition to traditional professional experience. You also have other options to consider; for example, you can

Write your own summary.

List any groups you belong to.

Describe any courses you have completed and test scores you have achieved.

Show any memberships or affiliations you have.

Cite honors and awards you have received.

Identify any patents or certifications you have earned.

Provide links to any publications you’ve written or published.

Give and receive endorsements of people’s skills. (I discuss endorsements in Chapter 7.)

Give and receive recommendations from other people. (I discuss recommendations in Chapter 9.)

Indicate your professional interests or supported causes.

Upload presentations, graphic design projects, or portfolio examples for others to view.

Upload videos that demonstrate a particular skill or past project.

Post website links to other parts of your professional identity, such as a blog, a website, or an e-commerce store you operate.

The best part is that you control and shape your professional identity. You decide what the content should be. You decide what to emphasize and what to omit. You decide how much information is visible to the world and how much is visible to your first-degree connections. (I talk more about the power of your profile in Chapters 2and 3.)

Looking for a job now or later

At some point in your life, you’ll probably have to look for a job. It might be today, it might be a year from now, or it may be ten years from now. The job search is, in itself, a full-time job, and studies show that as many as 85 percent of all jobs are found not through a job board such as Indeed or CareerBuilder, or a newspaper classified ad, but rather through a formal or informal network of contacts where the job isn’t even posted yet. LinkedIn makes it easy to do some of the following tedious job search tasks:

Finding the right person at a target company, such as a hiring manager in a certain department, to discuss immediate and future job openings

Getting a reference from a past boss or co-worker to use for a future job application

Finding information about a company and position before the interview

Enabling the right employers to find you and validate your experience and job potential before an interview

Searching posted job listings on a job board such as the one on LinkedIn

The hidden power of LinkedIn is that it helps you find jobs you weren’t looking for or applying to directly. This is when you’re a passive job seeker, currently employed but interested in the right opportunity. As of this writing, hundreds of thousands of recruiters are members of LinkedIn, and they constantly use the search functions to go through the database and find skilled members who match their job search requirements. Instead of companies paying big money for resume books, they now have instant access to millions of qualified professionals, each of whom has a detailed profile with skills, experience, and recommendations already available.

This practice of finding passive job seekers is growing quickly on LinkedIn, mainly because of the following reasons:

Companies can run detailed searches to find the perfect candidate with all the right keywords and skills in his profile, and they then contact the person to see whether he is interested.

LinkedIn users demonstrate their capabilities by providing knowledge on the site, which gives companies insight into the passive job seeker’s capabilities. Not only does LinkedIn give users the opportunity to share updates and knowledge, but it also hosts an extensive network of groups on the site. Each group runs its own discussion board of conversations, where LinkedIn users can pose a question or start a conversation and other LinkedIn members can provide insight or link to relevant articles and continue the discussion.

Companies can review a person’s profile to find and check references ahead of time and interview only people they feel would be a great match with their corporate culture.

Employed individuals can quietly run their own searches at any time to see what’s available, and they can follow up online without taking off a day for an in-person or phone interview.

LinkedIn For Dummies - изображение 13LinkedIn research shows that “people with more than 20 connections are 34 times more likely to be approached with a job opportunity than people with fewer than 5 connections.” Therefore, your connections definitely influence your active or passive job search.

Finding out all kinds of valuable information

Beyond getting information about your job search, you can use the immense LinkedIn database of professionals to find out what skills seem to be the most popular in a certain industry and job title. You can discover how many project managers live within 50 miles of you. You can even find current or past employees of a company and interview them about that job. LinkedIn now has millions of detailed Company pages that show not only company statistics but also recent hires, promotions, changes, and lists of employees closely connected with you. (Read more about Company pages in Chapter 15.)

Best of all, LinkedIn can help you find specific information on a variety of topics. You can do a search to find out the interests of your next sales prospect, the name of a former employee you can talk to about a company you like, or how you can join a start-up in your target industry by reaching out to the co-founder. You can sit back and skim the news, or you can dive in and hunt for the facts. It all depends on what method best fits your goals.

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