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BOB MCINTOSH   |   January 8, 2018     13,064  |  Get daily articles via email Having a strong  LinkedIn profile  is essential to being found by other LinkedIn members and employers, but your job on the site isn’t complete unless you’re communicating with your connections and the LinkedIn community as a whole. I tell my LinkedIn workshop attendees that I spend approximately an hour a day (it’s probably more) on LinkedIn. Their faces register surprise, and I’m sure some of them wonder if I have a life. But networking is about communication. If you’re going to use LinkedIn to its full potential as a networking tool, you need to communicate with your connections. Here are 10 ways to do just that: 1. Direct Messages The most obvious way to communicate with your connections is to message them directly. Awhile back, LinkedIn changed the way we message our connections. Now, our messages are ...

U’VE GOT YOURSELF A LINKEDIN PROFILE. YOU MAY THINK IT LOOKS GREAT, BUT HOW DO YOU KNOW IF IT’S ATTRACTING THE RIGHT ATTENTION? Here are some super simple tips on how to raise your profile on LinkedIn. Spend a few minutes each day on the professional platform and take your authority from the depths of despair to dizzy new heights (and maybe even a new career!). CHECK YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS Just like other social media platforms, LinkedIn has varying levels of privacy for your profile. You can set it to be searchable by anyone, or only be visible to your connections. If you want to raise your  profile on LinkedIn , the first thing you need to do is check your privacy settings, because if no-one is allowed to see your profile or your posts, you’re not going to get very far at all! ENGAGE If you want people to know about you, you need to get in front of them. The best way to do this is to engage with them. LinkedIn’s news feed is starting to show more and more convers...

The minute we leave full time or even part time education, there is a wave of pressure on us to figure out what we want to do next. There is, even more, pressure for those who have decided to change career paths. While they’re full of passion and enthusiasm, a lot of people just don’t know what to do or where to start in this new professional journey.  This article will give you some tips on how to market yourself and boost your professional profile. 1. Have the right mindset Based on experience and conversations with professional networkers, I realized that for young professionals, the concept of networking can be incredibly daunting. But, networking is a major part of any field of work. For employers, colleagues, and peers to respect and get to know you, a fair amount of communication is needed. We are often taught extensively how to apply for jobs, how to write up an impeccable CV, but we are not often taught how to conduct ourselves and how to manage our m...