Finding your dream job through LinkedIn – Evan Gotlib, TravelZoo
Cliches aside, I've always spoken about how a professional networking site like LinkedIn can help you find your dream job. I found mine, and so did Evan Gotlib from Travel Zoo. Evan is currently the Advertising Sales Director at Travel Zoo and stumbled upon his dream job through LinkedIn. In the below video he talks about the ease with which he found his current job while using LinkedIn.
After the jump, we've outlined three of Evan's favorite features sprinkled with some quotes from his interview on what he found most useful about LinkedIn.
3 Tips from Evan
1. With great connections come great utility!
I started to see the incredible power of LinkedIn, right after 50 connections! That was the tipping point!
As many of our users have highlighted, the power of LinkedIn isn't unleashed unless and until your LinkedIn network reflects your day to day professional network as closely as possible. We provide an easy way to import your connections from any mail client (Outlook or any of the popular webmail providers) you use. Click on image below to take you to the "Import Connections" page.
2. News I care about, from the people I care about
I can go to New York Times and see the Top 10 Most emailed articles, but on LinkedIn I can find what my people are reading. That's something I should be reading.
The best part of LinkedIn News is that you get to read, recommend, share news articles that you find most interesting with your colleagues within your company. Likewise, you'll find the articles that are most popular within your company. And, the best part is that they are private conversations.
3. Letting your dream job find you through LinkedIn
This was the first job I pro actively went after, and it would have obviously not happened without LinkedIn
And, finally the dream job that Evan found, couldn't have been made possible but through LinkedIn Jobs. Check it out by clicking the image below.
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