Below are some tactical tips on how you can leverage LinkedIn to its fullest to expand your professional network and land your next great job. The issue is that if you're only updating your profile now and then, you're not fully utilizing all LinkedIn can do for you, which includes taking hours off of your job search. President Barack Obama once joked during a TV press conference that he would join LinkedIn to help him land a job after his term was up! As a professional or student, it's the popular place to network and look for job opportunities even former U.S. Per the Jobvite Recruiter Nation Survey, 87 percent of recruiters use LinkedIn as part of their candidate search. alone and reaching 200 countries and territories around the world. It's no secret that LinkedIn is the top professional social networking site with 133 million users in the U.S. Why should you use LinkedIn for your job search? After all, I was receiving information on how to boost your LinkedIn profile during a job search straight from the CEO's mouth, so I had to share. Needless to say, it inspired me to sit down and write. I turned on the TV recently and saw a “CBS This Morning” interview with Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn. Are you using LinkedIn to its fullest to get a job?

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