Leveraging LinkedIn to Optimize Your Career in 2021

LinkedIn has a professional network of 756 million members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.
Maybe it is not big compared to Facebook and Instagram but definitely it is a big platform to connect with Professional networks.
Since when LinkedIn was launched it has never got this traction like today. It is filled with professional looking out to hire people or people who are looking out for a job.
It is also said there are 3 people hired in LinkedIn every single minute.
How much you miss such a wonderful professional network platform as part of your career building process? In this blog we would see how to leverage LinkedIn to optimize your career opportunity. Let’s jump in with some of the Key things we should learn about LinkedIn.
  • Knowing Your Audience
  • Optimizing Your Profile
  • Growing Your Network Strategically
  • Creating Quality Content
  • Buyer First Selling

When it comes to any marketing, knowing the audience becomes the thumb rule. If you do not understand what your audience need, there is no point in creating an extraordinary content. It will just die itself.
Every time you work on a content or you work on your marketing strategy, make sure you jot down who your audience are. It is would really be a simple but wise decision.

When it comes to optimizing your profile, there is a lot of things you have to handle and fix in your profile before you move to the next step. Let’s see some important things to handle on your LinkedIn profile as part of the optimization.
  • Cover Image
  • Profile Picture
  • Full Name
  • Title/ Heading
  • Location
  • About
  • All Star Profile
  • Activity
  • Interest
  • Experience
  • Education
  • Licenses & Certification
  • Skills & Endorsements
  • Recommendations
If you would like to know the step by step process of it, watch my LinkedIn Optimization video by clicking right below.
First thing first, LinkedIn is not like your Facebook and Instagram and there is nothing great in just achieving millions of connections in your profile. You really do not need a million connections but connections that will add value to you via LinkedIn.

So make sure, you are requesting or accepting connections whom you think would add value to you, if not, it is wise to reject the request.
If there is one thing LinkedIn is known for, its nothing but its native content. When you create a content, make sure you create it right inside LinkedIn and you are not trying to move the audience outside LinkedIn (Like your blog or your social media page or an affiliate link).
Text and Video are the most preferred medium of content where text content carries the priority one. When you work on a video content, make sure to add subtitles to it. As you know by default, video plays while scrolling but not audio. So Subtitles is a must.
Hashtags plays a major role as it is in any other platform. Hashtags plays a major role as it is in any other platform. Make sure to use not just high traffic keywords but also medium and content specific low traffic hashtags too.
Always make sure to answer the question ” What is my content teaching people?”. If you could answer this, its really great.

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