Wednesday, August 1, 2018

LinkedIn 101: Get a Job Before You Graduate

LinkedIn vs. résumé from Learning LinkedIn for Students by Oliver Schinkten

By Hilary Sehring, Search Marketing Specialist - Careers | LinkedIn Talent Solutions

LinkedIn connects qualified candidates with companies and organizations that crave top talent. With 546+ million professionals in the LinkedIn community, there’s no other place where you can access such a wide range of knowledge, skills and resources to help you reach your goals.


  Why LinkedIn?
    80% of LinkedIn members consider professional networking to be important to new job opportunities and career success.
    70% of people were hired at a company where they had a connection.
     More than 20 million professionals (including recruiters, hiring managers and decision makers) use LinkedIn weekly.

Let Us Do the Search for You
With search alerts you can get notifications and updates to a saved search via email or shared with you on LinkedIn. Use advanced search filters to narrow down opportunities by industry, location, experience level and more. Once your filtered search is set, create the alert.
The Open Candidates tool lets you privately signal to recruiters that you’re open to new opportunities by simply flipping a switch on your LinkedIn profile. Open Candidates is accessible from the “Jobs” tab.

See What You Could Earn
LinkedIn tapped into its network of more than 530 million members to give you deep insight into the average salary and the compensation landscape for countless roles. 
LinkedIn Salary includes base compensation, bonus, and equity data for specific job titles, and the different factors that impact pay such as years of experience, industry, company size, location, and education level.

Create Your Dream Job
LinkedIn ProFinder is used by more than 70,000 freelance professionals across the nation. According to LinkedIn, nearly 20% of freelancers confirmed they'll make six figures or more this year as an entrepreneur.

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