WHAT ARE LINKEDIN GROUPS?
LinkedIn Groups are best practices information hubs on LinkedIn extends the business for professionals in the same industry or common interests to connect, learn, and share content. They can use these networks to find answers, post and share or find jobs, make business contacts, and establish themselves as industry experts.
WHO LEADS LINKED IN GROUPS?
Most of these groups are volunteer lead organizations, a labor of love by the volunteers that help moderate the community to protect it's purpose, and provide the best networking solutions for the members they serve. Most groups will have a group or individual named that you can reach out to discuss your membership. Before joining a group, it is important to review the membership rules and what the group's primary purpose is.
Members that are not clear fits for the group take longer to process because they have to be manually vetted, by someone or a team of people that are doing this, in addition to their "day job" or "business".
Most of these groups are volunteer lead organizations, a labor of love by the volunteers that help moderate the community to protect it's purpose, and provide the best networking solutions for the members they serve. Most groups will have a group or individual named that you can reach out to discuss your membership. Before joining a group, it is important to review the membership rules and what the group's primary purpose is.
Members that are not clear fits for the group take longer to process because they have to be manually vetted, by someone or a team of people that are doing this, in addition to their "day job" or "business".
WHY JOIN IN LINKED IN GROUPS?
Members who are both student (receivers) and teacher (givers), realize that asking questions and sharing content that others are interested in, increases your chance of “connecting” with others that share your interest in a topic, business connection, or opportunity. The opportunity of networking through LinkedIn Groups with a person of industry influence is higher than randomly hitting “connect.”
People Participate in LinkedIn Groups for win win business networking. Many use groups to strengthen relationships, with your ultimate goal of connecting on and offline with Group members.
Members who are both student (receivers) and teacher (givers), realize that asking questions and sharing content that others are interested in, increases your chance of “connecting” with others that share your interest in a topic, business connection, or opportunity. The opportunity of networking through LinkedIn Groups with a person of industry influence is higher than randomly hitting “connect.”
People Participate in LinkedIn Groups for win win business networking. Many use groups to strengthen relationships, with your ultimate goal of connecting on and offline with Group members.
Are their Limits to Joining LinkedIn GROUPS
LinkedIn sets a Limit for LinkedIn Users to access 100 Groups. The leading reason Group membership is pending is that the Group Volunteer Team can not approve your access due to the LinkedIn Limitation. They try to notify members as to why they must reject the request, but some Volunteer teams do not have time to notify everyone personally because membership requests are so high. This blog post was in fact created for that purpose, to help people who might not even know that they are at the threshold. It is kind of a ceiling you do not know you have hit, until you ask a group manager why your membership is pending.
(2) LinkedIn Groups have their own requirements for membership. Not every group has membership requirements, however, the second largest reason for denial or delayed processing of a Group membership request is that of the purpose of the group. Read the groups "ABOUT" page for membership requirements.
Maintaining Purposeful LinkedIn Group Membership
The most common post COVID use case we have seen for maintaining purposeful linkedin membership is in the Global Recruiting Professionals Network. This is a group so very affected by COVID Business Requirements and Business Demands. This group exists to support these challenges. Because of it's name, it supports a huge volume of recruiters, but it also is host to a high volume of secondary requests that do not fit the purpose of use.
Global Recruiting Professionals purpose is to connect HR and Staffing related professionals to share best practices. It accepts requests from HR and Staffing Industry Professionals, but declines those whose profile do not fit the industry. It is NOT to be used for jobs posting and exists to help HR professionals:
- Recruiting
- Employment and Staffing
- Talent and Sourcing
- Human Resources
The Global Recruiting Professional's ABOUT page states the groups primary use, however post COVID unemployment has also created a flood of requests from people hoping to run into a CROWDED "virtual conference" and yell "HIRE ME".
~ While Global Recruiting Professionals is not the place, Jobs N Career Success Is!
Jobs n Career Success Networks was created to connect job seekers with Hiring Managers and Recruiting professionals. It exists for Job Listings, Career Articles, Employment Event Sharing and Professional Development Resources.
- Jobseekers, and Recent Graduates, or Laid off professionals NOT in HR and Staffing Industry are recommended to join this network.
- Sourcing and Staffing agencies who want to list jobs, need to join and list them in the Jobs N Career Network.
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