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My Perceptions of LinkedIn

I've only heard the name of LinkedIn. From signing up, I feel like this site is used as a type of Facebook but for students, business and employment related things. If I wanted to find a job LinkedIn might be a good place to start. Showing others what I know and can do could be a great help for job seeking, as well as great for making connections.
The positive reasons to use LinkedIn
  1. If you're looking for employment you could use LinkedIn to make a profile.
  2. Showcase your accomplishments and achievements.
  3. You can use LinkedIn to store your contact info for others to utilize
  4. Showcase and advertise a product/service for free
  5. Send and recieve messages from others on LinkedIn
  6. Keep up with news that's about companies, bussiness etc.
The issues faced when using LinkedIn
  1. While scrolling through the news feed I was given "Jobs you may be interested in" although I've set my city to Adelaide, I was given job recommendations in places like Melbourne and Sydney, and not in Adelaide. Although the Jobs tab shows job recommendations for other cities as well as my own, it's still helpful but can be improved.
  2. Unfollowing someone is difficult to find on a post, there's only a small "v" next to the post to unfollow them.
Tools, features and applications that can be used within LinkedIn
  1. Share an update. Giving an update is a basic feature of LinkedIn, letting people know what is on your mind.
  2. Who's viewed your profile. You can see who has viewed your profile under the "My Network" dropdown menu, letting you know who is interested in your profile.
  3. Jobs. If you want to search for a job you can use LinkedIn's Jobs tab to browse job offers and apply for the job.
  4. Search features. You can easily search for people, jobs, companies, groups, universities and more with the bar at the top of the webpage and even use advanced filters.
It's ease of use
  1. Easy to navigate posting tools, example: Share an update, Upload a photo, Write an article.
  2. Adding contacts with your email. You can add contacts using their email. This can be done automatically if you chose to in the "People You May Know" tab.
  3. Relatively easy to get to the settings menu, allowing you to change privacy settings such as editing your public profile to see how your profile appears to others.