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7 Smart Habits of Successful Job Seekers [INFOGRAPHIC]

At LinkedIn, we’re often asked what successful job seekers are doing on LinkedIn.

It turns out that job seekers are already ahead of the curve just by using LinkedIn. With over 300,000 jobs spanning nearly every profession, 90% of the Fortune 100 and thousands of other businesses using LinkedIn to hire, LinkedIn is the perfect place to jumpstart a job hunt.

However, most successful job seekers on LinkedIn aren’t just searching, viewing, and applying for jobs on LinkedIn, they’re doing something more.

To find out what else successful job seekers are doing on LinkedIn, we analyzed a group of over 4000 super job seekers (LinkedIn members who viewed a job at a particular company and then joined that company within three months) and studied what they were doing on LinkedIn during those three months of job hunting. Here’s what we discovered:

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