Are you rethinking your place on Facebook? Then come to LinkedIn. The professional network’s “Who’s Viewed Your Profile” feature can be the first pull of a thread towards new professional connections, skill boosts, and career breakthroughs. Think back. When did you last spend some time to really understand the members who visited your LinkedIn profile? […]
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The best thing to happen during a job search is to be headhunted. It would free you from the burden of sending out resume-packed emails and wrangling all kinds of interviews. For most of us, being headhunted won’t happen out of the blue. However, one little LinkedIn feature gives you the freedom to tell companies […]
Continue ReadingLinkedIn is primarily used for making connections with people you want to work with in some capacity. Which means everything has to remain quite formal at all times. Despite this, LinkedIn has decided to embrace GIFs, that very informal means of communication. LinkedIn Finally Embraces the GIF In a post on the Official LinkedIn Blog, […]
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With hundreds of millions of users, there’s no doubt that LinkedIn is still the world’s largest professional-oriented platform. That being said, in recent years, lots of users have drifted away from the network. They rarely log in and barely engage with the content and connections found over there. I was exactly the same, checking my […]
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A recent survey, reported in SC Magazine, found that 24% of surveyed LinkedIn users have connected with people they didn’t know on the professional social network, despite LinkedIn’s repeated warnings not to do so. Why is this an issue? Because LinkedIn can be a vector for spear-phishing and other types of attacks. Never thought of it […]
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In 2012, LinkedIn was hacked by an unknown Russian entity, and six million user credentials were leaked online. Four years later, it’s transpired that the hack was far worse than we first expected. In a report published by Vice’s Motherboard, a hacker called Peace has been selling 117 million LinkedIn credentials on the Dark web […]
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