Blog Post: LinkedIn as a Job Search Tool

Use of LinkedIn by recruiters and job seekers has been growing recently and many job seekers now use it to find contacts at their target companies who can help them educate themselves about the company, to get an inside look at particular positions or to perform due diligence and follow-up on negotiating job offers.

LinkedIn has more than 13 million registered users, across 150 industries more than 400 economic / geographic regions.

Users create and maintain a list of contacts containing the details of people they know and trust.

This contact list can be searched and the contacts list of each contact two levels below can be searched for a variety of purposes.

Job seekers who can identify hiring managers can determine whether one of their existing contacts can introduce them.

Jobs, people and business opportunities can be recommended by anyone in your contact network.

Employers can create job listings and search for qualified candidates.

The ways you can use LinkedIn to enhace your job search is only limited by your imagination.

If you want to know a little bit more about LinkedIn you can comment here with questions. 

If you want to know a lot more, a local Phoenix company is making Linkedin Training available via online webinars. If you want to learn more about how to use LinkedIn in your job search, to grow your network and to contact hiring managers at your target companies, you might want to consider this quick and easy way to get up to speed on using the online networking capabilities of LinkedIn to your best advantage.

LinkedIn Training - Two more sessions in August

The LinkedIn® Hands-on Webinar (tm) training sessions for beginning LinkedIn users removes all of the mystery and provides clear, hands-on guidance for getting started with LinkedIn and growing a viable, useful, and productive network of people you know and people who know you and can help you in your job search.   Two additional online training sessions are available in August August 23rd August 28th

Webinars are Scheduled from:12:00pm - 2:30pm Pacific Time Investment:

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Thank you,  

Bill Austin

Scottsdale Job Network

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