I know a number of people are going to disagree with me on this but read on and then tell me what you think.
LinkedIn is a professional networking site.
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and the rest are social networking sites.
Sure LinkedIn has some of the features of other sites like:
Here is why I say it is different:
Hopefully you do not.
Take this a step further with mistakes I see Recruiters make in treating social networking sites like LinkedIn:
Job seekers are not immune to the mistakes in what they are doing on LinkedIn:
There are no “rules” to this but some folks are not using common sense when they go from one to the other.
For my Recruiter friends and I mean this with a lot of respect, we need to use the sites the way they are and not they way we wish they were. By that I mean these are social sites. So participate, engage, contribute and communicate with people in a social setting.
OK, I feel better now and feel free to tell me why I am wrong 🙂Article by Paul DeBettignies and courtesy of MN Headhunter — where they “play with their cards face up.”
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I know a number of people are going to disagree with me on this but read on and then tell me what you think.
LinkedIn is a professional networking site.
Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and the rest are social networking sites.
Sure LinkedIn has some of the features of other sites like:
Here is why I say it is different:
Hopefully you do not.
Take this a step further with mistakes I see Recruiters make in treating social networking sites like LinkedIn:
Job seekers are not immune to the mistakes in what they are doing on LinkedIn:
There are no “rules” to this but some folks are not using common sense when they go from one to the other.
For my Recruiter friends and I mean this with a lot of respect, we need to use the sites the way they are and not they way we wish they were. By that I mean these are social sites. So participate, engage, contribute and communicate with people in a social setting.
OK, I feel better now and feel free to tell me why I am wrong 🙂Article by Paul DeBettignies and courtesy of MN Headhunter — where they “play with their cards face up.”
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged
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