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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > Job-hunting on Linkedin: Recruiters, Groups and Networking, oh my!
 
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Nether Postlude
Aug 17, 2009

His mind will keep
reverting to the last
biscuit on the plate.
Membership pending for the goon group. :V

Very glad the OP made this thread - a lot of good advice too. I moved to NYC earlier this year and finally completed my LinkedIn profile. Joined a bunch of work-related groups. I got a job a week and a half later. My resume's no great shakes, either.

The caveat to all this is that you've got to live in a place that has jobs. People can't complain and say that LinkedIn doesn't help if they live in an area with no opportunity to begin with.

Nether Postlude fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Feb 6, 2013

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Nether Postlude
Aug 17, 2009

His mind will keep
reverting to the last
biscuit on the plate.

zmcnulty posted:

Personally I am pretty loose with connections, since adding someone on LinkedIn and actually providing a reference are two different things. A lot of times it can just be interesting to read resumes of people in a field you are interested in or with skills you want to obtain, to see how they use them. Or if they work or have worked for a company you are interested in, maybe he/she can just provide some idea of the culture and such. Hell there are plenty of other reasons to connect with someone besides recommendations. So if anyone wants to connect with me please feel free.

I am too. If anyone wants to connect with me, do a search of the group for the "user experience designer" in NYC and that's me. :j:

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