“I recently looked up people in my area that are in charge of corporate development at smaller middle market companies. I found someone that I was interested in meeting and looked at their profile on LinkedIn. I noticed that he was a 2nd degree of separation from a few people that I already knew. I contacted a close friend of mine who was one of these 2nd degrees of separation and asked if he could introduce me to this VP of corporate development at a local company.
The VP was contacted for me and we talked that day. We met up a week later and a position at the company was discussed during our first meeting. LinkedIn was the only way I could have known this person was out there, and without using the tool I would have no way of knowing that friends of mine knew the exact person I needed to talk to. LinkedIn is an invaluable tool.”
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