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There are hundreds of legal jobs, even though many people think only of judges and lawyers when they think of the legal profession. The law is an exciting and rewarding field in which to work, and no matter what your talents and skills are, you’re likely to find an occupation that suits you well.

Jobs Act autonomi: tutte le nuove tuteleOne interesting legal job is that of a trial consultant. This is a professional whose job it is to advise a lawyer which potential jurors to try to get on the jury for a particular case. This might sound like an inexact judgment to make, but trial consultants use all sorts of sociological, psychological and technological tools in analyzing the background of a particular juror and deciding whether or not he or she is likely to decide in a lawyer’s favor given the facts of a particular case. (There was even a John Grisham novel that revolved around this particular occupation.)

Then there’s the position of legal nurse consultant, a position most people have probably never even heard of. Legal nurse consultants are registered nurses who provide background information and advice for cases involving medical issues. Believe it or not, legal nurse consultants can make upwards of two-hundred dollars an hour, and this is a career-or side career, as many nurses do this kind of work in addition to their regular practices-that’s really starting to take off. The practical knowledge that attorneys can glean from legal nurse consultants can mean the difference between a win and a loss in court.

The court reporter, by contrast, is a position that most people are familiar with. This was a job once called “stenographer” (it’s still called that, by the way, in some places) and was once held predominantly by women. Court reporters create written records of every word spoken during a trial or other court proceedings. Aided by new technologies, court reporters can record up to two hundred words a minute in many cases. And there is a real shortage of court reporters nowadays, which means there are plenty of job openings, wobb employers generous benefits packages, and plenty of vacation time available to those who enter into this profession. Some court reporters even make over a hundred thousand dollars a year.

There are also the jobs of paralegals and legal researchers to consider. The duties of these two kinds of professionals often intersect, but both provide crucial help to lawyers. Paralegals and legal researchers draw up legal documents and memos, research past legal cases that pertain to current cases and help lawyers write their presentations to juries. Both of these jobs require patience, ingenuity, hard work, long hours and self-motivation.

No matter what kind of job you have in the legal world, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you’re helping justice get served. Every day will involve new people to meet and new challenges to be solved. You won’t get bored!

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Several years ago, I stayed for 3 nights at the Courtyard Bogota Airport for a business trip.

Jan 21, 20, 9:17 am

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Relax be happy and dont think too much. New contacts around the world are always good.

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Several years ago, I stayed for 3 nights at the Courtyard Bogota Airport for a business trip.

Today, I got an invitation to connect on LinkedIn from someone I don’t know. I’m in sales, so I typically check to see if the person is someone I might do business with in the future. The woman is from Bogota, Colombia, and the only thing I can see that we have in common is that she was a reservation agent at the Courtyard Bogota Airport from June, 2016 – July, 2017. That seems to be about the right time frame for the business trip I took to Bogota. I am a straight woman, and we didn’t hook up or anything like that. I don’t remember speaking to or meeting her at all.

This whole thing just strikes me as odd! Anyone else have a reservations or front desk agent contact you like this years later? If she kept my personal information from that stay, it’s pretty creepy! BTW, I ignored the invitation.

I think it’s more of Linkedins creepy algorithms on who it suggests to connect with and the front desk agent accidentally clicking to connect with you or wobb not understanding how Linkedin works. I’ve seen very random people in my suggestions that a former brief acquaintances that I’ve never had a professional relationship with. I’ve had two or three front desk people request to connect with me in the past from hotels I frequent. Kind of odd but whatever.

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Jan 21, 20, 9:36 am

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I have had hotel personnel attempt to connect with me on LinkedIn, but it is usually a manager or someone with whom I interacted a lot over the course of several stays. Never years later.

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It’s also a former employee of the hotel. This does raise the question of whether she took guest names and contact information with her when she quit or was fired.

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It’s also a former employee of the hotel. This does raise the question of whether she took guest names and contact information with her when she quit or was fired.

Excellent point.

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I think it’s more of Linkedins creepy algorithms on who it suggests to connect with and the front desk agent accidentally clicking to connect with you or not understanding how Linkedin works. I’ve seen very random people in my suggestions that a former brief acquaintances that I’ve never had a professional relationship with. I’ve had two or three front desk people request to connect with me in the past from hotels I frequent. Kind of odd but whatever.

This was my thought… not to mention if you link it to your email history it will try to connect with anyone you’ve ever sent an email to.

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This was my thought… not to mention if you link it to your email history it will try to connect with anyone you’ve ever sent an email to.

I don’t allow any of my social media accounts access to my contacts or email accounts. I also don’t have any LinkedIn 1st or 2nd connections in common with the woman. I think she took customer information from the hotel when she left.

