subject: 4 Reasons You Must Join LinkedIn For Your Career Building Plan and Winning Job Search Now [print this page] 4 Reasons You Must Join LinkedIn For Your Career Building Plan and Winning Job Search Now
LinkedIn has over 65,000,000 members today and is growing by tens of thousands per hour every day. You simply cannot afford not to be part of this professional network. Recruiters and companies rely on LinkedIn to find staff, to determine the skills staff should have, and to look into difficult business issues seeing what others in their industries are doing. Some industry and professional groups have over 100,000 members. Literally hundreds of groups have thousands and tens of thousands of members. The industry and business interplay is at and growing to levels never before seen.
After that exciting intro, you may be asking yourself, why bother with the rest of this article? Because this article is enumerating several of the most critical reasons to be part of LinkedIn. They include:
LinkedIn allows you to find key persons in key companies you are interested in or should be interested in for your career plan. Many CEOs and tens of thousands of recruiters are on LinkedIn. You aren't connected to them without a membership to this network.
LinkedIn allows you to reach out to members for references on the companies you are interested in pursuing. Often you can even find out details and background on the very individuals you may interview with--as well as interesting details about those companies, the opportunities they offer, and the issues they face as you study the discussions and profiles of the employees actually in these businesses.
LinkedIn gives you a venue in professional, networking, and other groups through which you can build credibility, develop relationships, and connect more closely with what is going on in the industry and companies you are interested in learning about.
Perhaps most straightforward of all, LinkedIn is a system where you can more tightly connect with your existing contacts and quickly grow your network of contacts in your industry. LinkedIn provides network updates, group updates, connection notifications, and discussion updates that will make you more currently involved with your network than you have ever been in minutes a week.
The smart professional will make joining LinkedIn a priority. They will spend the time to post a detailed, complete and quality profile. They will join and become involved in several industry groups and professional groups most important to them. They will work steadily using group discussions and questions and answers to build their own network. They will do this because there is no easier, more simple, more direct way to positively impact their career and if they are searching for a job, to win the position of their choice.
