Do you feel like this in Linked-IN?
- it doesn’t seems to work?
- it doesn’t bringyou jobs?
- no ones look at your profile?
- you are not member of any group and you don’t know why you should be a member
LinkedIn is not only a recruitment tool and it doesn’t work alone, you have to start capitalizing its value by following those 7 steps below:
- Look over your profile by valuing what format is better for your profile and how you should explain your qualities and background
- Join more than 40 groups, Groups are the biggest arm of LinkedIn so you need to join them to take advantage of it
- Score the group digest
- Spend time every day in Linked-In looking for interesting groups and themes and value this time as an investment for the growth of the company
- Engage in discussions: Being part of groups but not talking doesn’t have a lot of sense… Add comments in the conversation that result interesting for others and that add them value. If so, they would go to your profile and connect with you.
- By initiating a conversation and posting interesting comments you can be considered as an influencer of the group!
- Connect: Through Linked-In you can search for people that you want to connect with and scan their profile to verify that they have interesting qualities for you. After that, you can connect with and wait for them to accept you. It can also be the other way around and someone can be searching for someone with your background and ask you for connection. After connecting, you would move the conversation offline and start building a business network with that person or institution
- Reevaluate
Every 3 months value the groups you are member and change they don’t fit in your interest anymore but, FIND NEW CONNECTIONS in NEW GROUPS!