How To Find and Get a Job on LinkedIn

Knowing how to find a job on LinkedIn is essential in today’s economy. The first step would be by creating a profile on LinkedIn website, this profile will include your employment history (including current job) as well as your education. Including keywords and skills that pertain to you.

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The next step you have to take would be to build your LinkedIn network, the more connections the better chance of being called up for an interview. Connect with people whom you know and have a business relationship with. Getting recommendations from them would also be very helpful as it shows trust in your abilities. f you see a hiring manager at a company you would like to apply to, see if you know anyone he knows and find a way to connect with him or her.

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Those steps highlighted above will at least get you started and possibly get you leads. Next you would want to apply for jobs. LinkedIn is really a great site to find the jobs you want. You can search profiles in your area, pertaining to your field and qualifications.

See Also: How to Get a Job Using Social Media

You could also check the company pages included on LinkedIn to see if they are hiring. It even lists the most recent hires, you can see where they came from and their qualifications, you could message them and ask for tips and tricks in landing a job with that company. By now you should have a substantial list of places you would like to work at.

Next you would apply for available jobs at the companies that you have so far discovered in the previous steps. LinkedIn is a very powerful site for finding and obtaining a job, if you know how to use it properly you will have a lot of success. It should be remembered that the most important thing is connections. With high unemployment, employers are seeing a lot of resumes come in. So spending as much time as you can building connections will help you so much. If you properly know how to use LinkedIn, you will almost certainly find employment if you are persistent.

See Also: How To Look For a Job With Facebook

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LinkedIn partners with YouTube to offer easier B2B video ads

LinkedIn is making it much easier for businesses to advertise for B2B connections on its site, partnering with YouTube to allow businesses to upload their own video ads.

LinkedIn occupies a strange place in social media. It’s never been a particularly “hot” site, nor is it one that’s often considered during discussions of social media sites that are particularly well-traveled, but nonetheless, it’s become a successful niche destination for professional networking; a day doesn’t go by without getting some form of request for connection, endorsement or some other form of interaction, suggesting a high level of participation from members. And now, the site is planning to offer yet another way in which users can be touched by companies and corporations on the site: Video ads.

According to a post on SocialTimes, LinkedIn is partnering with YouTube to replace the existing 300 x 250 video ads on the site with new videos from YouTube that will be reformatted to work on the site. The new ads will play for 30 seconds, before offering viewers the opportunity to click through to a website to learn more about the company, and are said to be ad spaces to promote “a complex B2B [business to business] service [or communicate] an inspiring brand message,” according to the site.

The new video ads appear to be a response to the drop in marketing revenue made by LinkedIn so far in 2012, compared with the previous year (Marketing revenue amounted for 28 percent of total Q2 revenue for the company, compared with 32 percent for the same period in 2011). Explaining the drop on an investor call earlier this year, SVP and Chief Financial Officer for the company, Steve Sordello said that the “self-serve LinkedIn Ads platform continued to outpace overall site page views, although revenue declined slightly versus the first quarter as field sales absorbed more of the available inventory.” He added, however, that “Click-through rates and CPCs steadily improved versus last year and in addition to working to drive further engagement on the site, we continue to look for new ways to add inventory for our self-serve channel.”

That last point is where these new video ads come in, apparently. When asked about the origin of the new system, a LinkedIn spokesperson responded by saying that the company is “always exploring new ways to drive engagement, and bringing new products like video ads is part of our larger plan to do so.”

With a recent report from the Content Marketing Institute announcing that LinkedIn is the number one resource for business to business content marketing online – An impressive 83 percent of B2B marketers apparently use LinkedIn to distribute content, compared with 80 percent using Facebook or Twitter – it’s possible that these “do it yourself” video opportunities will be exactly what LinkedIn needed to raise its marketing bottom line. The question may be: When will regular users get a chance to add their own YouTube content to their profiles?

Source : digitaltrends[dot]com

LinkedIn rolls out skill endorsements, and it’s as easy as one-click

LinkedIn now allows users to endorse their network's skills and expertise with one click.

LinkedIn has introduced a new one-click endorsement feature that makes it quick and easy to promote your friend or colleague’s skills.

You’ll notice on your LinkedIn page that skills and expertise have taken up a significant amount of real estate, in effect pushing down your experiences to highlight them, as well as your endorsements. Now, your LinkedIn network can choose to endorse you simply by selecting the plus sign associated with the skill and expertise. Your network can even elect to recommend a skill that you haven’t added to your profile page.