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There are few people I need to network with more than former hotel staff from Bogota. I vote click Accept and see what happens!

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Many social networks have a tool that scrapes your e-mail contacts and “imports” them as invitations. The most likely explanation here is this agent e-mailed you a welcome message, as many hotels do for elites; this caused your contact information to be automatically saved in their address book by their e-mail application, and then when they signed up for LinkedIn that information was matched to your profile.

This obviously isn’t a best practice, but it’s not uncommon; I’ve even gotten macro viruses e-mailed from airlines in the past that I’ve corresponded with. For an emerging market hotel, I suspect more of the CRM is done manually than you might expect, and it’s not hard to imagine an employee syncing a mobile device and then retaining that contact list when they left the position for their next role.

To avoid this sort of thing happening, I like to give my social networks alternate e-mail addresses and phone numbers so my profile can’t be correlated directly back to my real world identity. But for someone in sales, I can certainly appreciate the need to appear more visible to your clients…

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Was it a personal invitation or just a generic one? If it was generic this sounds much more like she activated some auto-connect feature from linkedin that searched through her emails for potential contacts. As others have noted, this generates some really odd invitations.

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Many social networks have a tool that scrapes your e-mail contacts and “imports” them as invitations. The most likely explanation here is this agent e-mailed you a welcome message, as many hotels do for elites; this caused your contact information to be automatically saved in their address book by their e-mail application, and then when they signed up for LinkedIn that information was matched to your profile.

As I mentioned earlier, LinkedIn doesn’t have access to my contacts or my email. So it would be impossible for that to happen. I am one of those people that sets strict privacy settings on my social media accounts. I don’t want my business contacts to get spammed because my contacts got mined. It’s not a good way to conduct business. LinkedIn frequently asks me to link my contacts with their site, and I never do.

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Was it a personal invitation or just a generic one? If it was generic this sounds much more like she activated some auto-connect feature from linkedin that searched through her emails for potential contacts. As others have noted, this generates some really odd invitations.

If she didn’t write you a personal message, I would be surprised that she would steal customer information from the hotel just to send random linkedin invites to everyone.

The only way she could have gotten my email would have been to take it from my Marriott reservation. Since she no longer works there, any work email address she might have had should have been disabled years ago. And I don’t email personal accounts for Marriott employees while staying at a hotel. BTW, I think this is really weird as well. That’s why I posted about it.

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I would guess it’s a weird linkedin algorithm, I get suggestions of people not in my immediate network often, and sometimes see people from five or ten years ago that I had a glancing passing knowledge of. I like the idea that she sent you a welcome email three years ago, and that email was used as a connection or a contact point.

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It doesnt make sense that someone stealing personal information would reach out directly to a victim – for what purpose? Most likely a bot, crawler, or some sort of algorithm using scraped data.

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I am connected to a ton of hotel workers on LinkedIn. It is nice as I keep in touch with them – when we meet at same or different property it is like a reunion I saw someone last month that I hadn’t seen since 2011 but we had been connected on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn is for professional networking and hotel stays are part of that.

My guess this was a weird algorithm thing. I opened a Facebook account a few months ago. and my 7th grade crush popped up. I hadn’t thought of her in 30 years, pre internet. it scared heck out of me how much they scrape

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LinkedIn is a professional social networking website, meaning that you use this website to connect with current and former colleagues, classmates, and organizations. For an individual using LinkedIn is a great way to look for a new job or business opportunity. You can also use LinkedIn to gather information from industry experts. For an organization LinkedIn is not only a free way to advertise your services but a useful tool in recruiting new employees or collaborators as well.

An example of how to successfully use LinkedIn…

Meet Scott McKeen. Scott was laid off from his job as a field service engineer during the deepest part of the recession and he was one of many who could not seem to find another job in his profession. As a field service engineer his job entailed going into other technology companies to install and repair equipment. He used LinkedIn to keep in touch with colleagues and with many key people inside the organizations he routinely did work for. After months of being unemployed, he noticed that many of his counterparts in other regions of the country who had also been laid off were starting their own businesses. Not finding any employment opportunities on the horizon he decided to follow suit. He used LinkedIn to contact the colleagues who had already gone through the process of starting their own business to get a better understanding of what needed to be done. Once Scott got McKeen Services and Consulting up and running, he then used some of his LinkedIn connections inside the organizations he had worked for to get the word out about his new business.

Once you’re on LinkedIn make sure to…

Complete Your Profile and Keep It Up To Date: LinkedIn is a way to establish your professional profile online. Not completing or updating your LinkedIn account is a lot like putting out an unfinished resume. As a business owner or recruiter it’s even more important. Make sure to include any and all relevant information about yourself or your business to make sure to get the most out of this valuable resource.

