Using LinkedIn as a part of your job search can involve way more than just perusing the opening listings on the site’s jobs page. Your existing LinkedIn network also serves as a valuable resource to help you find a job when you’re unemployed or looking to leave your current position.

To maximize on your LinkedIn contacts, just follow these easy tips.

• Update your profile. If you recently lost your job, make sure you change your profile to reflect this. When LinkedIn sends out its contact update email that week, your network will be informed about your change in job status. As a result, colleagues and friends may contact you with opportunities.
• Ask for introductions. Take a look at the networks for each of your contacts and see whom they know. Look for recruiters, HR personnel and business owners and executives at companies in fields related to your occupation. When you spot people whom you want to meet, message your contact and ask them to send an introduction on your behalf. Then, follow up by messaging the person and requesting a meeting.
• Find connections. If there’s a company that you’d love to get an interview at, conduct a search for its name and look at the company page. You’ll be able to see the employees of the company with whom you have connections. By using your network for introductions, you can meet these individuals and get your foot in the door.

If you’ve never used LinkedIn before, don’t fret. The social media site has search tools to help you quickly locate people you know and start forming a network.

You can even link your other social media accounts and email address to LinkedIn to spot people that you know, meaning you’ll quickly be ready to put your network to use for finding a job.

For more information on using Linked In for Job Search, download the Gateway Guide.

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Gateway consultants know that redundancy is much more than a process. Redundancy can be seen as both a threat and an opportunity. Depending on your own circumstances it can be something you seek or something you avoid. Whatever your preference redundancy is a process that can be managed to ensure the best outcome for you.

Find out more about other views on redundancy by visiting the Gateway Careers discussion group on Linked In. There’s discussion on whether redundancy is an opportunity in these economic conditions, the importance of personal presentation in interviews, CV writing and much more.

The latest Gateway newsletter includes Top Ten Tips about redundancy from Just Employment employment law partner Geoff Bignell.

We’re also running free webinars on how to transform your redundancy. Visit the website for free tips and free webinars.

If you have been made redundant, it doesn’t matter whether you wanted it to happen or not, you will need to make adjustments. Your redundancy could be your greatest opportunity.

We understand. We’ve helped people who are about to be made redundant, people who have been redundant for a while and people who may be facing redundancy too. We know it’s not easy to look at it as an opportunity –and we know that even if you do see it as an opportunity  it can still be difficult to turn that into something that’s right for you.

We’ve designed a series of resources to help you transform your redundancy into your greatest opportunity. Tip sheets, webinars, workshops, even a one-to-one coaching programme.

If you’re facing redundancy or you know someone who is, then complete the Gateway enquiry form and take the first step to ‘transform redundancy into opportunity.

The shock of Redundancy and losing a job even when it’s been foreseen shouldn’t be underestimated. It’s a major life change and with the pressure to pay the bills and find a new job it can be all too easy to focus on ‘find a job’ and forget that redundancy can also be an opportunity.

Gateway career consultants have expert experience helping people facing redundancy turn that around into a positive transformation. Sometimes that means finding a new job in the field (understanding the hidden job market can be key here) sometimes that means changing career completely, sometimes it means self-employment and sometimes it means very different things – it all depends on the individual.

If you know someone who is:

• Worried about being laid off
• Scared they won’t be able to find another job
• Struggling with deciding whether to take a voluntary package

Then read more about how the Transform Your Redundancy workshops will help.