#opentowork LinkedIn is the world’s largest online business networking platform. If you’re not using LinkedIn to market yourself for new job opportunities, you should be. You’re missing a trick. Here are my top tips to help you get noticed on LinkedIn. Just before we get started though, you must understand one thing. LinkedIn people don’t appreciate a hard sell.  Connections are made because people feel a connection with you. A post you’ve written, a comment you’ve made something that has resonance with the person and compels them to want to connect with you. LinkedIn users won’t connect with you if you’re selling your product or indeed selling yourself.

I went out of my comfort zone last week and ‘put myself out there’ on LinkedIn. Not a rant, no it was definitely not a rant, but it was an impassioned piece on video that I just felt compelled to record and share. Why? Well simply this… I love the recruitment industry. I’ve worked in recruitment for the best part of my working life. I care passionately about my clients, my candidates and business in general. So, I get really cheesed off, when other less impassioned recruitment operators deliver, quite frankly a really poor service. Why should I care? Because it gives recruiters, as a wider business, a bad name.

How do you prepare for a video interview during and after the Covid 19 Pandemic In this months candidate newsletter I share my thoughts and tips  

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