#Adventures of @DustyCPollyD: Finding a J.O.B.

#TalkNerdyToMeLover’s Polly Dixon

Holy Crap. I forgot about the power of LinkedIn.  Truth be told, I’m not the best user of it. In fact, I haven’t paid attention to it in over a year or so. However, I’m in the market for a new job so I spent some time in and around the space yesterday trying to make myself look much more professional than I am. I updated my profile, added some connections, added a professional picture  (no sunglasses, sighhhh)  and BOOM:

**I received a message from a former law school peer saying hello, reconnecting and doing some name-dropping of some big whigs in town! Amazing. I didn’t even ask for it. I just “linked-in” with him.

**I realized that several of my friends have connections to people I am submitting my resume to! Amazing. Now my friends have offered to introduce me to those people.

All good things! And then, on a creepy stalker note – I saw my EX (like hurt me so bad, I am still messed over it almost 2 years later because we were supposed to be married and he left me for my friend, hurt me so bad EX) pop up into “People I May Know” due to our many connections. Of course, curiousity killed the cat: I looked. Come to find out, he lost his job last year (not that I’m gloating because god knows that this economy is awful) and has now relocated from Florida to another city. And that city is Biloxi, Mississippi. I can’t help but congratulate myself on all that I’ve done and all that he has not.

Okay but really, my point of this entry is seriously guys…do the Linked In thing. You have no idea the connections that could be out there and the people you may know that know people you NEED to be introduced to. I’m so excited about my newfound interest in Linked In.

#kthxbye

Comments

[Dave D]

Where is my shoutout?