How to Use LinkedIn to Find a Job

How to take advantage of some of LinkedIn's new features, including LinkedIn Contacts, visual portfolio, and the enhanced "Who's Viewed Your Profile" section.

Whether you’re actively seeking a job, or just keeping tabs on where your industry is heading, LinkedIn Jobs leverages your professional relationships to help you achieve your career goals.

Now that LinkedIn is nine years old and has more than 150 million members, most professionals have figured out how to set up a basic profile and build connections with friends and colleagues. But for unemployed job seekers, it’s one of the best tools on the Internet.

LinkedIn is an invaluable social network for both job hunters and seasoned professionals, but it's also used by recruiters to find the candidate with the perfect mix of skills. The right LinkedIn profile can boost your visibility, improve your overall Web presence and strengthen your professional brand. Consider it your online resume, being that it contains all of the information from your resume plus a healthy splash of personality, if you've done it right.

A Guide for anyone looking to use LinkedIn to find jobs.

Tech guru Dave Taylor shares LinkedIn co-founder Konstantin Guericke's 12 best tips for finding a job via LinkedIn.

Dave Taylor spells out step-by-step how to get started using LinkedIn in your job search.

How to use LinkedIn as part of your job search, including how to increase your visibility and connections, so employers and recruiters can find you.

Liz Ryan wrote the following terrific letter in response to a query on a private mailing list from a woman asking about how to use LinkedIn to help find a job in the graphic design field.

With employee referrals becoming a larger source of new hires, job seekers need to develop contacts inside their target companies.

One of LinkedIn’s many cool features is the ability to identify inside connections into potential employers. But once you’ve found them, what to do you do with them?

Showcase your talent and qualifications for the next lurking headhunter.

Planning to reach out to recruiters during your job search, but don’t know how to approach them? Check out these great LinkedIn tips!

Searching for a job can suck if you constrain yourself to the typical tools such as online jobs boards, trade publications, CraigsList, and networking with only your close friends. In these kinds of times, you need to use all the...

We're in a very tough economy these days, and job seekers need every bit of help they can find. These tips might increase your chances of finding a job via LinkedIn.

Ready to start your job search or switch careers? Here are several effective ways to find a job on LinkedIn.

Most of the recruiters and employers have quit traditional methods of searching for a perfect candidate. No longer do they spend all their time going through job portals but they also search for interesting candidates on social media sites, blogs, forums and professional networking sites.

Strategies for using the top networking site. Second in a two-part series.

LinkedIn is good for much more than just updating you about your friends’ career changes.

This guide will show you how to use LinkedIn to make connections, research career paths and companies, and ultimately find the job of your dreams.

Ten groups for job seekers that are some of the best among thousands of them.

If you are looking for jobs and have yet to utilize LinkedIn as a job search tool, you are missing out. A visual guide to using LinkedIn For job hunters.

You've signed up on LinkedIn, you're ready to use it to get a job, but where do you begin? Follow these steps to make LinkedIn a valuable tool in your job search plan.

12 tips from Fabrice Calando.

LinkedIn more than just another social network. It's a powerful job search tool. They have a pretty good section on how to find a job with LinkedIn.