In a down economy, it is of the utmost importance to expand your network. The best way to find a job or get new business or through those that you know.


1) Include your e-mail address in your profile after your last name (this makes it easier to add you)

2) Add Toplinked.com and Lion to the body of your profile. (These are terms that open net workers use to search for those open to adding more connections)

3) Go to Toplinked.com and send invites to those with e-mail addresses in their profile

4) Ask and answer questions in the LinkedIn Answer forum

5) Join and post on the Linked In groups on Yahoo Groups.

6) Add a link to your LinkedIn profile to the signature of your e-mail.

7) Make sure your profile includes details about your experience. If you are in sales, include quota performance. If you are a software engineer include specifics of the tools you used (recruiters will often use that as a keyword search)

8) Make your profile public (this way it will be indexed in search engines) (Recruiters and Sourcers do specific Boolean searches for LinkedIn profiles)

9) Join and participate in the LinkedIn groups. You can send messages to those in your groups without using inMails

10) Write recommendations for those that you have worked with and request recommendations from those that worked with you.
(This will have you show up when people see their profile)
DO NOT ASK FOR RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THOSE THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW. On Occasion, I will get a request for a referral from someone I do not know well.


* Feel free to forward and add me ; )

Marcus Zack Ronaldi
My LinkedIn Profile
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/67/264