Each person that endorses a skill on a LinkedIn page has their profile photo tagged next to the action as well. Those who have endorsed you will appear at left of the skill’s title and you can view all endorsements in a new window if you want.

In addition to endorsing individuals one by one, you can choose to endorse multiple connections at once.

When you receive an endorsement from your contact,you’ll be notified on the site as well as via email.

This new method should provide a simpler and less invasive way of offering kudos for someone’s work, though it does give visitors to your profile a look at the skills that you claim to have and how many of your co-workers, employers, or friends will vouch for them. Unlike with recommendations, LinkedIn isn’t yet allowing you to ask your network for endorsements.

If there’s one feature that we can liken it to, it would have to be Klout’s +K influence feature, which allows you to indicate which of your Klout connections are topic experts. You could also see the resemblance to Facebook’s Like button, where in this case it’s tailored specifically to your skill set.

The endorsement feature has debuted in the United States, India, New Zealand, and Australia in the English language, but the feature will support other languages in the coming weeks. It appears that LinkedIn is currently rolling it out gradually as some users have the feature enabled on their profile while others do not.

You can view LinkedIn slide show below for more information on LinkedIn Endorsements.

Source : digitaltrends[dot]com

Mobile LinkedIn apps get updated with new features

The Android and iOS mobile LinkedIn apps got new updates today. They bring new features, notifications and languages.

If you are using one of those mobile apps, the update should be waiting for you in your Play/App Store.

Here is the official change log for the new LinkedIn version:

On iPhone and Android:
• Get notified: We will keep you notified in real-time when someone likes what you’ve shared on LinkedIn, views your profile, accepts your invitation, and much more.
• Company pages goes mobile: Find out which connections work at the companies you care about, see recent news and updates from the company, and learn about current job openings.
• Don’t want your employer to know you’re looking?: We’ve recently added access to job listings and jobs you may be interested in directly within your mobile update stream.

On the iPad:
• We speak 6 new languages: Did you know more than 60% of our members are based outside the US? Today, we launched in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean. More to come.
• Notifications and Company Pages: Also available on iPad!

Here are the links for LinkedIn apps: iOS • Android

Source : blog[dot]gsmarena[dot]com

LinkedIn begins rolling out notification feature to increase user engagement

LinkedIn announced that it is deploying a notification feature that will alert users about new likes, comments, views and other interactions.

LinkedIn is finally adopting another feature that you find in nearly all other social networks. Today the professional networking platform announced a notification feature that will keep you updated in real-time with the latest interactions between your connections and your content.

For instance, users will now receive a notification about articles that their network has shared from their homepage, updates about profiles views, as well as alerts of accepted connections.

Previously, content published on LinkedIn’s homepage would share the same retail space with a user’s personal updates, and connection confirmations would often get buried amid the shared content. Until now, there was no alert system of any kind, save for an easily-missed update on how many views your profile had accumulated over the week. While this information was available, it wasn’t brought to users’ attention. And timing, as many of us know in a competitive job market, is everything.

The new feature will appear on your profile as an envelope and a flag icon. The envelope icon will open up the messages in your inbox, while the flag will open up any relevant personal notifications. Every time you receive a new message or the latest notification, including comments, likes, accepted connection requests and others, a red circle will appear.

While the new feature offers its users the convenience of parting the personal notifications from their network’s content, the motivation behind the implementation of the feature is to keep its users constantly checking the site. It’s a strategy that not only reels users back onto social networks like Facebook, but dating sites like OKCupid make use of the rather addictive notification feature as well. These notifications should keep users more engaged with LinkedIn, particularly when the professional network releases the notification features to Android, iPhone and iPad devices.

Of course at the end of the day, the changes are fiscally motivated. When comparing LinkedIn to Facebook, LinkedIn’s users, spend far fewer minutes per month engaging with the site. Users on LinkedIn spend approximately 18 minutes per month, while Facebook users spend on average 6.35 hours per month. As LinkedIn follows in Facebook’s footsteps, it in fact has much room for improvement.

To LinkedIn’s merit howver, the company garners more revenue per minute spent on the site. LinkedIn rakes in $1.30 per user per hour, while Facebook receives just 62 cents per user per hour.

Some of you may not see the new feature appear right away, according to LinkedIn. But all members should see that their profiles have been updated within a few weeks.

Source : digitaltrends[dot]com