Using LinkedIn to Stand out in Your Current Role

On today´s episode of Professional Success Podcast, your host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli, a Master Certified Career Coach, Recruiter, and Talent Development Leader, shares a few tips on using LinkedIn to stand out in your current role. She talks about some strategies you can use to stand out on LinkedIn all from the comfort of your virtual office.

Episode Highlights:

• If you want to understand the power of LinkedIn, you want to use 5 to 10 minutes to spot industry, shifting trends, and insights from leading thinkers and institutions.

• Sheila recalls when she made a career change, she was motivated to impress, but there was a lack of confidence in her instincts and ideas.

• The last tip Sheila gives is to be a Brand Ambassador and how to help your company stand out.

3 Key Points:

1. The next time you're on LinkedIn, pull yourself away from the non-interesting feed, and focus instead on curating the content you see. Choose people thinkers, business leaders, institutions, and hashtags that you like to follow.

2. LinkedIn groups are a forum for participating in hot topical conversations. You can join groups based on almost any affinity, can think of the school you attended, past employers, industry, geography, interests, and many more.

3. Putting your company on the map by highlighting its achievements is another way to be noticed or recognized at work. Consider where you can highlight work that you or your company is doing that contributes to the conversations shared by big thinkers in your industry.

Tweetable Quotes:

• “You can use LinkedIn to spot insights and trends.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli

• “What you're doing is what your organization's doing.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli

• “Once you're in a group, it’s a great place to start, or participate in conversations.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli

• “The second tip is to learn and share best practices yourself.” - Sheila Boysen–Rotelli

Resources Mentioned:

• Sheila Boysen-Rotelli: Website Podcast