When I heard about LinkedIn the idea fascinated me. Get
together with millions of professionals, discuss intelligent topic, hire and
get hired etc. Just afterwards the
routine changed. Spending hours a day to create good profile, finding match
professional and start connecting with them, joining groups ,giving own views
and asking others views.
LinkedIn can be real boon if we know how to use it.
Especially for fresher’s it can be portal for referral too. I started asking my
school friends, college friends and friends of profession if they are in
LinkedIn, some said yes and some said no. Many raised the counter question what
is LinkedIn?
LinkedIn is a social networking site for professionals and
companies. It helps you too find the right match i.e., right job for your
qualification and qualities. Apart from it, it takes you to the large global
market, make you know about various new happenings, researches, innovation and
discoveries. There are thousands of HR professionals who might hunt you, if
they found you are needed for their companies and also there are companies who
will ask you to disclose your LinkedIn profile in their career portals
too.
When I was searching the ways to make my LinkedIn profile
fruitful I searched a lot. Read the various article published in LinkedIn by
various professionals, followed LinkedIn pulse, followed the ideas of various
authors etc. Here are the some tips that I gathered, which can be useful for
you too.
1.
Just don’t create LinkedIn when you need it
This is the greatest mistake I did but you shouldn't
do the same mistake. Just start creating LinkedIn connections now. If you don’t
need it now, it can be great help in future.
Just take part in group and start being noticed. Try to get the top
contributor badge in few groups of your interest and profession. Surround
yourself with diligent people; who are far more superior and experienced than
you. It will help you to broaden your mind thinking.
2. Choose hero
picture
Be sure, you are looking the best. The
photo should be in your professional attire as far as possible. Second thing
about photo is don’t put selfie type photo like in Facebook. You mustn't use
certain photos like showing peace sign, unnatural expression of your mouth, face
and eyes, group photos etc. Your photo must be as latest as it could be.
3.
Re-visit
your goals
At the most basic level: LinkedIn is all
about marketing yourself. Who are you
isn't as important as what you want to accomplish, so think about your goals
and convert your goals into keywords.
4.
Strip out
the clutter
This might be the most important point to
consider while making your LinkedIn Profile marketable. Just cut the things which are totally
unnecessary. Today what you have achieved in grade 3 or 4 is irrelevant. So don’t
bother to disclose it. Secondly, you needn't disclose all the job experience
you have. For example: you have worked in hotel as a waiter for financing your
studies, now you are applying for the post of manager or anything you shouldn't
disclose it. But if you are applying in hotel industries, please disclose your
experience as a waiter too.
5.
Don’t
forget to care and share
The easiest way to frequently update and
customize your profile is to share and care.
The article, blog post, videos you share comes in your activity stream
and it will certainly help you too reach the desired position. Second thing is
to care; care what your connections like, create those type but professional
discussion, comment in the same way. Don’t forget millions of professional
might be watching you.
6.
Recommend
and ask to be recommended
Careful guys, it’s not easy task. You have
to think thousands time before you recommend about others. Take care what you
are writing and it should be matched with the profile of the person to whom you
are recommending. Recommending others will help you to increase your profile
views as you can be seen in others profile too.
Asking recommendation is a great challenge.
Don’t ask recommendation from those whom you don’t know very well. No one can
recommend about you just viewing your profile.
7.
Don’t be
generic
This point is what you need to understand
the most.
“I’d like to add you to my professional
network on LinkedIn”
How much busy might you be, but for the
gods shake don’t use this same auto-generated message. Let the person whom you
are trying to be connected know how much precious s/he is for you. Think for
some time, view their profile and create own message. This might boost your
connection.
Additionally it is advised not to mention
words like highly professional, familiar with, team player, problem solver in
your description. Just describe your qualities like what makes you highly
professional and so on. Those are words used by lazy person.
Happy reading
Don’t forget to share this article, comment
your views and share your experience with LinkedIn. I was posted from LinkedIn
referral. So it is my great experience.
You can reach me in LinkedIn
Step 1: go to search box and type “
Dipendra Prasad Poudel .”
Step 2: click on connect button
Step 3: If you were my classmate, colleague
then you can choose those option.
Step 4: if not go to other option and type my
email address “ mailfordipendra@gmail.com”
Your Fan
Dipendra Prasad Poudel
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