It's not about playing the suitor but about being the damsel, advises Harvard Business School's Mikolaj Jan Piskorski in his new book entitled, A Social Strategy: How We Profit From Social Media. It's all in how you play the LinkedIn courting game, however. That your profile is out there for recruiters to find and pay LinkedIn real money to contact you is your personal business. If your current boss sees that you're looking for new job, he or she will not advance your career and will probably even expedite your exit from the company.īut, in the era of online social networking, LinkedIn now makes it socially acceptable to promote your professional self without jeopardizing your current job and looking too desperate.Īfter all, if anyone asks why you're there, you can simply say you're networking.

If you appear too willing, they'll run screaming in the opposite direction. 5 Ways To Become The Belle Of The Job Recruiters BallĮmployment recruiters can smell desperation a mile away even through your computer's firewall.

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