Author Topic: How useful is Linkedin? (Read 1854 times)

fizzer · « **Reply #15 on:** May 02, 2012, 08:58:18 PM »

It's a pretty good service if you use it together with a contact harvester like Plaxo (which reads through all your emails and adds to your contact list anyone you've emailed to or from or forwarded emails from). Together, they give you a pretty good idea of how connected you and your contacts are with others.

fizzer · « **Reply #16 on:** May 06, 2012, 04:29:32 PM »

When 'done right', you can be recruited by a few top firms seeking 'relevant' talent. Having an account sitting there with a bunch of useless connections is not going to help you in anyway.

MikeTucker · « **Reply #17 on:** May 06, 2012, 11:23:36 PM »

Thank you for the stolen & spun junk posts,
Mr. SPAMbot.

clerks · « **Reply #18 on:** May 20, 2012, 11:09:32 PM »

I found reading somewhere that LinkedIn played an instrumental part in my expeditious return to the workforce after an unexpected lay off in April.

Jon · « **Reply #19 on:** June 04, 2012, 09:38:51 AM »

Well said Mike

Points are being missed.

Linked-In is extremely good for marketing, but it will largely depend on the audience you are targetting as it will 'tend' to be business people on the site.

You can build up an audience on linked in by first creating contacts with people who you already know and trust, ideally people who are interested in your industry or subject matter. If you can find these people, then you are off to a good start. Once you have struck up these links, you can then begin to browse their connections as some of those people may also have a similar set of interests. These are your second level connections, then work on your third level and so on and so forth.

By building up a list of connections in this way, you are close to ensuring that you will be growing a relevant audience to have discussion with, but you need to discuss things with them also.

Check out what discussions these people are in, get involved if those discussions cover your subject matter and of course, try to connect to other people within those discussions.

Do all of the above and you can create a strong audience on linked in and not just a list of recruiters

Jon

williamluke · « **Reply #20 on:** July 19, 2012, 07:11:24 AM »

Linkedin is for professional user,mostly people use linkedin for business resources,some uses for employment or some just getting useful information...

minimal · « **Reply #21 on:** July 23, 2012, 11:10:09 PM »

It's a pretty big site and it's available worldwide, so it does open a few doors if you have an interesting CV.

cwillhfaw · « **Reply #22 on:** October 19, 2012, 03:12:40 PM »

LinkedIn is by far the most professional social media website, it's most useful for people who are job seeking/recruiting or those wanting to join in with groups and forums with people of similar interests or follow industry trends and news. I do think it is something that the more you use it and the longer you are a memebr and actively participate the better or more useful it becomes.