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Staying Connected on LinkedIn

Submitted by Brian Altenhofel on February 16, 2011 - 7:17am

Facebook is geared more toward networking with friends and family. If you want to network with professionals, including many great connections at Fortune 100 companies, then you need to be on LinkedIn.

A LinkedIn profile is becoming indispensible in the modern job market. Some employers might look at your profile as an extension of your résumé. Others might even recruit you for employment through the site. Either way, LinkedIn is a great avenue for self-marketing.

Need a Job? Get LinkedIn

Submitted by Brian Altenhofel on August 27, 2010 - 9:00am

This post wraps up my series this week on why you need to get your social media profiles in order before you go job hunting. First, we talked about cleaning up Facebook. Wednesday, we talked about watching what you tweet. Today, we will make sure that you have your LinkedIn profile ready.

LinkedIn Phishing Scam Alert

Submitted by Brian Altenhofel on August 14, 2010 - 7:44am

I have been receiving a lot of invitations to connect recently that are fake. What they all have in common (so far) is that the "connection" claims to be a Colleague at Interbrand. I also just received one today that looked like a reminder that you have many unread messages in your LinkedIn Inbox.

I personally have not clicked these because I have a habit of going directly to the website myself. I suggest that you do the same.

How to Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You

Submitted by Brian Altenhofel on July 6, 2010 - 9:00am

Millions of professionals are on the social networking website LinkedIn, and you should be, too.  But you shouldn't treat your LinkedIn profile as a necessary red-headed stepchild; you should treat it in such a way to help control what people find when they search for you online.

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