How To Leverage LinkedIn for Career Success?

LinkedIn is an ocean of opportunities for job seekers!

Every jobseeker has used LinkedIn at least once in their career, be it for finding a job for the first time or changing jobs a second time in a year.

If you compare LinkedIn with its 5-year-old version, you’ll notice major differences in today’s version of LinkedIn.

Back then, LinkedIn was only used to find jobs.

Today, it’s more than that. It’s now used as a networking tool for founders, investors, and jobseekers. Many users are leveraging LinkedIn as a content creation platform and are building their audience on the platform.

However, LinkedIn hasn’t lost its originality, meaning it’s still the first choice for jobseekers to find a job. But things have changed. Jobseekers need to leverage LinkedIn for career development and success.

In this newsletter, we’ll explore career development tips, how to stand out in the crowd, and what’s going on in our organization, UpMan Placements, that helps jobseekers find the best company to work at.

1: Career Development Tips:

Optimizing your LinkedIn profile for maximum visibility and impact

People judge you by the way you look. Be it online or offline.

Therefore, create your LinkedIn profile, optimize it for the platform for maximum visibility and impact.

The following tips will help you optimize your LinkedIn profile.

1. Profile Picture: Use a medium shot photograph with a clear and visible face.
2. Cover Image: Use this space to highlight your wins.
3. About Section: Elaborate on your professional journey in About section. Ensure using more data and less fluff.
4. Customized Link: Create a customized LinkedIn profile link that looks professional.
5. Ask for Recommendations: Start asking for recommendations from people you know and have worked with. This helps build trust.
6. Add Experience: Add relevant experience from your past jobs. Explain briefly what you did in that job.?
7. Add Certificates: If available, add certificates. It helps you build trust and shows your credibility.

Building a professional network and engaging with connections effectively

Your network is your net worth. And it’s true.

LinkedIn can be a great asset for you to build a network of founders, HR professionals, and like-minded people.

Here are some ways you can build a great network of professionals on LinkedIn.

• Comment on other’s posts: Actively comment on other’s posts to build a relationship and genuinely comment your views.
• Message without any agenda: Leverage LinkedIn message feature to connect with your existing connections to build a relationship. Have a agenda-free chat and try to know your connections beyond online profiles.
• Leverage search feature: Use LinkedIn’s search filters to find your target audience and send them connection requests.
• Personalized connection request: While sending connection requests, use a personalized note to make them feel connected.

2: How to Stand Out in the Crowd

Showcasing your achievements and skills through multimedia content on LinkedIn

Nowadays, everyone is a creator.

However, a creator does not always use a camera to express themselves.

You can use a well articulated text post to express your thoughts.

And once you feel comfortable creating content, all you need is consistency.

LinkedIn is changing the way it works. It promotes content you create.

And content creation on LinkedIn helps you reach to the right audience.

In this case, the right HR or founder.

Here are some topics you can use to create content to grab the attention of your audience.

• Use how-to content format to show your knowledge
• Discuss about your journey till now
• Tips on being productive
• Personal experiences

Pro Tip: Use an image or video along with your text post for more visibility on LinkedIn.

3: UpMan Updates & Employee Spotlights

At UpMan Placements, every year we organize an annual meetup where we all come together under one roof to discuss the successes and failures of the past year and set new goals for ourselves to be the best in the industry.

We also appreciated and recognized the best talent working in our organization through various awards and playful games that refreshed everyone.

Apart from various awards, the top two awards were,

1: Employee of the Year: Subhash Labana

2: Consistent Performer of the Year: Darpana Patel

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- UpMan Placements