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New LinkedIn Tool Improves Networking

November 12, 2008
By: Randi Bussin-Career Coach, Personal Branding Specialist

New LinkedIn Tool Improves Networking

 

LinkedIn is offering a great new tool for you if you’re looking to network as a way to expand your career options or to change careers. LinkedIn already provides LinkedIn Groups and LinkedIn Answers to help you further your career, but LinkedIn Events will assist you in finding events and conferences pertinent to your career or to a new career that interests you.

 

This service is provided to LinkedIn users, but it’s easy to become a member. Just go to www.linkedin.com and sign up. LinkedIn will use the information you have provided in your profile and the professional network that you build up to recommend events that you can use to expand your professional association or to explore a new career.

On your professional page, LinkedIn will set up a list of conferences and professional events geared toward your career or business interests. These are plucked from LinkedIn’s database of more than 8,000 events, and specifically sent to you based on your job history, title, and career background and aspirations. This information will list the event name, date, location, and how many other LinkedIn users will be attending.

You also may check out a longer description of the event that includes information about the schedule, goals, and speakers, and participants for that event. This information panel also will tell you the cost, if any, the event’s Web site to link to for further information, who else might be interested in attending, and contact information about the organizer.

LinkedIn also allows its subscribers to search through its entire database. You may search through events based on your location, by date, by industry, and by topic. You even may search through the names of speakers or organizations holding such events.

Once you’ve decided to attend an event or conference, you can alert your LinkedIn network as to your status for the event. And, you can keep updating your digital resume on your LinkedIn profile with each event or conference that you attend.

Because LinkedIn is all about setting up your own personal and professional network, this tool will allow you to see what other professionals in your network are doing, where they’re going, and what interests they’re pursuing. This will set up opportunities for you to network and make new connections, whether your goal is to advance in your career or to explore the possibilities of a new career.

And, if your goal is to change your career, you will be able to create an entire new network in a potential new field, attend events and conferences that will help you decide if this career is for you, and network with new connections that might help open the door for you for a new career.

 

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