LinkedIn...to the future

Learning about LinkedIn, is probably one of the most useful business-type media tools to know about. It is a website designed to all individuals to build professional networks. The networks that can be built can be for business ventures, business opportunities, potential employers, potential employee, education and many more options. The website provides articles in a news feed that are personalized to you, based upon the information that is provided in your LinkedIn profile. Because I am a student studying nutrition and food, and will soon be looking for a job, the articles they provide in my feed are job interview tips and what to look for in employers, as well as health, wellness and fitness articles. They also reference industries that I may be interested in knowing more about based off my LinkedIn profile.

Learning in ALES 204 about LinkedIn I now have a new resource to help me find a job when I graduate. I can use the website in the mean time to build a professional network within the industry of my choice and hopefully will have many options and guidance about what I am looking for in a specific career.

Before LinkedIn I just relied on my resume and on website such as www.kijiji.com, www.edmontonjobshop.ca, etc, but because of ALES 204 I am realizing there are SO many more options...options that to me are so helpful and wonderful! There are also other resources to use to create professional profiles and networks. Stace K in my ALES 204 class wrote a good blog about the use of Facebook and had a great link in it about how employers use Facebook. Her website is http://stace-k.blogspot.ca/

Since I am currently working on my LinkedIn profile, I do not have very much information on it yet. I am looking forward to adding and building to it, and hope I can build a great network of people around me that are just as passionate about their interests as I am about mine.Who knows maybe I'll find my future employer on there?

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