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With social media and the professional world intertwining more than ever, I am not surprised an app like LinkedIn has been created. LinkedIn is an app business professionals use to hire employees and promote their businesses.

As a business student here at ONU, I took a course called Career Planning. In this class we learned basic job searching skills like how to make a resume and cover letter, how to dress and how to interview. After learning these skills, we created LinkedIn profiles. After we created the profiles, we had to connect with professionals in our field. (Connecting is basically adding friends.)

Following this class, I have applied to multiple internships through LinkedIn. This process is so easy for both the business and the applicant. All I had to do to apply was upload my resume in the spot provided and all they have to do is put the resume in a system that scans for information. Although it makes it harder to get a job, businesses can really narrow down their applicants and get the people they really want.

I think an app that is dedicated to jobs is a great idea. Keeping up with social media trends can be hard right now because there are so many different kinds of it, but the creator of LinkedIn did a great job of creating something that is useful and different. I foresee LinkedIn becoming more and more popular and could eventually become the main way to get jobs, even if it is very intimidating to job seekers.
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  1. Alyson_HoffmanDecember 4, 2019 at 1:58 PM

    Hello,
    My new favorite business app is Linked In. I think it has so much to offer and the professionalism of it is great! I like being able to connect to the business side of my friends and family. I am glad that you were able to use Linked in to help you!
    Thanks for sharing,
    Alyson Hoffman

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  2. AbbyDecember 4, 2019 at 2:01 PM

    LinkedIn is such a useful app all of my friends have used it to get jobs and even my husband used it to find his job at ONU. I definitely plan on using LinkedIn when I start looking for jobs later down the road.

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  3. James McDougaldDecember 5, 2019 at 11:25 AM

    LinkedIn has been a great asset to use in my search for an internship. I also respect how seriously they take securing your information. This past week I was trying to log in and had messed up my password too many times that my account was suspended. Not only did I have to reset my password, but my verification went through an appeal case where I had to send in different forms of verification. It was a longer process than I expected but I feel better knowing my information will be kept safe there.

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