{"id":905,"date":"2012-04-03T05:23:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T09:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2012-03-19T06:30:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T10:30:26","slug":"are-you-following-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/are-you-following-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you following companies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/are-you-following-companies\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>How to use LinkedIn for your job search \u2026 yes\u00a0follow companies \u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn Continued \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Creating clarity, focus, and thinking about your intention is critical in a job search and in life for that matter.\u00a0 LinkedIn now makes it easy to engage and attract favorable attention during your job search with employers and businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The data and information shared by LinkedIn with the company about who is engaged very valuable.\u00a0 It is one easy way to be visible, to connect\u00a0and to engage.\u00a0 I have always recommended creating a short list of targeted companies very early in your search.<\/p>\n<p>Having a short list\u00a0helps you with research, as well as helping you find tune your short list of targeted companies and your search focus.\u00a0 Using LinkedIn you can easily follow your top 10 target companies, and engage as you wish with each company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn receives over 50% of its revenue from its hiring solutions and 30% from its marketing solutions.\u00a0 They invest in ways to share information and create a positive engagement experience.\u00a0 You can leverage this investment.<\/p>\n<p>Who are you following?\u00a0 What companies are on your short list?\u00a0\u00a0 What can you learn from following a company?<\/p>\n<p>Are you active, engaged and seeking out new opportunities or sitting on the sidelines waiting for the phone to ring?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How are you using LinkedIn?\u00a0 Have a comment, tip or thought?\u00a0 Post it below.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a question about your search?\u00a0 Look to the right and sign up for next Q &amp; A session, join the next session and ask your question.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to use LinkedIn for your job search \u2026 yes\u00a0follow companies \u2026\u00a0 LinkedIn Continued \u2026 Creating clarity, focus, and thinking about your intention is critical in a job search and in life for that matter.\u00a0 LinkedIn now makes it easy to engage and attract favorable attention during your job search with employers and businesses.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,7,15],"tags":[9,5,138],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-tips","category-career-management","category-job-search-focus","category-linkedin","tag-accelerate-your-search","tag-focus","tag-linkedin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}