Are you using Linked In Wrong?

ByWalter Wimberly

LinkedIn is a great tool for professional networking. I know of several instances where people have been contacted with potential jobs because of the strength of their LinkedIn profile.

However, a lot of people are using in wrong. Instead of using it to give and take, they only want to take. Or they try to take only at the end – when they need it, instead of cultivating the process along the way, so it is ready when they need it.

Inc magazine did a good write-up on LinkedIn recently, and came up with several ways to make sure that you are using it correctly.

Take a look at their article, and work on fixing your profile if you have one. Or creating one if you don’t.

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Are you using Linked In Wrong? was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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