How to Find a Client or Get a Job With LinkedIn

As someone self-employed, the way you make money is by getting clients. In some ways, finding clients can be hard to do, but LinkedIn makes that chore easier. LinkedIn has a job section that can help you find clients. How?

Here are two ways LinkedIn can help:

• You can take advantage of connections inside the company you are interested in. This way you can let the connections know about you and they can refer you to their boss or the hiring manager.
• You can tap into a network of over 55 million professionals to find clients. Someone may know someone who could use your services.

What makes LinkedIn so good is they have a Jobs tab you can click on when you sign up, that will take you to a page, where you can find the work you are looking for.

Based on your profile, this jobs page will list jobs you may be interested in. Look around or use the Search for Jobs search tool near the top of the page to find work that fits a certain keyword you enter.

For instance, if you are looking for ghostwriting assignments, you would type in “ghostwriting” or “ghost writing” as the keywords. You can also do other type of searches including: Location, experience level, date posted, title, company, job function, and industry.

If the above methods do not appeal to you, you can always find jobs based on what your skills are. When you begin your search, if LinkedIn does not have any listings based on your keywords, they will look on the web for ads that match your keywords. For instance, when I typed in the keyword “ghostwriting” LinkedIn had no listings. So they searched on Simply Hired website and found about three listings.

The one good thing about LinkedIn, is that when you get results, and click on the lead, you not only get to see what the job is about, but you also see who in your network and work at the place. This way you can get in touch with that person or persons and request a recommendation to the hiring manager.

There are two different types of clients. One is someone who hires you are a self-employed person. You get to work on a project at your home. The second type of client is one where you work onsite as a contractor. You work under a 1099 form.

If you are the contractor looking for a company to work for, you can use LinkedIn for this purpose. LinkedIn provides job listings just like if you were self-employed. In fact, to LinkedIn, a job search is a job search, no matter whether you are self-employed or a contractor.