| October 7, 2009 | Posted By: Trevor Wilson | Category: LinkedIn |
Wow. I’m impressed. It’s not every day that someone lands a job through LinkedIn AND provides a step-by-step review of how they did it!
The article I’m referring to is called How I Found My Dream Job Using LinkedIn by Avril David and was posted on Forbes.com. It outlines his job search from start to finish and shows how LinkedIn can help.
I think my favorite part was how he got around to improving his LinkedIn profile:
After researching a list of relevant companies, I decided to send an unsolicited e-mail or two to the human resources department at my first-choice company, in hope that they were maybe, possibly, fingers-crossed, hiring for a position that wasn’t posted on their Web site. That yielded zero result, so I somewhat indifferently checked my LinkedIn network, on the off chance that the unfinished profile I had created four years ago could be of any use to me. Turns out it could.
And boy, was it helpful…
I conducted a LinkedIn search for the company and discovered that one of my former co-workers, a direct connection, was connected to someone there through previous work experience…As you can guess, since I wrote this article, the former co-worker graciously introduced me and even praised me (hallelujah!) to the person at my first-choice company. Two days later, I received a phone call inviting me to schedule an interview. A week and a half later, I was hired.
This just goes to show how powerful networking can be. Done right, it can open all sorts of doors.
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Great success story. It also shows that being proactive is what yields results. Having a LinkedIn profile is not enough; using it to your advantage and leveraging your connections is what makes the difference. Kudos, Avril.