Improve Your LinkedIn Profile Picture and be Successful Every Time
You want to succeed with your business? Whether it is online or off-line, LinkedIn can be an excellent resource. Out of all of the different social media websites out there, LinkedIn is the only one that is created specifically for the purposes of doing business. To help you get jobs, you can use the site as well. They use it to help them find clients. They use it to network. Setting up a profile on the site is not all you have to do to find success with social media site. Is there a specific way to find success with LinkedIn? Using this website, you can find success – let’s begin.
Whereas with most social sites, it’s a simple matter to make a new connection, it’s not quite as easy on LinkedIn. On most sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, you can choose to become friends with almost anyone (though they can decide whether or not to accept). LinkedIn only gives you access to people who know someone you’re already connected with. Of course, there are ways around this. You can, for example, join a group that the person you want to meet belongs to. Get involved in threads that the person is active on. Soon you won’t be strangers anymore and then you can invite him/her to connect.
There are lots of different things you can link to your LinkedIn profile. You can join up your RSS, Twitter, and other things too. Save yourself some time and link all of the different portals and things to your LinkedIn profile. This will save you a lot of reporting stress. You will save so much time this way. It also helps you keep your profile updated. At the same time, just because you can link it doesn’t mean you should. Only think the things that you are sure will help you put your very best feet forward.
The profile you build should have it’s very own URL. You can do this with just about all of your social media profiles. Choose a URL that is actually related to your business. If you are able to do this, pick out a URL that is the same as the one you picked out through the other social media mediums. Give it some thought. Don’t you take websites much more seriously when they have their own domain names and aren’t simply using the URLs of free sites on which they are hosted? Shouldn’t LinkedIn be the same way?
There are all sorts of things that you can do to raise the success you find with the LinkedIn system. This article has talked about just a few of the options available to you. These steps are easy to take and you can do them all today! Instead of sitting there worrying and wondering, you should be getting to work!
BY: Sarah Berry
Boost your Career Progression through LinkedIn
LinkedIn is an excellent way to boost your career. Your LinkedIn profile acts as your online reference and allows you to boost your job hunt and career progression.
Searching for a new career direction
Your LinkedIn Profile needs to:
- Rank top of search terms so employers, headhunters and recruiters can find you.
- Sell your hard skills, value and professional expertise.
- Engage with employers and present a good image of you.
- Allow you to tap into new job markets through your posts, group membership and skill endorsements.
- Alert you to new opportunities and allow you to reach out to headhunters and hiring managers.
Boost your career prospects and job hunt by developing your LinkedIn profile to the next level.