How to Network and Use LinkedIn to Find a Job 2021 (New Grad)

Part 3 of a New Graduate’s Guide to Becoming a Data/Business Analyst

Contents

Using LinkedIn — How to make your profile
Post on LinkedIn, a lot.
Use your alumni network
Informational interviews and how to do them effectively

This is Part 3 of a New Graduate’s Guide to Becoming a Business/Data Analyst.

Use LinkedIn

This is one of the pieces of advice that any half-decent article about finding a job includes, but I cannot emphasize it enough: Use LinkedIn.

Why?
1. Your LinkedIn page is almost always the first impression that a potential employer or networking contact gets of you.

• I did not initially believe this, but seriously, look: if you do an internet search for ‘Eliana Grosof’, my LinkedIn page will be either the first or second result.
• Even if your name is John Smith, the first thing an employer or networking contact will do upon receipt of your application or message is to search for you on LinkedIn. How do I know this? Most of the people I spoke with in my initial HR screenings casually brought up my LinkedIn profile.

2. It will connect you to people that can help you find a job.

Okay, so what is LinkedIn?