LinkedIn Entry Hit a Raw Nerve
ningcontentI guess yesterday’s blog entry in which I asked why more college students and recent graduates don’t use business networking site LinkedIn really hit a nerve. As of 9pm CT tonight, I’ve received six comments to the blog entry when most blog entries don’t receive any comments and about twice as many via email.
The consensus seems to be that most don’t use it because they don’t know about it. Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are known and used by almost all college students and recent graduates so that’s where the buzz has been but few college career service office professionals use LinkedIn so aren’t able to teach their students how to use it. Kennedy Information’s free LinkedIn webinar on March 4th should fill in a few of those gaps. But the bottom line is that so far few college students use it so there’s little viral spread on campus like there is amongst recruiters, sales people, and other professionals. Hopefully that will change.
But college students and recent graduates who are looking for a connection into an industry, organization, or department will find few tools as powerful as LinkedIn. I have a couple of thousand connections so am only a few degrees removed from virtually everyone who is part of LinkedIn. Want to become part of my network? My pleasure. Join here.
