Job Hunting on LinkedIn

Getting your profile accurate and attractive just has to be one of the best ways of marketing yourself and if you can get past employers to post testimonials ( LinkedIn call them recommendations) this surely must go along way to raising your profile and increasing your chances of getting back into/ looking for a new job.

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LinkedIn requires the same politeness as offline networking…

Whether you network online or offline you need to be polite, courteous and friendly. LinkedIn offers you default messages which are generally short, sharp and unfriendly! Online and offline networking is precisely the same; it’s simply building relationships. By all means use standard messages (with some personal bits added) but don’t use the ones LinkedIn give you!

Good manners, courtesy and respect are the basis of building new and maintaining existing relationships. Act in a similar manner with your LinkedIn connections as you would when working the room at any business event.

I have written a special report on this, including several personalised messages that can be tailored for your LinkedIn business development. Contact me if you would like a copy.

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Recommendations on LinkedIn

One of the best marketing tools is to get satisfied clients and customers to say positive words about you, which, if allowed, you can send to prospects. Get those words on your website and all other marketing materials so you have third party endorsements.
Recommendations (normally known as testimonials) need to be an important part of your profile. In fact, to have your profile at 100%, which increases your standing in Google, you actually need three recommendations. I have over 50 recommendations which I can use as part of my marketing.

A cynical friend of mine recently suggested if you get too many recommendations people start to get suspicious and maybe check you out further. ‘Ah, the reason he gets lots of recommendations is because he has joined a mutual appreciation society!’. In some cases it might be true but not for me. I would never give anyone a recommendation just to get one back. I give them to people in my network where I genuinely believe they deserve it.

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