LinkedIn is the new and upcoming platform for professionals to network on the web. The platform will allow you to Connect with classmates, faculty, and family professionally and even find new opportunities for internships and full time positions for a job that may interest you. LinkedIn will also let you manage what potential employers learn about you from the Internet and even help you find key contacts at companies that interest you. LinkedIn is a new media tool, to not only make your career better, but to let people know the phenomenal type of person and worker you really are.
Now after watching this short video, you are probably thinking that maybe I could benefit from LinkedIn right? Especially media professionals, this is a platform that can possibly boost start your career right? Well if you are thinking I'm not to sure how I can benefit from this new and exciting platform, you are completely wrong. The answer is you can benefit from LinkedIn as long as you would like to during your career. LinkedIn will allow you as a Journalists to build your professional brand, or even market yourself in your field. It will also help you find and pursue your career passion by browsing different professionals profiles and even allowing you to connect with these other professionals in your specific field. LinkedIn is trying to make and help Build and maintain professional relationships, as well as turning professional relationships into opportunities that you will greatly benefit from as you start your first job all the way through the rest of your career.
On the other hand, One thing that will draw people and future professionals in to this platform is something every single person love to hear. The word free. LinkedIn is free and cost no fee per month. People sometimes judge a website or media platform right away, all depending on if it cost anything, which isn't right. However, Social networking service on LinkedIn are free, but if you choose to upgrade to a paid account, you have access to additional features, which some may choose to do, but at first they are more than contempt with the free version.
According to Krista Canfield, senior manager in corporate communications at LinkedIn. She finds that using LinkedIn is very beneficial in a work environment. "I'm a Newhouse alum so I find Syracuse Oranges in the media business. For me to be able to bring that up at the top of the conversation kicks it off in a completely different way than if we go straight to business." (NAA)
LinkedIn is something that can change ones life. Just ask a vice president at an education software start-up named John Hazlett. Hazlett wasn't happy with his job at all till he discovered LinkedIn and found out the endless possibilities it could do for him with work. “I look at it as a small way that I was able to land a dream job and really grow with a great firm,” Hazlett said. (Washington post)
LinkedIn is a media platform that has just began and hasn't even shown what it's potential can be yet and how useful it can be to professionals. Young adults and professionals in their respective fields have already proved to people that LinkedIn is the real deal, and that you can benefit from this platform and become more successful than you ever thought you could be. I’m going to be even more fascinated to see where it goes from here and I get the feeling it’s going to get ever more useful as it evolves and as we all figure out collectively what it can be to us