{"id":2180,"date":"2016-04-23T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T14:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2016-02-23T08:18:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T14:18:43","slug":"using-linkedin-to-help-others-find-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2180","title":{"rendered":"Using LinkedIn to Help Others Find Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like LinkedIn, I really do.  If you can get past the recruiters randomly spamming you (and yes, I know they are LinkedIn&#8217;s primary source of revenue), the professional network is quite powerful.  <\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garyvaynerchuk.com\/\">Gary Vaynerchuk<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanworkplace.com\/\">Liz Ryan<\/a> say, you don&#8217;t have any excuses for not finding the right person to reach out to with your sales pitch or job interest.<\/p>\n<p>But recently I was contacted by a former colleague who noticed that I had &#8220;liked&#8221; one of my other contacts&#8217; job posting.  He asked a few questions, applied and interviewed, and got the job.  <a href=\"\/wordpress\/archives\/1728\">I love matching people up with jobs<\/a>, but this was easy.  <\/p>\n<p>My plan is to search LinkedIn periodically and &#8220;like&#8221; all job listings posted by former colleagues or other trusted sources, and hope this experience happens again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like LinkedIn, I really do. If you can get past the recruiters randomly spamming you (and yes, I know they are LinkedIn&#8217;s primary source of revenue), the professional network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}