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Developing an Attractive LinkedIn Profile
Advice on how to create a LinkedIn profile that boosts your job search
How to Write a LinkedIn Recommendation (With Examples)
A LinkedIn recommendation is a powerful tool that can enhance an individual's professional brand and credibility. Think of it as a personal testimony, showcasing someone's skills, accomplishments, and character to potential employers. With 95% of recruiters diving...
Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile with ChatGPT: Best Strategies (With Prompts)
With over 930 million members spread across 200 countries, LinkedIn is the world's largest platform for graduates and professionals. It is a powerful hub for finding employment opportunities, building networks, hiring talent, and more. Thus, it's no surprise that...
How to Ask for LinkedIn Recommendations
LinkedIn is now one of the most preferred hiring tools, used by over 87% of recruiters. So, it is no surprise that creating a great LinkedIn profile for yourself can form an integral part of your job search process. While optimizing your profile generally only...
Tips & Tricks to Enhance Your LinkedIn Presence
If you are looking for a job in today’s market, you probably already know that having a LinkedIn profile is important. If you already have one, that’s great. At a minimum, you must ensure that it has a quality photo, about section, work experience, and education. But,...
LinkedIn Trends 2022
“LinkedIn is no longer an online resume. It’s your digital reputation”. LinkedIn is a lot more than an online resume. While it may have started out like that, today, LinkedIn is crucial in connecting you with your employer of choice, building your personal brand, and...
7 Best SEO Tips for Your LinkedIn Profile
Your LinkedIn profile is more than just a social media platform, a job search site, and an online resume. Over the years, it has proven its reputation as one of the most invaluable tools for personal branding and professional networking. With more than 800 million...
Updating Your LinkedIn Profile for a Career Change
Changing careers is a time-consuming process. It requires effort, the right resources, and an effective strategy. When making a career shift, your resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile play a crucial role. While we have talked about how to optimize your resume...
5 Reasons to Have a LinkedIn Profile
LinkedIn is a social media platform dedicated to professional networking and collaboration. It was founded in 2003 with a vision to create economic opportunity for every member by simply connecting professionals. Today, it is the world’s largest professional network,...
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Networking on LinkedIn
All the LinkedIn networking best practices you need as a candidate
How to Connect with Recruiters on LinkedIn (With Examples)
Like many job seekers, you may also be looking for a job opportunity on LinkedIn. And why not? With over 58 million companies and over 87% of recruiters regularly using LinkedIn, it is no surprise. LinkedIn, when used correctly, could get you your next job. While most...
Top LinkedIn Trends for Job Seekers
Whether you’re looking to move into a different field and change careers or just looking for a better opportunity, you may want to leverage the pot of gold that is LinkedIn. Social media has become an increasingly popular recruitment tool with LinkedIn taking the lead...
LinkedIn Networking Trends 2022
According to LinkedIn, about 60% of professionals agree that keeping in touch with their online network helps with their job search. Additionally, about 70% of the people in 2016 were hired at a company where they had a connection. Thus, it wouldn’t be wrong to say...
How to Engage with Relevant LinkedIn Content
Anyone using social media cannot deny the power of a simple ‘like’ on a post. Many of us log in multiple times a day just to check the number of likes on our recently uploaded post. This is pretty much true for any social media platform, including LinkedIn. Since...
LinkedIn Networking Etiquette- Dos and Don’ts
Imagine walking up to a stranger and saying, “Hello, do you have a job for me?”. Would it work? Of course not! Then why do some of us send random, untargeted messages to complete strangers on LinkedIn? LinkedIn is a platform to cultivate relationships, but it can only...
LinkedIn Networking Trends 2021
3 people are hired every minute on LinkedIn. Over the years, LinkedIn has positioned itself as the biggest networking platform. Thus, the first thought that usually comes to mind when you hear networking is LinkedIn. In this article, we will discuss some effective...
How to Create Engaging Content on LinkedIn
The need to remain connected, entertained and informed during the pandemic resulted in a massive increase in the use of social media. LinkedIn turned out to be one such platform that experienced a surge in its activities. In the last 12 months, more than a billion...
How to Get Hired by Creating Content
How do you stand out when applying for a job? Well, this could be a tough question to answer, but once you figure it out, it can give you a lead. While there is more than one way to stand out, let’s discuss an easy one today- LinkedIn content creation! Creating...
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Networking Offline
Tips & tricks for offline networking
Differences between Offline and Online Networking
Professional networking has proved to be a valuable resource in a job search. While offline networking took a backseat during the pandemic, online networking gained momentum. However, both have their own characteristics and benefits. With everything going back to...
Optimizing Offline Networking in Your Job Search
There is hardly any doubt that professional networking has paved the way to success for many professionals. However, most candidates focus on developing relationships and building their networks only online. Due to the pandemic, while online networking is the most...
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Professional Networking Templates
Templates to accelerate your networking success
Templates to Request a Networking Meeting
In our previous article on networking outreach templates, we spoke about some effective ways to reach out to your target audience. But once you’ve established a connection with them, what’s next? You need to approach them to speak with you one-to-one over a call. This...
Professional Networking Outreach Templates
In our other articles on professional networking, we have explored the best practice of networking and how you can optimize your LinkedIn profile to strengthen your networking strategy. In this article, we will take you a step closer to an efficient networking...
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Professional Networking Tools
The best networking tools to accelerate your job search
CRM Tools to Manage your Network
A Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system allows businesses to organize and manage relationships with their customers/prospects. It develops a database of customer activities, keeping track of leads. A personal CRM is an adaptation of this system to help...
Best Apps for Professional Networking
Networking with professionals to develop relationships is quite a task. You need to focus on multiple aspects such as finding the right people, reaching out in the most efficient manner, putting efforts into knowing them, helping them know you, setting up meetings,...
Tools to Uplift Your Networking Practices
About 35% of professionals from a study said that casual conversations on LinkedIn led to new opportunities. Despite this, professional networking is an undervalued and underutilized asset for a job search. In our other articles, we have explained the benefits of...