LinkedIn - Open for new Opportunities - How to guide

LinkedIn can be used for finding a job, by doing an active job search or by letting other people now that you are open to new career opportunities. This is how you can do it with few simple steps.

Log in your LinkedIn account and guide you mouse pointer at you picture, which is located at upper right corner. Once your mouse pointer is there a small window will appear.

At the drop down window select Privacy & Settings
Then you'll be guided in the Privacy & Settings page of your account.
Click on the  Communications tab and then click on the 'Select the types of messages you're willing to receive'.
A small window will open and then you can select in which cases other people can contact you but also which state is visible to other people. Select 'Career opportunities' and more if you want. Adjust the message in the text box and then save your changes.

Job and Career Netwrok on LinkedIn

Job & Career Network groups on LinkedIn.

Join the European Job and Career Netwrok subgroup here.

Join the group and find a job in Europe using the posts and comments.

Setting LinkedIn for new job opportunities notifications!

As posted before, LinkedIn can become a very useful tool.
Besides maintaining and making new professional contacts, LinkedIn can also sent you an email with new job opportunities that fit to your profile.

All you have to do is to change the Opportunity Preferences (log in, scroll down to your profile page, click Edit on Contact Settings) as follows

At the end, the email you'll receive (once per week) will look like this

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What is LinkedIn? 

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site.

The site officially launched on May 5, 2003. At the end of the first month in operation, LinkedIn had a total of 4,500 members in the network. Today it counts more than 100 million professionals!

Roughly one million new members join LinkedIn every week, at a rate equivalent to a professional joining the site faster than one member per second.

One purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people with whom they have some level of relationship, called “Connections”. Users can invite anyone (whether a site user or not) to become a connection.

This list of connections can then be used in a number of ways:

• A contact network is built up consisting of their direct connections, the connections of each of their connections (termed second-degree connections) and also the connections of second-degree connections (termed third-degree connections). This can be used to gain an introduction to someone a person wishes to know through a mutual contact.
• It can then be used to find jobs, people and business opportunities recommended by someone in one's contact network.
• Employers can list jobs and search for potential candidates.
• Job seekers can review the profile of hiring managers and discover which of their existing contacts can introduce them.
• Users can post their own photos and view photos of others to aid in identification.
• Users can now follow different companies and can get notification about the new joining and offers available.
• Users can save (i.e. bookmark) jobs which they would like to apply for.

LinkedIn worldwide

• 100m+ professionals around the world as of March 2011
• 20m+ members in Europe as of December 2010
• 5m+ members in the UK as of December 2010
• 1m+ members in France
• 2m+ members in the Netherlands
• 1m+ members in Italy
• 1m+ members in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland)
• 1m+ members in Spain
• 9m+ members in India
• 3m+ members in Canada
• 3m+ members in Brazil
• 2m+ members in Australia
• As of April 2011, LinkedIn counts more than 11 million recent college graduates* around the world as members (*LinkedIn defines recent graduates as members who have graduated within the last five years--between 2005 and 2010.).