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Why use LinkedIn? First of all, you need network
that suits your industry, it’s not enough to have lots of friends from your
class or your campus you need a network of people within your career interests,
how can you easily build one, the answer is; create a LinkedIn account, update
your profile and keep it professional, that is anything that pertains to your
professional qualifications, work experience and specific hard skills be up to
date. Then search and create connections with your colleagues these could be your
classmates or just simply friends and people in your industry, these are the
same people to endorse you in specific fields of your specialization. Industry groups can offer you value and
connection. Groups create a platform where participants share and exchange
ideas on professional issues and practically offers you a chance as an
expertise in the given field to contribute and comment on issues that are being
discussed. Also groups offer a forum for questions where you can ask questions
and have them answered, typically it’s like a brainstorming session. By
offering your expertise to those in your network you establish trust and
improve your reputation as an expert. Sharing your credentials; this includes your
current level of education, work experience and hardy skills. In other word
LinkedIn is an online expanded resume where you can typically place anything
that won’t fit in a normal resume. It comes in handy when updating your CV
since sometimes it proves a daunting task when you need to correctly input
start and end dates in case the CV has to be presented within a short notice,
hence the need to have correct details in your profile. In case you are
applying for that job, just share your profile with the recruiter. Case on witchcraft and curse claim splits family General Ogolla: Politics aside, no technology anywhere is fool-proof Hosts your recommendations; looking at your
profile one sees what others have taken time to say about you. And you can
easily request your friends to recommend you within just a few clicks. You can
also publish your knowledge. It allows individuals share posts that help them
showcase their knowledge on a certain field; this can help you legitimize
yourself as an expert in that field. This simply means that in this era, social
networking is simply indispensable, and that goes without saying that LinkedIn
for a professional is the ultimate tool
What is LinkedIn? Simply LinkedIn is a professional social networking site
launched in 2003 and since its launch it has recorded over 450 million users
worldwide. Unlike other social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, snapchat,
and Flickr this site is purely professional hence it goes beyond saying that
you shouldn’t post that which is unprofessional. It’s unfortunate that a large
number of students haven’t realized the need to build networks while they are
still proceeding with their studies. READ MORE
Why you need that LinkedIn account
By michael munene
| Oct. 26, 2016
