Similar to a reference letter, a LinkedIn recommendation is a powerful marketing tool. Each recommendation provides you with a silent sales person telling the world about your skills, business savvy or other qualities you possess, which enhance your marketability. Hiring managers, decision makers and potential clients relish recommendations regarding a person they may be interested in hiring.
Many people scramble around LinkedIn asking associates for recommendations. The results are usually disappointing. So don't be surprised, if you do not receive as many recommendations as you expect by merely sending a invitation for one. People always do things for their reasons, never for your reasons.
Recognize a recommendation as a valuable commodity, people are cautious in providing. To get someone to willingly give you a recommendation, give him/her a reason. The best way to get a LinkedIn recommendation is to give a recommendation first. Then let LinkedIn do the selling for you. When a person receives a recommendation notification from LinkedIn, a prompt is also presented for that person to reciprocate with a recommendation.
This no different than in person networking. Power networkers are givers who receive the most dividends in being able to make withdrawals from the good will bank.
Many people scramble around LinkedIn asking associates for recommendations. The results are usually disappointing. So don't be surprised, if you do not receive as many recommendations as you expect by merely sending a invitation for one. People always do things for their reasons, never for your reasons.
Recognize a recommendation as a valuable commodity, people are cautious in providing. To get someone to willingly give you a recommendation, give him/her a reason. The best way to get a LinkedIn recommendation is to give a recommendation first. Then let LinkedIn do the selling for you. When a person receives a recommendation notification from LinkedIn, a prompt is also presented for that person to reciprocate with a recommendation.
This no different than in person networking. Power networkers are givers who receive the most dividends in being able to make withdrawals from the good will bank.
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