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As of this writing, there are over 55 million people registered on LinkedIn.  Clearly, LinkedIn offers significant potential to help in many ways for your job search.

What are you the specific benefits you are looking for in leveraging LinkedIn for your search? Here are some ideas.

• Exhibit my expertise
• Build new relationships
• Reconnect with existing relationships
• Permission based communication
• Create more exposure to my brand
• Effectively communicate
• Research tool
• A web presence
• Find “Hidden” Job Opportunities

It may help you to rank these in terms of their priority to you.

After you do that, watch this video as it helps highlight the path you should consider in finding your next job.