Haveo · Networking when you need a job
How to network on LinkedIn
Three things, in this order: make your profile say what you actually do, comment usefully where your field talks, and send few specific messages. Most people do only the third, which is why it does not work for them.
First, be findable and legible
Your headline should say what you do, not your job title. "I build booking systems for clinics" is searchable and human; "Senior Engineer II" is neither.
The About section is the one people read before deciding whether to reply to you. Three short paragraphs in plain words beats a list of technologies.
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Second, be useful in public
A specific, helpful comment on someone's post is read by their whole audience and costs you two minutes. It is by far the highest return per unit of effort on the platform.
Posting your own work is better but slower. Commenting well for a month is the cheapest way to become a name people recognize.
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Third, and only third, message people
Few and specific. One line proving you know their work, one line on you, one question they can answer quickly.
The order matters: a message from someone whose comments they have seen is a different object from a message out of nowhere.
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What to stop doing
Connection requests with no note, automated anything, asking to "pick your brain", congratulating strangers on work anniversaries.
All of them are volume tactics, and volume is what trained everyone to ignore this kind of message in the first place.
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It compounds slowly
Nothing happens for two months and then people start replying because they half recognize you. That lag is normal and it is the reason most people quit at week three.
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Rehearse it before you walk in.
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