How to make use of LinkedIn professionally and effectively?

Introduction:

In a recent days, LinkedIn became top website for growing up professional network and getting jobs. It is very much important for everyone to understand how to use LinkedIn effectively.

Description:

I will give you couple of important points to make the best se of LinkedIn. It will help to grow your network as well as get the things done.

1. Spend most of your time on LinkedIn. Bookmark LinkedIn Homepage on your Browser if you are using Desktop/Laptop. Download LinkedIn Application from the playstore and add it to your Homescreen if you are using Mobile Phone.

2. Always keep the LinkedIn App on your Home screen in your mobile. So that you will make sure you are going to use it many times in a day.

3. Never ignore connection requests. Accept all the connection requests whenever you come to LinkedIn.

4. Always send connection requests to Moderators, Helping Hands, Mentors, Authors, Key Peoples on the LinkedIn. Suppose, you are looking for a job in a particular company, then in the search bar, search “Hiring XYZ” then filter “People” and Current Company to “XYZ”. Now you will see lot of HR’s on that company. Send them a connection request. So that later, you can communicate with them.

5. Though there’s a limit for sending connection requests, make the best use of it on every day/week.

6. Like most of the posts, comment on them. It will boost your profile. People get notifications and they do follow and send you connection requests.

7. Reply for every single message requests. Never ignore them. If they ask help, guide them. If they ask some clarification, provide them.

8. Every time you login to LinkedIn, first, accept all connection requests. Second, click on notifications and respond each notification.

9. For example, each day someone might be having birthday, someone might be celebrating anniversaries, someone might be starting a new job. Like their post and comment on the same.

10. Join LinkedIn Groups. Search on the LinkedIn with Key Skills for example, JavaScript. Filter by Groups and join the Group which has more members.

11. Always be professional on LinkedIn. Never like/comment on unnecessary posts which is beyond LinkedIn Terms and Regulations.

12. Follow useful tags like #career, #connections #help, #linkedin, #javascript, #angular, etc, etc.

13. Click on “Connections” tab and Follow people and pages on a daily basis. Sometimes, there will be suggestions. Follow them.

14. Comment on useful posts. (If possible many). For example, if someone is hiring then comment on that post and tag your friend’s on that post who’s looking for a job. In few cases, someone write a post saying — Looking for a job. Having abc, xyz, etc. skills and ready to join immediately. In this scenario, comment on that post and tag if you know someone who’s hiring for this relevant position.

15. Keep posting articles/blogs/documents/tips, etc on at least weekly twice. Write/Post the same on your LinkedIn Groups. It will reach more people.

16. Complete your LinkedIn profile 100%. Add proper About section, Work Experience, Skills, Certifications, Education, Contact Details, etc, etc. Under the “Skills” section, there will be “Take skills quiz”. Attend the quiz and clear the same. At the end, you receive a badge, which can be displayed infront of the skills on your LinkedIn profile.

17. Add useful documents /posts on your LinkedIn “Featured” section.

18. Spend most of the time on LinkedIn. I use LinkedIn more than any other apps in my Phone.

19. Be kind. Be polite. Be professional on LinkedIn. Always help the needy. Someone might need job to feed their family. So help them :)

20. Whenever you find Job Vacancy in your company or if you find Job Vacancies on your LinkedIn Feed, kindly share them across the network. It might help someone. They will be thankful.

21. Write an article/blog/post(3–4 times in a week) and Create a poll (1/2 times in a week) on LinkedIn. You can even share a Photo/Certificate/Code Repositories/Video Links/Article Links/etc. It might be even coding snippets/quotes/job vacancies/tips/etc. This will slowly increase your visibility over the platform and you will be helpful for many of them over the network.

Conclusion:

LinkedIn is a professional platform. Most of them are unfamiliar how to use it. Few are not even using it even once in a week. Start using it from today and make the best use out of it. This is my own experience. I have been following the above mentioned steps. Hope it helps everyone. You can reach out to me or connect me over LinkedIn if you have any trouble for using LinkedIn effectively. Thank you.