Add Links To Your Website: One of the great things about LinkedIn is the fact that search engines like Google will index the profile you create. Adding links to your website will not only create another way for people to find you or your business, it will increase your website’s page rank as well. This could help move your website closer to the top of search results. Make sure to be descriptive with these links by adding important keywords that accurately describe what it is that you do.

Make Connections: LinkedIn works hard to prevent spam and maintain a trusted network by only allowing members to make initial connections with people they already know. To make a direct connection with someone, you need to say how you know this person by either selecting “friend” or by providing either an email address, the name of a business you both worked for or the school you both attended. If you try to make a connection with someone who claims not to know you, LinkedIn will penalize you by making you enter an email address for every connection request.

The first place you will want to start is with your email address book. Once you are logged in to your LinkedIn account, you can do this by clicking on the Add Connections link in the upper right-hand corner of the page. If you have a Yahoo, Gmail, AOL or Hotmail account, you can simply import your address book in a few easy steps. If not you can manually add in email addresses. It will automatically send a connection request to anyone on that list who is already a LinkedIn member. People who are not already on LinkedIn will receive an email asking them to join you.

Although LinkedIn discourages you from making direct connections with strangers, it is possible to meet new people. You do this by getting in touch with your 2nd and 3rd degree connections. 2nd degree connections are people your connections are connected with and 3rd degree connections are the people your 2nd degree connections are connected with. To make new connections this way, go to Connections My Connections. Select one of your connections then click on the number indicating how many connections the have. It will bring up a list of all their connections. To make a new connection from this list rollover the person’s name then click Get Introduced. When you do this, it’s a good idea to write them a personable message introducing yourself and letting them know why you would make a good connection.

Join or Create Groups: Like many other social networking websites LinkedIn offers the ability to join and create networking groups. By joining a group you have access to news and job postings within the group. You can also participate in discussions with other members. This could be another good way to make more connections. You may also want to start your own networking group. This might create an opportunity to be seen as an authority in your field of expertise.

Post Job Opportunities Due to the vast amount of job seekers in the market right now, posting an opening on a big job website like monster.com can result in an overwhelming amount of applicants, many of which may not even be qualified for the job. You may find that using LinkedIn can be a better option. You can post a job on LinkedIn by selecting Jobs then Post A Job, though this service does come at a cost. If you don’t want to pay the money or you want to be a bit more selective, there are ways for you to use your network of connections to find job applicants. One way is to ask for referrals. Someone you are connected to may know the perfect person for the position. You also may be in touch with former colleagues who also make a good fit. Additionally, LinkedIn allows you to look for people with specific qualifications through a keyword search. From there you could put together a list of possible candidates.

Promoting Your LinkedIn Account: First, make sure to add as many connections as you can to increase your visibility. Then create a link to your LinkedIn account from your website. You can promote your LinkedIn account the same way you might promote your website by adding the link to your business cards, email signature and other business materials.

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be/w7wobbsnm58 小提示:直接在b站视频地址\Is it risky to submit a resume to someone you know from someone that you do not know. Duh! Of course that is risky, but it does not mean that the candidate is not viable. No, it just means that the person asked to submit is not sure. However, there are things the job seeker can do to overcome the hesitancy.

LinkedIn is not the best for what is essentially a blind response to a job posting. You talk about having someone present your resume and you do not know the person. Another perspective is asking someone you do not know to present your resume; how do you know what the relationship is between that person and your target. It can be just as risky.

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In fact you should read my ezine article on Networking Referrals and Recommendations for more insights on questions to ask if you are requesting a referral, asked to give a referral, or are the target of a referral.

LinkedIn offers many tools for the job seeker beyond the process of getting a referral.

Here are things the job seeker should be doing to establish credibility, reliability, and trust.

1. Get referrals from previous supervisors and managers, co-workers, and subordinates. You want these coming from all of your previous experiences so that they tell a story of accomplishment.

2. Referrals and recommendations should have meat to them. Do not get the “Tom is a great guy and I would not hesitate to hire him or work with him in the future.” This is balderdash! What did Tom do and how did Tom contribute; that is what you need in a good recommendation and you want those comments throughout your work experience. If you cannot get it, forget it!

3. Complete your profile, let it tell your story. Do not hide things, do not leave things out, make it talk and work for you. This is a sales piece, one of your brochures.

4. Use keywords and make sure that you use them consistently. If you are looking for a Sales Manager position and you were a sales manager; incorporate Sales Manager into your current and previous position titles. Put it into your summary as well. When a recruiter goes searching for a Sales Manager you want to show up at the top of the list. Do not put sales manager for one entry, manager of sales for another, and something else for the third; BE CONSISTENT!

