kav
Distinguished Member
I've been on LinkedIn for several years, but only started to make use of it recently. I currently live in Scotland, but over the last couple of years my wife and I have been discussing a move to Dorset. I've been tracking jobs there for over a year and only one has come up in my field (and even that was only peripherally related).
With that in mind, aside from combing the job sites, I figure I could start looking into people who already work in my field in Dorset and contact them directly regarding opportunities. However, I have no idea if that is the "done thing" with LinkedIn - if some stranger asked me to be friends on Facebook I would ignore them.
I tested the waters last night by requesting a connection with someone fairly senior in a role similar to what I do. He has accepted my connection so I suppose my next step would be to contact him and say "gizza job". However this is all relatively virgin territory for me so I have no idea if I am being extremely cheeky and inappropriate, or if this is just the way people use LinkedIn to progress their careers.
Any advice based on your experiences with it would be useful, thanks.
With that in mind, aside from combing the job sites, I figure I could start looking into people who already work in my field in Dorset and contact them directly regarding opportunities. However, I have no idea if that is the "done thing" with LinkedIn - if some stranger asked me to be friends on Facebook I would ignore them.
I tested the waters last night by requesting a connection with someone fairly senior in a role similar to what I do. He has accepted my connection so I suppose my next step would be to contact him and say "gizza job". However this is all relatively virgin territory for me so I have no idea if I am being extremely cheeky and inappropriate, or if this is just the way people use LinkedIn to progress their careers.
Any advice based on your experiences with it would be useful, thanks.