LinkedIn: A Professional Outlook

LinkedIn: A Professional Outlook

In my opinion, LinkedIn is very professional networking site and a place for people to build their careers. Through LinkedIn you are allowed to create a professional profile and basically summarize all of your qualifying skills for businesses, employers, and companies to see worldwide. I really admire LinkedIn social media platform because it a way to market and take full advantage of the many sections that will full define your professional skill for future career opportunities.

While creating a LinkedIn profile users are allowed to take full advantage of various sections that include:

•        Personal Picture
•     Work Experience (Past/Present)
•       Skills & Expertise
•       Volunteer Services and Supportive Causes
•       Projects
•     Personal Summaries
•      Recommendations

Being able to add/fill out these sections on your page make me think about filling out job applications and having a job interview conducted. The great thing about your skills being added to the page, people are now able to endorse you and share your LinkedIn profile with others. Personally, creating my LinkedIn page for employers and users to visit saves me a lot of time on sending companies paper copies of my resume because they can refer to my professional page immediately.

According to The 2013 LinkedIn Marketing Guide, it discusses how LinkedIn is a great network for businesses to increase traffic and leads into their companies. One key component for businesses having successful LinkedIn’s is the ability to create a group that targets customers and users interest. This also allows groups to make announcements of special events, seminars  and etc. through email regularly just like having an actual mailing list.

I see how LinkedIn allows for great connections to be made between companies and people. These connections call ultimately lead to much greater opportunities for users as wells as companies. Even a nonprofit organization can join LinkedIn and utilize the many different sections to find volunteers and even a faster hiring process.

Suburban Health Organization has a great overview on the company description. It includes their mission statement, goals, specialties, and even there primary industry. All of these are very important to health organization and LinkedIn allows the company to be truthful about them.This organization is composed of central Indiana hospitals that work together to promote quality, efficiency and patient access in the many communities they serve. This medium has a strong connection between Indiana people and surrounding hospitals owners such as:

•      Hancock Regional Hospital
•     Hendricks Regional Health
•     Henry County Hospital
•     Johnson Memorial Hospital
•     Major Hospital
•     Riverview Hospital
•      Rush Memorial Hospital
•      St. Vincent Health Inc.,
•      Community Westview Hospital
•      Witham Health Services

Through LinkedIn this health organization was able to create physician recruitment, management of care contracts, captive insurance companies, strength and a diversity of services that will help make their hospitals and physicians one of the leading provider networks in central Indiana for users to learn more about. Although this company is a private industry it includes 11-50 employees to provide adequate services to others and continues to grow daily in their professional existence

I believe LinkedIn is an abundant opportunity for all organizations to be successful and create connections to people all across the world that will help build their companies. This professional site is a great marketing tool or companies to get the word out about the organization itself and a way to get the best employees available by continuing to use LinkedIn for their companies’ success. I enjoyed exploring the LinkedIn social media platform and creating my professional profile for future employers to see.