{"id":811,"date":"2010-07-18T16:43:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T23:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/?p=811"},"modified":"2010-07-18T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T23:43:19","slug":"using-linkedin-to-further-your-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/using-linkedin-to-further-your-career","title":{"rendered":"Using LinkedIn to further your career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Microsoft commissioned a study which asked hiring managers  how much they used the internet to check out prospective candidates. Here\u2019s a  couple of interesting results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>57% used professional and business networking sites (such as LinkedIn).<\/li>\n<li>98% used SOME internet resources to check out candidates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This tells you that you need to have a positive presence on the internet,  because your next boss is most likely going to check you out \u2013 perhaps even  before ever setting up an interview.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/workbloom.com\/blog\/job-search-tips\/using-linkedin-to-further-your-career\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read the rest on my Workbloom blog\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Microsoft commissioned a study which asked hiring managers how much they used the internet to check out prospective candidates. Here\u2019s a couple of interesting results: 57% used <a href=\"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/using-linkedin-to-further-your-career\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,7,29,10],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-carl","4":"post-811","6":"format-standard","7":"category-career","8":"post_tag-career-coaching","9":"post_tag-job-change","10":"post_tag-job-hunt","11":"post_tag-networking"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}