LinkedIn
If you worked at multiple places like I have, you would know what a chore it is to keep in touch with people and where they are working now. Invariably you will lose touch and if you are a bad communicator like me, relationships that you build up, tends to get diluted. A colleague at work showed me this really cool concept called LinkedIn and I wished I thought of it earlier.
Basically it is the same as any other social networking site. (think facebook, myspace etc) but for professionals and mainly geared towards IT professionals. Basically it allows you to
- Create an online resume of where you worked in the past and the roles you have undertaken
- Get your colleagues to recommend your work. How often do recruiters ask for referrals? See my point?
- Keep in touch with other colleagues who have moved on, so you can have a sticky beak at what they are doing now
- See if there is any common friends and colleagues between you guys.
- Get new jobs (Not sold on this yet but have to wait and see)
Do check it out..this is my linked in details