The concept of LinkedIn is simple. Friends connect with one another through a network of job recruiters and career opportunities in almost any profession.
You ever fill out an application and have trouble completing the section where you are asked to list referrals? Well, this is the beauty of joining the LinkedIn network. Your referrals are built as you connect with your friends. Once you are connected with friends on LinkedIn whenever a recruiter or the company of a friend is looking for a candidate to fill an opening the connected friends of the person working for that company will have the opportunity of being alerted shall the opening match the skills listed in the connected friend’s LinkedIn profile. So if your connected friend Alec Simon whom you went to elementary school with works at Google whenever Google posts an opening on LinkedIn that match the skills listed in your profile you will receive an alert about a new job opening at Google and have the ability to apply. Since you are connected to Alec you have an internal referral which often times puts you ahead of other candidates with matching skills seeking to fill that position.
The LinkedIn community is a professional one. You will find that most members have a professional head shot for their profile photo. LinkedIn provides opportunities in various fields ranging from janitor all the way fortune 500 company CEO.
So if you are seriously seeking employment or employers LinkedIn has served as the #1 online job recruiting resource for years and I’m sure it will only get better with time.