5. Recruiters and hiring managers are searching LinkedIn daily. You want to be FOUND! You also want to tell your story such that those recruiters and hiring managers are pursuing you. Put yourself in the driver’s seat.

6. Get lots of connections. If someone invites you to connect; DO IT! It is not that you are going to necessarily create some great relationship with these individuals, but it expands your sphere of influence for the searches. The more people you connect with the more second level connections you will have. The larger the network, the bigger your net to become one of the search results. You never know from which connection your next opportunity will develop.

7. Join groups that are relevant to where the people that will hire you, hang out. Do not spend your time where the people are all your peers or subordinates. Be predatory in the process. If you know someone who hires for jobs your position find out what groups that individual is in and go there; immediately!

LinkedIn only works for those who work at it! You must be comprehensive and proactive.

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Interest in LinkedIn from lawyers, accountants and wobb other professionals has taken off recently. And it makes a lot of sense. Despite the hype over Twitter and Facebook, LinkedIn offers the greatest opportunity for professionals to make connections that lead to winning new business.

Unfortunately, many professionals fail to use LinkedIn to it’s full potential. Their profile is either non-existent, or not attractive to potential clients. And they don’t use it’s great ability to form new, valuable connections.

Here are the top 10 tips for using LinkedIn to get clients and win new business.

1. Make your profile client focused

The first thing people do when they join LinkedIn is to create a profile. And since LinkedIn has slots for your previous job roles, qualifications, etc. there’s an almost overwhelming temptation to make your profile look like your CV.

Resist that temptation.

When you first meet potential clients you don’t rattle off a huge list of companies you’ve worked for and the responsibilities you’ve had – that would bore the pants off them. Most effective introductions focus on who you help, and what problems you help them solve or results you help them achieve. Then if asked more, you say a bit more about what you do – and give a little “backstory” as to why you are uniquely qualified to help.

LinkedIn is for making connections – and for the majority of professionals that means clients and business partners, not recruiters.

You need to design your profile to have the impact you want on those connections. Treat it like your introduction at a networking meeting.

Despite the ease of just uploading your CV details, most potential clients and business partners won’t get value from seeing the details of your previous roles. Job titles, main achievements and company names can help give you credibility (and make it easier for others to find you) – but don’t include all the details you would on a job application.

2. Get connecting – but…

LinkedIn works on connections. The most powerful use of LinkedIn is to find new clients and business partners through the search function or directly via your contacts connections. The more direct connections you have, the more opportunities you have to connect. I still see people who’ve made all the effort to set up their LinkedIn profile – but who have so few connections that they don’t get any benefit.

The LinkedIn toolbar for Outlook provides an easy way of inviting the your Outlook contacts and people you email regularly to connect with you.

However, there’s a catch…

3…Choose your connection strategy carefully

There are two very different strategies to connecting on LinkedIn: “Open Networking” and “Trusted Partner Networking”.

In business networking generally, the value you get from your network is a product of the size of your network, and your ability to “convert” connections into productive business (work, a referral, etc.). You can grow the value of your network by getting more connections, or deepening the strength of each connection (getting to know people better, helping them out, etc.)

On LinkedIn, one strategy for getting value is to be an “Open Networker” or LION (LinkedIn Open Networker). Open Networkers focus on growing the size of their network by initiating and accepting connection requests from as many people as possible. Open Networkers typically have many thousands of connections. This means that when they search for useful relationships (potential clients or business partners), for example looking for contacts in specific companies, or geographies or with specific interests or job titles – they are much more likely to find them (exponentially more likely because of the way LinkedIn connections work).

The downside of this strategy is that with thousands of connections you don’t know each one very well, if at all. You’re essentially using LinkedIn as a giant Rolodex or telephone directory rather than as a way of making deeper connections. That’s neither good nor bad – it just means that if you find someone you want to connect with through one of these “shallow” connections, you’re unlikely to get a strong referral to them.

The other strategy is to have fewer but deeper connections – a “Trusted Partner” strategy. Here you only connect to people you already know and trust. Most likely from face-to-face interaction, but possibly from online interaction too.

With this strategy you have less chance of finding someone via a search because you have less connections. But if you do find someone, it will be through someone who knows and trusts you – and they will be able to give a strong referral to you and put you in touch with the person you’re interested in connecting with.

In my experience, this Trusted Partner strategy works best for most professionals. It mirrors the way we develop trusted relationships in the real world. And it reduces the risk that your trusted connections will be spammed from other connections you barely know.

