Brent M. Jones - Connected Events Matter

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Why post this LinkedIn information on this website?

Why does this site offer a LinkedIn page? Because LinkedIn is an opportunity for everyone. The LinkedIn site has 800 million+ members and allows professionals to manage their professional identity, build and engage a professional network, and access knowledge, insights, and opportunities. It also has some fantastic ways to find out the best way to use their site on their site.

The reason it is included on this site isn’t that this is the best and most complete information source, but it is because it just focuses on what you need to know to get started from the point of view of a person who just lost their job and is in a hurry to use the tools. This insight came from working one on one with over 800 job seekers.

Some of what you need to know will be “intuitive” based on what your resume and job history say about you and finding the best way to sum those experiences up in the About Statement and job titles you chose to put under your headline. Freelancer, Self-Employed, looking for a job and leaving those things behind? Those can require some intuitive focus. LinkedIn, of course, can identify the many parts of the process, but the posts on this site take those approaches adding where experience has shown people trying to be intuitive find roadblocks and need help