You should be LinkedIN!
When you’re in a career transition, you want to utilize all the resources available to you. That only makes sense if you want to secure the best opportunity available as quickly as possible. As a recruiter, I’m certainly hoping you’ll work with Bridge Technical Solutions, but it’s important you also use other networking tools. And the primary networking tool you should use is LinkedIn. LinkedIn has not so quietly become the “go-to” social networking platform for the work-world portion of professionals’ on-line persona. As of this August, they have over 45 million users and in June 2009 they had 16 million unique visitors and 331 million page views. These stats are more than double the June 2008 numbers!
Employers are increasingly using LinkedIn and you need to be visible where companies are actively recruiting in order to get the interview that might lead to your next job! You most likely already have a LinkedIn profile. It’s time to update your profile for the best results. If you don’t have any LinkedIn account, get one now and check out this guide to getting started.
Using LinkedIn isn’t difficult but optimizing your results with it does require some tried and true practices. I will be sharing some of these practices in a presentation titled “Optimizing your LinkedIn Profile” at the SNEC PMI’s Career EXPO on Wednesday, September 16th at the Four Points Sheraton in Meriden, CT. Here’s a registration link. If you’re not able to make it to the EXPO email me joe@bridgetechnicalsolutions.com and I’ll send you a copy of the PowerPoint.
Joe Devine, Partner, Bridge Technical Solutions