4 Things to know about LinkedIn

Every businessman is familiar of the professional connecting website that makes them more productive and successful. Like any other social networking site, LinkedIn is a platform to connect professionals by creating your personal profile and putting down your career story.

This app not only helps you in lining up your timeline of a profession in a brief way but it also provides job opportunities to people across the world. LinkedIn is not just a house of stored resume but also has vivid categories of opportunities for you like Start-ups and small businesses, Venture Capital and Private Equity. It can be quite trailing to understand that you can also use LinkedIn to find experienced professionals for their dream team since it is the first resource to recruit a management team.

However, using this networking platform can be pretty complex in understanding how it will become your true companion in finding the best for you!

Boon for the Employers

LinkedIn is home to stored resumes where lakhs of people upload their skills and experience in order to reach recruiters. It is, therefore, a boon for the job hunter to add extensive information of their experience which they couldn’t include on the paper resume. This networking site works by enabling you to analyse and make recommendations and suggestions from previous employers of any organisation. It is also a beneficial platform to hirers who don’t actually need to wade through piles of documents to eliminate candidates.

 Independent Contractor’s guide


Any Independent contractor can simply list their business in the Service Providers directory and linearly send business updates to the connected networks on LinkedIn. One can also create a group to discuss topics related to their business. The contractor is also free to ask their clients on LinkedIn to recommend them while they establish their expertise on the platform by answering various questions. This expertise is also enhanced by including references to articles and books one has quoted or written.

Build a Home Business


This valuable source of career helps one to start and emerge gigantic by growing a home business providing you with an opportunity to communicate and collaborate with other professionals online interested in partnering while sharing knowledge. One can easily get online endorsements and recommendations through this medium for their professional abilities by getting introduced to potential clients, customers and colleagues.

Nurture your network


LinkedIn is packed up with the feature of the new real-time messaging interface allowing you to text any of your connection virtually which makes it easier to keep the conversations seamless with connections. One can also refine their search using filter options sorting people by locations, mutual connections, current and past companies, Industries, language, non-profit interests and schools. 

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