10 Use Social Media to Network
It’s a brave new world. If you are not using social media, you are not taking advantage of many of the job opportunities available to you.
10.1 How to Get into LinkedIn
You may not be on LinkedIn right now. You’ve noticed that I consider LinkedIn the cornerstone of a reasonable job search at this time. If you don’t want to use LinkedIn, okay. Your search will be much more difficult.
If you are not on LinkedIn, go to http://www.linkedin.com and join. You have to sign up with your name, email address, and password. If you are not on LinkedIn, do it now. Right now. I’ll wait. Go ahead. Now, wasn’t that easy?
10.2 Do I Have to Build My LinkedIn Network?
Some of you are reading this and the networking chapters thinking, ...
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