How to Find a Job on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Google+, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 7LinkedIn Makes the Grade for Students and New Grads

Starting out in your career in the worst economic climate since your great grandparents were working is a daunting prospect. As we write this, unemployment is at an all-time high for recent graduates. Every new headline makes Mom and Dad’s sofa look like an inviting alternate lifestyle. We know that finding a job is going to be hard, but we’ve also learned that when times get tough, it’s a good idea to take stock of your advantages. Graduates at the dawn of the twenty-first century’s second decade have a huge advantage. You’ve grown up using social networking. You have an ingrained sense of power and comfort with these tools that older workers had to develop. Yes, your lack of work ...