Comments on: Fish Where The Fish Are – Use LinkedIn To Job Search

By: Hollis Grajeda

Hollis Grajeda — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:34:35 +0000

I’ll be sharing this info with my friends. Thanks!

By: Sarah A

Sarah A — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:57:50 +0000

I have a LinkedIn profile but I stopped using it when I ran across http://www.personavita.com. It give me more power and allows my career experiences to be validated by my boss and co-workers. I don’t really trust that all the recommendations that I read at LinkedIn – are they true or just a friend helping out a friend. I find that validated career experiences (in which the validation is anonymous, so therefore honest) much more compelling.

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By: Gretchen Glasscock

Gretchen Glasscock — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:17:43 +0000

Louise, you make a very good point and I can see you’ve thought this through with a lot of insight and depth. Thanks for your comments. Would you consider writing a guest blog to expand on this a bit. I’m sure it would offer some valuable insights to our readers.

Gretchen
AW Career – Biz Blog

By: Louise Fletcher

Louise Fletcher — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:52:51 +0000

I’m with you on the need for a great profile but have to disagree with the idea of hiring a college student to write it.

Being a good writer is only one part of what’s needed. Unless you’ve hired people, you have no idea what will resonate, or how LinkedIn works from a recruiter’s perspective. (For example, what they see when they run a search and what tempts them to click through to a profile).

No one should pay anyone money for a LinkedIn profile unless the person they are hiring has a deep understanding of LinkedIn, including how recruiters use it, and also has experience hiring for positions like the one they are trying for. With all due respect to college kids, eve the brightest among them has yet to gain the experience necessary to help someone else get a job.

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By: stacey

stacey — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:07:20 +0000

Linkedin was added to the About.com Top 10 job site list but linkedin is still the only social network on the list. The 3 added to the list were -

http://www.linkedin.com (professional networking)
http://www.indeed.com (aggregated listings)
http://www.realmatch.com (matches you to the perfect job)

Complete top 10 job site list here:
http://jobsearch.about.com/od/joblistings/tp/jobbanks.htm