CHAPTER 4Use LinkedIn to Job Hunt

With your profile at 100 percent and your network expanding with each passing week, you will be ready to start exploring LinkedIn for new job and business opportunities any time you want to. Of course, when you have a keyword-rich profile, a strong network, and an active presence on LinkedIn, people with the power to hire may just be looking for you at the same time.

Yet “LinkedIn is a tool, not a magic machine that gets people jobs,” says Steven Burda. Steven is absolutely right. As with so many other things in life, you won’t find a magic solution on the site any more than you can trade a cow for magic beans. But you will find magic in the strong and vibrant network you’ve built, and recruiters, hiring managers, ...

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