LinkedIn is a tool too effective not to seriously consider!
Career Management July 31st, 2008If you’re not yet on LinkedIn, you need to be. Whatever the reason is for not being on LinkedIn, there is a 99% chance there is a better reason for using it!
When you google your name, what comes up? Can you imagine googling a company and not finding anything on it?
If you’d like a hiring manager to see others’ untampered recommendation of your services, LinkedIn is a tool you must use!
What are reasons people use for not being on LinkedIn?
- I don’t want to be contacted. The day is most likely coming when you will want to be googled and contacted by a hiring manager interested in offering you a position.
- I don’t want to ask others for recommendations of my services. Actually, what I have found for my clients and myself is that most people are glad to recommend our services if they see we have given them value.
Imagine being googled and people being impressed with you because of what others have said about you on your LinkedIn profile. People have actually been contacted and eventually hired because of LinkedIn!
- I’m too busy. The time to build your network is when you are busy since that is a time when you have the most opportunity to find people to recommend your service!
I offer a session on how to set up LinkedIn. If you’re interested, contact me at Terri@SummitViewCareerCoaching.com. Or, if you would like to see other career coaching services, go to Summit View Career Coaching. I’d be glad to meet with you for a complimentary, confidential 20-minute coaching session.
Enjoy Monday morning as much as Friday afternoon!
