If you are new to the job-hunting life, or coming back into it, LinkedIn should be a big part of your job search. It has the ability to network within your preferred job and find jobs to apply for. Recruiters are using it, so you should too. The book includes asides that give you bonus tips and explanations to help you in your job search. Chapter four has the steps to take to make sure you’re getting seen by recruiters. Networking (ugh) has to be done. It’s nice that you can do it all on LinkedIn. This chapter talks about getting referrals as part of your networking. It’s great that the chapters have check lists at the end, helping job hunters keep track of what they’ve done on LinkedIn. I always considered LinkedIn to be for business job hunting only, but I’ve been corrected and I think this book is great for new job hunters and people reentering the fray of job hunting.

This book really surprised me. It has far more helpful information than I anticipated. As they say, you don't know what you don't know. It's great to learn how to make LinkedIn work for you. If you are new to LinkedIn or a casual user, the book will help you make the most of your LinkedIn account. I got 700+ more connections after using this book.

This is a timely book on the job seekers favourite platform . The author's did a good job tackling how we need to search ,position ourselves for the job market and how to use LinkedIn. I recommend this book to job seekers everywhere.

I received a complimentary copy from the publisher and all opinions expressed are entirely my own

LINKED by Omar Garriott and Jeremy Schifeling is a straightforward text offering a five-step framework to finding a job: Explore. Position. Search. Network. Research. There is a section on each with multiple screen shots and examples, plus a summary checklist. The authors subtitled this text "Conquer LinkedIn. Get the Job. Own Your Future." They clearly encourage use of LinkedIn, illustrating how applicants on the platform are roughly twice as likely to get a callback in one of several useful charts and graphs. The text is laid out well, offers detailed, practical suggestions (e.g., cropping your photo), and makes frequent use of bold type to stress key points. While Garriott and Schifeling address an audience of new graduates through middle managers, LINKED will likely be most helpful to those new to the job market and could be a valuable resource for our Business teachers who often have a practice resume assignment.

Thorough and motivating book for the job seeker! Lots of sidebars to address specific issues, like how to pursue multiple career paths or international job hunting.

LinkedIn has quickly become an essential tool in searching for a new position or as a recent graduate. The rules for LinkedIn are different from other social media sites, and this book helps the career seeker on navigating LinkedIn from an insider's point of view..

As a not-so-active user on LinkedIn for a few years, I have to say this book is more for beginners or casual users, especially if you want to land a new opportunity through the connections there. It truly provides some tips and information that would be helpful to existing and potential users, but I'd say it's like a manual or a tool book in this case.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advance review copy, and I provide the comment voluntarily.

The great thing about Linked is that the information is updated and relevant to the everchanging scope of social media. However, the text has a single audience: jobseekers. I would have appreciated more information on how LinkedIn can be used by experienced professionals.

Thank you, #NetGalley, for the ARC of Linked.

This timely read comes to me as my husband is looking for a new job and because relocation is on the table, I may be as well.

Linked is appropriate for all ages looking for jobs. However, as middle agers in the market, my husband and I needed to read this. LinkedIn has become just as important as the resume, if not more so. Who are you? What do you stand for? Will you fit in with the company? This is what hiring employers want to know.

Starting with baby steps of setting up a profile to advanced methods of networking with recruiters, Linked should be in every adult library. The perfect gift for a graduate starting out, a friend changing careers, or the 50-something whose company is closing down, this book will be appreciated by multitudes.

Thanks, Omar and Jeremy. (After the casual tone of the prose, I feel we're on a first name basis.) You knew just what we needed.

I've been on LinkedIn for a awhile but this book had some very helpful hints for our business and for my personal profile. A good reference tool that I will continue to look back at going forward. Thank You

So, my publisher's marketing team has been nagging me to do better on LinkedIn, especially for the security field, so this new galley copy was useful--it explains how the algorithm is set up, what optimizes searches by recruiters and peers, and for those who are using it to find corporate jobs, how the weak tie network functions to get you higher on the results lists when managers and headhunters look for keywords and job titles. This isn't a great fit for the academic world's hiring processes, but would be a useful gift for any new grad going out into the world and leveraging recommendations and alumni assistance or someone thinking of going into industry about how much the traditional rules of job searches have changed even over the last decade.