Work Smarter with LinkedIn

You can create folders for specific industries, cities, or topic areas you cover and easily find everyone you’ve looked at without having to search all over again

each out and ask for enough LinkedIn introductions so that you can book a new meeting or phone call every week

use LinkedIn to search for someone in the organization—or better yet, the department—you are applying to, and ask a trusted colleague for a personal introduction. Once you’ve been introduced, you can ask your new inside contact for background or context on the position.
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That’s why it’s crucial to think of yourself as living in perpetual job-search mode, and keep your LinkedIn profile up-to-date so that it reflects where you want to go in your career.

, I recommend minimizing your use of LinkedIn’s internal messages and InMail

here is also widespread antipathy toward the practice of cross-posting from Twitter to LinkedIn

you can treat your LinkedIn update as a real-time résumé, updating it only when you have a new publication, presentation, or accomplishment to share. Just once a week is fine.

once you’ve created a LinkedIn network that is full of meaningless connections, your LinkedIn experience will be so full of noise that it will be hard for you to find real value in your network searches.

hanks for reaching out. I maintain a very limited network on LinkedIn, but if you’re on Twitter, I’d be delighted to connect there.”

This is the kind of triage process that makes me feel like a terribly opportunistic person, but that is the point of LinkedIn: to find opportunities