What is LinkedIn ?

Vishwaniketan Institutes
The Curious Side
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4 min readMar 21, 2021

After pursing or while pursing degree what should I do to get placed in product based companies ?

How should I follow my mentor? How will I get what is going in any company?

What if this blog gives you solutions for all these questions?

So,let’s find the answer through this blog.

There are many apps and website who claims to offer jobs, internships and news related to technical world.

Lets us have a look on one of the best app and website for jobs ,internships and technical news.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Launched on May 5, 2003, the platform is mainly used for professional networking, and allows job seekers to post their CVs and employers to post jobs.

LinkedIn was found in year 2002 in United States.

What is LinkedIn?

Like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and a dozen others, LinkedIn is a social network. And like other social network, it’s owned by a big tech company: Microsoft.

But unlike other social networking site and apps,

LinkedIn is a professional networking site, designed to help people make business connections, share their experiences and resumes, and find jobs.

What makes LinkedIn unique ?

Despite the professional focus, LinkedIn is quite similar to social networking sites like Facebook.

It’s based on principles like connecting to friends (or, in the case of LinkedIn, “connections,”), posting updates, sharing and liking content, and instant messaging other users.

LinkedIn also puts a professional spin on ideas you know from Facebook. Your profile, for example, becomes a resume, complete with work experience, accomplishments, recommendations, and referrals from colleagues.

You will get to know many things on LinkedIn ,which many sites doesn’t show like a full-featured career board, where you can search for and apply for jobs.

Many employment services are now compatible with LinkedIn — when applying for a position, you may be able to share your LinkedIn profiles, which sometimes means you won’t need to painstakingly enter your work experience into a long online form

Lets us have a quick tour to LinkedIn.

Home is akin to Facebook’s news feed. Here you can see posts made by other LinkedIn users, and make your own posts that others can see, like, share, and comment on. Like Facebook, you can limit your posts to just connections in your network, or share your thoughts with everyone.

Jobs is a comprehensive career site. You can search for and apply for jobs, get information about companies you’re interested in, and much more. You can set up notifications and get emails when there are new job postings.

My Network is where you can see your existing network of connections, and search for LinkedIn users to invite to join your network. You can also see existing invitations you’ve received from others

Lets us have a quick tour to LinkedIn.

•Home

Is akin to Facebook’s news feed. Here you can see posts made by other LinkedIn users, and make your own posts that others can see, like, share, and comment on. Like Facebook, you can limit your posts to just connections in your network, or share your thoughts with everyone.

•Jobs

Is a comprehensive career site. You can search for and apply for jobs, get information about companies you’re interested in, and much more. You can set up notifications and get emails when there are new job postings.

My Network is where you can see your existing network of connections, and search for LinkedIn users to invite to join your network. You can also see existing invitations you’ve received from others

•My Network

Is where you can see your existing network of connections, and search for LinkedIn users to invite to join your network. You can also see existing invitations you’ve received from others

•Messaging

Leads to an instant messaging platform you can use to chat with people in your network. You can also use it to send messages to people outside your network with something called InMail, if you subscribe to certain tiers of LinkedIn Premium.

•Me

Is where you can find your profile, which is akin to your resume. Here, you can show your career history by posting your work experience, accomplishments, education, current location, and more

What things one can do with LinkedIn?

LinkedIn is tool you can use to enhance your professional networking and job searching activities.

There are settings on LinkedIn that let you alert recruiters that you’re actively job searching as well as many people use this website to grow thier bussiness and find carrer opportunities.

Some people use LinkedIn to enhance their professional reputation by making posts in the news feed, and commenting on other people’s posts.

LinkedIn Premium is a subscription version of LinkedIn that adds a number of additional features, such as online professional development classes, insights into who’s viewing your profile, and the ability to instant message anyone on LinkedIn, even if they’re not in your network.

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