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The Most Important LinkedIn Page You’ve Never Seen…

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LinkedIn (LI) is my favorite social site. Why? Because they built a ‘professional’ social site that truly adds value.

Initially, LI gave users something valuable.. an electronic Rolodex. The site helped us understand to increase the value of our already valuable connections (and gave us tools to use them more effectively). In my recent post, ‘Because Every Job is Temporary…” I discussed the fact that we all need to be looking for work — all the time. Therefore, building a network, helping others and keeping our skills up to date are critical.

Then they made it problematic for people to ‘spam’– if you said you didn’t know someone… they got bounced from LinkedIn temporarily. When they said they valued our privacy, they meant it (unlike some others…)

Once they gave us this tool (for free), they then helped us to build connections across industries, interests, commonality — with groups etc.

So, what’s this page I’ve never seen? It’s called Talent Solutions and it is part of the LinkedIn Recruiter offering which is only visible to companies that pay to use the sourcing and hiring tools. Recruiters can see all your information, but you can’t see them. Think no one is watching you? Think again. If you are actively adding to your skills, building your connections, interacting with people and posting your blog/slideshare/other content regularly, then you are the kind of candidate many recruiters are looking for.  The real reason you should care about LinkedIn… explains more.

Like the Panda in the picture… you have to work for your food, even if the tree is right in front of you.

Photo Credit: Tai Shan, National Zoo Panda dbking


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