Oct

3

LinkedIn for recent college grads

Filed Under Career, Web 

I am a recent college graduate myself and I do not currently have a profile on LinkedIn. I had tried it out for a short while during my senior year of classes and determined that it was really of no use to me since I did not have enough business contacts to connect with. The handful I did have were people I worked with at the company I interned for, maybe a professor or two, and a couple friends that were also on the site. Don’t get me wrong, I am very keen on making and keeping business contacts, but up until now, I have just been entering their info into my phone.

Maybe a few years down the road as I develop into my career and meet more people at new companies, I might give it another shot. I am sure the social network has helped many college grads find positions at great companies, but I would be interested to know how they made the first connection. I could imagine that they probably knew the contact out of the social network before the connection was made on LinkedIn. I could be wrong though, maybe I just didn’t spend enough time on there to really see all the benefits.

I guess the best benefit is just having more exposure because more employers are now using LinkedIn as another online recruiting tool to find potential candidates.

Update:  I signed up again for the site and started connecting with new co-workers and friends since I am meeting new people at new companies. I still very rarely check the site but the amount of time it takes to keep my profile updated is minimal so I figure why not.

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