When it comes to social media, there’s a lot more going on in some of these platforms than just e-commerce. Social media is having a big impact on the job world as well. One platform in particular is getting a lot of attention from professionals in all sorts of fields.
Even before its prominent IPO, the LinkedIn platform was becoming synonymous with social media for career professionals. No real competitive platform has ever emerged, although a lot of people also do job-related networking with Facebook. However, LinkedIn is specifically designed and made for professional interaction, which is why so many people in so many industries have created their own vibrant career profiles and use of tools like LinkedIn’s Inmail when everybody already has an e-mail account.
So what’s great about LinkedIn? Why should you pursue this type of networking?
A Unique Impression
One of the things that LinkedIn allows you to do is to show visitors, at a glance, the best parts of your career and the values that you bring to the table. You can do this with bullet points in your profile, but you can also pick and choose from available skill sets built into the platform and get actual recommendations from other people.
This embodies that principle and philosophy that’s commonly held these days – trust, but verify. People want evidence of big claims — they want to see that you can actually walk the walk in terms of job skills. Having recommendations and endorsements from other people gives your resume a lot of ballast.
Networking
Yes, LinkedIn also provides a unique kind of networking environment.
If you don’t go to a lot of conferences and trade shows, you can still make contacts on the platform and rub shoulders with a lot of different people from different areas of your profession. LinkedIn is an easy digital way to send business contact information, or have a discussion about a project, without having to create a specific space for that conversation.
Again, a lot of the utility of LinkedIn is its at-a-glance presentation of a person’s history. It’s not just a blank page like a resume — get interactive with tools and features that allow other people to vouch for you in key ways.
Consistent HR Policy
Human resources departments love consistency. In past years, they’ve used specific vendor enterprise products to do consistent job searches. But LinkedIn also offers a busy HR department the ability to look through a field of candidates in a consistent way, without spending a lot of money on packaged software. So many HR departments are doing just that. They’re going to LinkedIn first, which is why it behooves job seekers to really have a presence there.
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