LinkedIn 101: Using LinkedIn to Land Your Dream Job Before You Graduate
LinkedIn is helping soon-to-be grads from around the country tap into their professional community—whether they realize they have one already or not.
Trying to land your dream career …
For the longest time, I was a major proponent of accepting LinkedIn invitations from total strangers. “It’s for networking!” I’d proclaim, while clicking that friendly little checkmark to add new people to my network, “There’s no point in connecting with …
If you’ve been applying to opening after opening and not getting any bites (read: interviews or offers), it could be because referred candidates are snagging the roles first.
While you’ve no doubt heard that it’s all about who you know …
You’ve purposely gone out and networked so that you’ll have people to ask for help finding a job.
But instead of responding to you with amazing job openings, they simply say, “Let me know what I can do to help.” …
by Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D.
There are many types of job and career fairs — from ones scheduled on campus for college students to industry-specific ones for professionals — but they all have one common theme: it’s a chance for a company …
