Book Review: Let's Connect: Using LinkedIn to get ahead at work

LinkedIn is a helpful, serious and understated professional networking website that has currently over 22 million users. After you post your professional profile, LinkedIn finds friends & colleagues you may know through some clever data-mining. It has interesting features to build successful professional relationships.

When I was gifted the book "Let's Connect: Using LinkedIn to get ahead at work" by Ajay Jain, I was excited to read it expecting it to contain valuable secrets, tips & tricks for making the most of LinkedIn. Browsing through the 200+ paged book, I found it to be extremely verbose with spiel like "Enter Rolodex 2.0, or the world of social contact building"(pg. 53). The contents could have been compressed into one-third its size & you would miss nothing.

The book documents features that you could find in LinkedIn Help. It reiterates the advantages with countless LinkedIn user comments & testimonials (actual names are protected in some cases!?) and it is pure overkill. There are also chapters on the author's personal views & a wishlist.

At most, it may be useful to people who have not discovered LinkedIn yet than existing LinkedIn users.

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