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profile. This way, other professionals and
employers can easily learn about you and what
you have to offer.
Optimize your keywords
You can increase your visibility by adding
keywords that are related to your profession and to
what you do best as a professional. If employers,
and people who are looking for a resource person
related to your field, search by those keywords,
you get a better chance of being the first person on
the list.
Connect and grow your network
From your email address book, you can easily add
friends to your LinkedIn network. You can also
search friends who were employed by the same
company you are connected with right now. There
are a myriad strategies you will come across in
some of the other rules. To maximize the effective-
ness of your network, aim for at least 50 people in
your first-degree connection.
Use LinkedIn Answers to the max.
Just like Yahoo Answers!, LinkedIn has LinkedIn
Answers that allows people to post questions to
the network. If you have any concern in your
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