With over 41 million professionals, in 170 industries across 200 countries LinkedIn is the world’s largest social network.
So how does a Job Seeker stand out from the millions of other users?
Undertake Shannon Russo’s 5 Steps to complete your LinkedIn profile.

Make your email visible to all
Create an easy to search public profile
Add your websites to showcase your work
Create an interesting header
Update your status each week

I would add a sixth suggestion, make sure you have over 10 connections. Why 10? Research by LinkedIn has found that once you have over 10 Recruiters and …

An interesting issue is starting to brew for job seekers, where does one store their online professional profile? For most people they would say LinkedIn, or for the more technically minded maybe a personal web site along the lines of http://yourname.com.
But with the launch of Facebook’s personalised URLs does this mean Facebook could become your online profile?
At Jobseekr our recommendation is no. Keep a professional and a personal profile. Other than the simple Facebook is more a personal tool there is key reason to not use Facebook.
Googlejuice!
Facebook is a walled …

I was talking to a job seeker the other day who commented on they needed to know how to find employers who used certain software within their business operations. 
So my suggestion, conduct research on LinkedIn. (Note: I am excluding your existing network and job postings.)
Why?
Well you can see which companies to approach as part of a cold calling process but more importantly find a potential contact who can introduce you to the organisation. Remember many roles are filled through word of mouth.
Here’s how.
Let’s say the software in question was SAP.

Conduct …

Now that the supply and demand equation has definitely tilted in favour of the employer for most jobs and recruiters are faced with the problem of digital information overload. Recruiters have turned to evaluating the social footprint of a potential candidate before contacting them ( great post by @BINC on mashable about your social footprint here ).  Boris talks about what recruiters and search consultants are evaluating, I thought it would be helpful to the job seeker if I elaborated on how to create the right social footprint with some …