Both strategies can work, but you must be consistent. If you’re following a Trusted Partner strategy, you must only connect to people you really know & trust and turn down connections from people you don’t (Open Networkers for example).

4. Use Search to find potential clients and business partners

Many people get going on LinkedIn but fail to use it to help their business. One of the most effective ways to gain business value from LinkedIn is to find potential clients and business partners.One of the things I do in my consulting practice is to help clients get more referrals for their business. And one of the key things I teach them is to be very specific in who they ask to be referred to.

LinkedIn allows the ultimate in specificity. You can search for exactly who you want to be referred to – by company, by geography, by name, by job title, etc. And you can search across your entire network at once. Or you can look at the contact list of an individual to see if there’s anyone you’d like to be connected to.

Once you’ve identified people you’d like to be introduced or referred to, rather than try to connect them directly, give your mutual connection a call and ask them if they can connect you. That’s much more polite than going directly, and it’s much more likely to be successful.

5. Give testimonials to get them

Testimonials are very helpful to have on your profile. They’re a clear indication of the quality of your work and the relationships you form.

But begging for a testimonial isn’t a great strategy.

If you want to get testimonials, use LinkedIn to give them to people you’ve worked with and who have done a great job for you. LinkedIn will show them the testimonial to approve, then ask them if they want to reciprocate. They probably will.

6. Have a helpful headline

When people find you in searches on LinkedIn, or when you contribute to Group discussions or in the LinkedIn Answers Q&A section; the initial thing they see is a little box with your name, photo, and your “headline”.What most people have in their headline is their job title. “Owner at XYZ Company” or “Principal consultant at ABC Ltd”. By default, unless you change it manually, LinkedIn takes the headline from your last job title.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t give people a clue as to whether you might be able to help them, or might be interesting to connect to.

You should treat your headline like your introduction when networking. Focus on what you can do to help people.

My headline, for example is “Helping Professional Services Firms Attract More Clients and Win More New Business”. It’s much more useful in telling people what I actually do than using an “official” job title like Managing Director. That will get more people to click through to my profile and maybe begin to interact with me.

You can edit your Headline via the Edit My Profile option.

7. Join LinkedIn Groups to connect and interact

LinkedIn groups are essentially discussion forums for specific interest groups. They allow you to find out the latest news, and to join in debates on topics of interest. You should be joining groups both of interest to you professionally, and the groups where your potential clients “hang out”.

The same is also true of the LinkedIn Q&A section. Post sensible answers or pose sensible questions and over time you’ll develop a reputation for knowing what you’re talking about.

But please, don’t spam the groups with constant offers for your services – or questions that are really thinly disguised promotional pieces. Many groups have become unusable because sellers fill up every discussion slot with adverts and real discussions are difficult to find.

Demonstrate your capabilities by being helpful and people will reach out to you.

8. Use Status Updates to subtly remind your contacts of what you do

LinkedIn status updates are a nice way of helping to stay top of mind with contacts. If you were to call or email all your contacts any time you did something small but interesting, it would quickly become seen as pushy or spammy. But updating your status is an non-intrusive way of getting a gentle reminder out.

Depending on their settings, your contacts will get a regular email with a summary of the status updates of their contacts. And they will see the updates on their LinkedIn homepage. Mostly it will just be “so and so updated their profile” type messages. So if your status update has something interesting in it (“Ian has just run a seminar on consultative selling skills”) it will remind them of the sort of thing you do and may even trigger them into action.

Recently, for example, I put up a status update saying I’d run a training course on Marketing for Consultants for the Institute of Business Consulting. That prompted one of my old colleagues to get back in touch and we came to an arrangement about sharing training material.

Using the ping.fm service allows you to update the status of other social networks like Facebook and Twitter simultaneously.

9. Watch others’ status updates to initiate contact

Keep an eye on status updates from others – it can be a good opportunity to get back in touch – especially if they’ve changed jobs or have set out on a new venture. Even small status changes can help give you something to start a conversation – the sort of smalltalk needed to keep dialogs and relationships going in between more meaty topics.

10. Proactively link others together who you think may benefit

Don’t wait for others to initiate a request to be linked up to your other contacts. Review your contact list regularly looking for ways to add value to them. One good way is to offer to link them up with potential clients or partners for them.It’s not super easy to do this using LinkedIn functionality – I find it’s easier just to email both and suggest they make the connection themselves.

The tips I’ve outlined are for professionals who want to use LinkedIn to help them grow their businesses and their careers through what is essentially the online equivalent of normal business networking.

It’s not the only way to use LinkedIn. For years I used it mainly to reconnect with old colleagues I’d lost touch with.